News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Dennis Robertson, 43, of Hooksett, was sentenced on Thursday in federal court to 3 years of probation and ordered to pay more than $37,000 in restitution for embezzling labor union assets, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A California man pleaded guilty today to organizing and running a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy and commercial sex ring from his state prison cell.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Savannah doctor who operated a “pill mill" dispensing massive amounts of controlled substances - usually in return for cash - has been found guilty on 16 counts after a three-and-a-half day trial.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) and U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced the Continuing of Useful Resources to States (COURTS) Act to reauthorize the State Court Improvement Program (CIP), which provides formula grants to state courts to help them improve their handling of child welfare cases. The bill reauthorizes CIP for five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey has reached an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) settlement with a Bergen County, New Jersey-based gymnastics facility to ensure equal access for children with disabilities, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Tommy Lee Jenkins (age: 32), recently a resident of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was charged via a criminal complaint following his Oct. 10, 2019, arrest by local and federal authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - Sebastian Denton Zayas, age 30, of Orlando was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute cocaine. Denton pleaded guilty on July 22, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that OSIEL PEREZ-CORREA, age 30, was charged on Oct. 10, 2019 in a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: FORT LAUDERDALE - Elvin I. Lewis, Jr., of Hollywood, Florida, was convicted today of conspiracy to commit money laundering and money laundering charges, following a five-day jury trial. The charges stemmed from his decision to launder more than $3 million dollars in fraud proceeds from business email...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Shakeen Davis, a/k/a “Creams," age 25, of Baltimore, Maryland to 30 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for racketeering and drug conspiracies related to his participation in the gang activities ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell has sentenced Sebastian Denton Zayas (30, Orlando) to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute cocaine.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) today announced the appointment of Michael Falencki as Staff Director of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. Falencki is replacing the Subcommittee’s departing Staff Director, Murphie Barrett.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced today that all 20,000 rebates offered to general aviation aircraft owners to equip their aircraft with a new surveillance technology have been issued and are no longer available.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A citizen of Cameroon, Lovette Namatinga, was arrested on Oct. 7 at Washington Dulles International Airport by FDIC Office of Inspector General agents. Namatinga, who resides in Owings Mills, Maryland, was indicted by a Grand Jury on Oct. 1 on charges he defrauded a Kankakee County bank. He will appear for arraignment in Urbana, Illinois once he is transported to the Central District of Illinois by the U.S. Marshals Service.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: ST. LOUIS-On Saturday, Oct. 26, the National Park Service will host its annual Arch Builders’ Reunion to honor the many engineers, tradesmen and support staff who contributed to the construction of the Gateway Arch from 1963 to 1965.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Damanpreet Singh, 34, of Los Angeles, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to nine additional months in prison for failing to self-surrender to serve his prison sentence, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: BEAUFORT, SC- National Park Service announced expanded hours of operation and new programs beginning Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. The park visitor center, located at 706 Craven Street, will be open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 am - 5 pm. On October 18-19 and 26, 2019, the visitor center will remain open till 9 pm. In addition to expanded visitor center hours, new programs will be offered at 3 different park sites on the following days.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Victims Include 1-Year-Old. WASHINGTON - Derrick Watson, 42, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 80 months in prison for his role in a three person shooting that took place in Northeast, Washington in July 2017, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Leonard Glover, 32, of Frankfort, pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday, before U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove, to distribution of more than 10 grams of acetylfentanyl, a fentanyl analogue.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Petersburg man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for trafficking narcotics and firearms.
