News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham announced that Westley Northrup, also known as “Piff," 31, formerly of Meriden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 94 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for operating a drug trafficking ring while he was incarcerated.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House of Representatives today passed a collection of bipartisan conservation measures, including the Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act, a bill from Rep. Gregorio Sablan (D-CNMI) making it illegal to possess, buy, or sell shark fins or any product containing shark fins. The North...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: A man illegally residing in the United States was found guilty Wednesday in federal court of attempting to persuade an 11-year-old online to engage in sexual activity. Two years earlier, the defendant had also molested the child while she stayed at a friend’s house.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - Three people, including two former officers, are now in custody in relation to the fatal events that occurred in January 2019 on Harding Street in Houston, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their colleagues have discovered, for the first time, an adventive-meaning it just arrived in a new locality-aphid species as well as an associated parasitoid wasp on strawberry plants in Stoneville, Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A New York man who admitted to participating in a conspiracy to defraud banks while working at the direction of the ring-leader of a multi-state fraud ring based in Rhode Island was sentenced on Tuesday to 36 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - A federal jury has found Rondre Antwan Powell (32, Orlando) guilty of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Feb. 19, 2020.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C.-Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, pressed President Trump’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Stephen Hahn, on his commitment to putting science, data, and families’ health ahead...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Two Former Houston Police Department Officers Indicted in Connection to Fatal Raid.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that The Assistance Fund (“TAF"), a foundation based in Orlando, Fla., has agreed to pay $4 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by enabling certain pharmaceutical companies to pay kickbacks to Medicare patients taking the companies’ drugs.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be conducting the Trout Springs Jackpot Prescribed Burn in Owyhee County between late November and January depending on weather, fuel and ground conditions. The Trout Springs Jackpot Prescribed Burn is located on Juniper Mountain, 36 miles southeast of Jordan Valley, Oregon. The planned prescribed fire will target 137 acres of downed juniper trees remaining from past cutting treatments.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A South Charleston man was sentenced to prison on a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Willie James Coleman, 55, was sentenced to 37 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine base, which will be followed by 72 months of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Jody Shipman, 28, of Lexington, pleaded guilty Wednesday to carjacking, with the intent to inflict serious bodily harm or death, before Chief U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Norfolk, VA - U.S. Marshals are requesting the public’s assistance in locating Schuyler Omar Hardy. Hardy is wanted for a shooting that occurred on Nov. 06, 2019 in Norfolk, VA. After the shooting Hardy fled the scene, and the victim was transported to the hospital.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: The Pavilion at Indiana Dunes National Park’s Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk remains open and safe for use despite the recent erosion of a sand dune directly west of the pavilion. The National Park Service reports that while access to the beach is not possible due to the erosion, the Pavilion itself remains safe for public use.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, - Illya Scott, 30, of Nashua, was sentenced on Tuesday to 12 months and a day in federal prison for possession of a stolen firearm, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Cadie McAlister, 21, pleaded guilty to a federal offense and admitted concealing other correctional officers’ assault of an inmate while McAlister was serving as an officer with the Tennessee Department of Corrections.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - Three people, including two former officers, are now in custody in relation to the fatal events that occurred in January 2019 on Harding Street in Houston, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, FBI’s Miami Field Office, and Juan J. Perez, Director, Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) announced that on Nov. 12, 2019, Fabian Perpall, 28, of Perrine, Florida was sentenced to twenty years in prison after having been convicted at trial of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Created and Used “Money Sucking Website" to Identify Vulnerable Victims Whom They Then Targeted and Victimized.
