News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kevin R. Palmer, age 37, a Jamaican citizen residing in Suwanee, Georgia, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for stealing more than $320,000 from an elderly Albany couple in a mail-based prize scam.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Shawn Meehan, 47, of Scarborough, Maine, pleaded guilty in federal court in Portland, Maine, on Tuesday to embezzlement and conversion of government property, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Marcos Salas Mendoza, 30, was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, fentanyl, and acetylfentanyl, and to launder drug proceeds.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, WV - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Roofing Solutions LLC - based in Charleston, West Virginia - for exposing employees to falls, and other safety and health hazards at worksites in Charleston and Nitro, West Virginia. The company faces $202,988 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Georgia Man Pleads Guilty to Operating Ponzi Scheme on University of Georgia’s Campus.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A North Dartmouth woman pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with her role in obtaining cocaine from Puerto Rico through the mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: MIAMI - Victor Manuel DeJesus, 47, of Miami-Dade County, who is a correctional officer at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Miami, has been arrested on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit bribery, bribery, and other offenses in connection with a scheme to provide contraband items to inmates at the federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-A Missoula man who admitted to multiple child pornography crimes was sentenced today to 12 years in prison, 10 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $3,000 restitution, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of LISA ANN SCHAFER, 57, for stealing $108,490.47 in federal disability benefits. SCHAFER, who was charged via felony information on Sept. 24, 2019, entered her guilty plea before Judge Eric C. Tostrud in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - Repairs at Scotty’s Castle are progressing as the four-year anniversary of the flood approaches. The National Park Service (NPS) plans to reopen the popular historic site in October 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: CEO of Credit Card Processing Company Charged in $19 Million Credit Card Laundering Scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) newly-proposed lead and copper rule, which is meant to provide the first update in three decades to the federal government’s lead and copper water standards...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: A Sterling Heights man pleaded guilty today to willfully exporting firearms parts without a license, announced Matthew Schneider, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Christopher Holmes, 31, has been sentenced to 55 months for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Michael Wayne Cooper, age 57, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was found guilty by a federal jury of one count of Distribution of a Controlled Substance Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury and one count of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance. U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier presided over the four-day trial held at the federal courthouse in downtown Sioux Falls.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Three Detroit, Michigan residents and one West Virginia woman have admitted to their roles in a drug distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA -DARRYL HENRY (“HENRY"), age 27, was sentenced on October 9, 2019, for committing three Hobbs Act Robberies and Brandishing a Firearm during a Crime of Violence, announced United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA -DARRYL HENRY (“HENRY"), age 27, was sentenced on October 9, 2019, for committing three Hobbs Act Robberies and Brandishing a Firearm during a Crime of Violence, announced United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico is announcing a two-week public comment period on the environmental analysis for its Feb. 6, 2020 oil and gas lease sale. Seventy-two parcels (17,464.42 acres) of federal minerals are proposed for lease. The parcels are located in Eddy, Lea, Rio Arriba and Sandoval counties, New Mexico; Kingfisher and Roger Mills counties, Oklahoma, and Cheyenne County, Kansas. The comment period will run from Oct. 15-28, 2019.
