News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Nigerian woman pleaded guilty today to leading a conspiracy to import more than five kilograms of cocaine, as well as to her role in a separate bank fraud scheme, and to making false statements relating to fraudulent claims submitted to Medicaid for reimbursement.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Gordon Eugene Mays, Jr., of Reynoldsville, West Virginia, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on a sex offender charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: The Honorable Judge Keith Starrett, of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, sentenced Defendant Graham Williamson, 38, to serve 36 months incarcertation on federal charges for his commission of a crossburning on Oct. 24, 2017, in Seminary, Mississippi. Williamson...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TREMAINE DOWDELL, 26, of Norwich, was arrested today on an indictment charging him with a federal firearm offense related to his alleged participation in an assault and shooting in New London in September.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Perry Santillo, age 39, of Rochester, New York, pleaded guilty on November 4, 2019, to mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a scheme to embezzle over $1 million from a Massachusetts company.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jose Catarino Feregrino-Resendez, a citizen of Mexico, has admitted to an immigration violation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney issued the following statement following the Inter-American Board of Agriculture’s (IABA) endorsement last week of a resolution emphasizing the need for science-based agricultural regulations to facilitate global agricultural trade.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that AARON JEFFREY DENN, age 34, a resident of Metairie, Louisiana pled guilty on November 5, 2019 to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Today, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Acting Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the transcripts of Gordon Sondland, the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, and Kurt Volker, the former United States Representative for Ukraine Negotiations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Oregon FBI's Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Medicare Scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS - A Columbus man was sentenced today for robbing a bank in Whitehall, pistol-whipping two of the bank’s employees while demanding money, and conspiring with his girlfriend to hide the gun he used in the robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Minnesota couple with their roles in a sophisticated fraud scheme that primarily targeted elderly Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 48-year-old resident of Hebbronville has entered a guilty plea to conspiring to possess with intent to deliver 58.5 kilograms of marijuana, announced DEA Houston Division Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - A local man has been charged federally with assaulting a law enforcement officer engaged in a federal investigation with a deadly weapon. The charge is a result of a shooting that took place during the execution of a federal search warrant during the evening of Nov. 4. Two others have also been charged in a drug conspiracy.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA, November 5, 2019-Descendants of the fungus-like pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s-Phytophthora infestans-may have had a "helping hand" in recent U.S. outbreaks of the costly blight disease.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: I’m here today to again promote common-sense entitlement reform.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Alex R. Ives, 31, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court to 37 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. for bank robbery. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, Ives will serve a three-year term of supervised release. Ives was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $9,073.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced today that it has filed a petition in federal court to enforce subpoenas that were issued by the Drug Enforcement Administration in its ongoing investigations of two Colorado pharmacies that dispense opioids and other controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Brian Keith Rose, an inmate at FCI Hazelton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on an assault charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
