News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Robert Walls, 28, was sentenced on Nov. 26, 2019, to 15-years in federal prison followed by a life term of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason for coercion and enticement of three minor victims in Anchorage.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: Desari Schossi to Serve 48 Months in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EDWIN ROMERO was sentenced yesterday to 35 years in prison for his role as the leader of a drug distribution organization centered on Weeks Avenue and East 175th Street in the Mount Hope neighborhood of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced BERNARD HARVEY FERGUSON, 33, of Fayetteville, North Carolina to 100 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement in response to a new report from the Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) detailing how the Trump Administration separated children from their families even though they knew they could not track them...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A Mexican national with a violent criminal history was sentenced to the maximum imprisonment term for illegal reentry into the United States, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Jose Zamudio-Jimenez, 34, of Mexico, was sentenced to 24...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: A man who admitted to police officers that he made marijuana products and that he lied about his drug use on forms to purchase firearms was sentenced Nov. 26, 2019, to almost two years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: WALNUT GROVE, Calif. - Until further notice, the Bureau of Reclamation plans to close the Delta Cross Channel gates beginning 9 a.m. Sunday Dec. 1, to help protect Chinook salmon on the Sacramento River.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Nov. 19, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entered into a stipulation agreement with Joseph W. White, American Cattle Co., LLC, doing business as American Cattle...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: Dr. April Tyler, a Fenton, Michigan area doctor, pleaded guilty to violating the anti-kickback statute on November 6, 2019. Dr. Tyler’s conspirators, Patrick Wittbrodt, 44, of Grand Blanc, Michigan and Jeffrey Fillmore, 31, of Clio, Michigan pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud on March 6, 2019 and Nov. 19, 2019 respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: Two Guards, Inmate Previously Pled Guilty Involving Black Market of Drugs and Cellphones in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: CINCINNATI - A Batavia man was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 300 months in prison for using a gun to rob the Cheviot Savings Bank and robbing Cincinnatus Savings and Loan.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
Release: SYRACUSE, NY - A Florida man was arrested this morning at Syracuse Hancock International Airport after Transportation Security Administration officers at the airport spotted a.32 caliber handgun loaded with seven bullets in his carry-on bag-the second time in three weeks that the same man has been caught with a loaded gun at an airport checkpoint in New York State. He also was in possession of a box with 41 additional bullets in it.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: Brooklyn Man Arrested for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: AUGUSTA, ME - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Shawn D. Purvis - owner of Purvis Home Improvement Co. Inc. based in Saco, Maine - for willful, repeat and serious workplace safety violations at a jobsite in Springvale, Maine. The roofing contractor faces a total of $278,456 in new penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: Harrisburg, PA - Today, U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of John Curtis Anderson Jr. - a 22-year old Harrisburg man.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Detroit man, Aaron Smith, 46, who previously admitted to possessing over 300 grams of heroin with the intent to sell it, was sentenced Wednesday to 90 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that on Nov. 25, 2019, an Anchorage jury convicted Forest M. Kirst, 62, of Fairbanks, Alaska, of two counts of obstruction of proceedings before federal agencies.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 27, 2019
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, Dec. 14, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a 45-minute special program on the local land dealings of Xanders and Thomas McFarland in the 1830s. This program will take place at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center.
