News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A couple who admitted to trafficking methamphetamine in the community in 2006 and 2007 and absconding for more than 10 years before their arrest this year in Oklahoma were sentenced to prison terms today, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Henrico man pleaded guilty today to unlawfully prescribing Oxycodone and Tramadol to patients at a Richmond-area pain management practice.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Project Guardian, a new initiative designed to reduce gun violence and enforce federal firearms laws across the country. Specifically, Project Guardian focuses on investigating, prosecuting, and preventing gun crimes.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) announced today that the Subcommittee is holding a hearing titled “U.S.-Japan Trade Agreements." This hearing will focus on two agreements the United States and Japan signed in October 2019 and prospects for a second phase of negotiations...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that earlier today TROYNELL COOKS (“COOKS"), age 40, of Thibodaux, was sentenced to 77 months imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Sarah S. Vance for committing a bank robbery. Additionally, COOKS was ordered to serve (3) years of supervised release and pay a $100.00 special assessment fee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Project Guardian, a new initiative designed to reduce gun violence and enforce federal firearms laws across the country. Specifically, Project Guardian focuses on investigating, prosecuting, and preventing gun crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An ongoing federal, state, and local law enforcement Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation into the trafficking of crystal methamphetamine (meth) in Rhode Island has to date resulted in the arrest of four individuals, and the seizure of more than 250 grams of crystal meth and two firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Initiative emphasizes enforcing gun prohibitions based on domestic violence convictions and mental health denials.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - United States Attorney J. Douglas Overbey announced today that Rahim and Karim Sadruddin were entering guilty pleas to two counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering in connection with an information filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, after a jury had been selected for trial, Blaise Caroleo pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to sexual exploitation of a child. The proceeding took place before United States District Judge Eric N. Vitaliano. When sentenced, Caroleo faces a statutory minimum sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment and a maximum of 30 years’ imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that David Dewald, age 43, of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, was convicted of two counts of attempted production of child pornography, and three counts of online enticement and attempted online enticement of minors for sexual purposes, after a five-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney John F. Bash of the Western District of Texas announced today that Vibra Healthcare, LLC, Vibra Healthcare II, LLC, Vibra Rehab Holdings, LP, Vibra Rehabilitation Hospital of El Paso, LLC d/b/a Highlands Rehabilitation Hospital, and Vibra IRFM Company, LLC, (collectively referred to as...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
Release: LYNCHBURG, VA - A Danville, Virginia, woman was caught with a.38 caliber handgun loaded with five bullets at the Lynchburg Regional Airport security checkpoint by a Transportation Security Administration officer yesterday, November 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Attorney General William P. Barr announced today the launch of Project Guardian, a new initiative designed to reduce gun violence and enforce federal firearms laws across the country. Specifically, Project Guardian focuses on investigating, prosecuting, and preventing gun crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: MIAMI - Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and Ari C. Shapira, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Miami Field Division announced that Bill K. Kapri, a/k/a “Kodak Black," a/k/a “Dieuson Octave," 22, of Pompano...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Project Guardian, a new initiative designed to reduce gun violence and enforce federal firearms laws across the country. Specifically, Project Guardian focuses on investigating, prosecuting, and preventing gun crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSEPH GRIFFIN, 42, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, fentanyl. Griffin also admitted that he violated the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - A Butler County man has been charged with lying on ATF forms to illegally purchase the firearm used in killing Dayton Police Detective and DEA Task Force Officer Jorge DelRio on Nov. 4 during the execution of a search warrant on Ruskin Road in Dayton.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RALPH MANCINI, the owner and operator of County Waste Management, a waste disposal business based in Harrison, New York, pled guilty today to mail fraud before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa Margaret Smith. MANCINI admitted as part of his plea that he had defrauded numerous commercial customers by overbilling them for the waste collected and dumped on their behalf.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The former police chief of Greenwood, Missouri, was indicted by a federal grand jury today for violating the civil rights of a person he assaulted while handcuffed and restrained.
