News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: In Waco today, a federal judge sentenced 25-year-old Dallas Scott Bohanan to life in federal prison for committing two armed bank robberies, one of which resulted in Bohanan firing his weapon at a police officer, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: BOISE - Brian Cade Humphreys, 46, of Meridian, Idaho, was sentenced last week to fourteen years in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release for distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Humphreys was sentenced by U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill. A federal grand jury indicted Humphreys on July 11, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Linda Paolini, 44, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro to two counts of manufacturing and attempted manufacturing of child pornography, and one count of online enticement of a minor.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that Runway Status Lights (RWSL), the first technology to provide direct warning to pilots about potential runway conflicts, is now operational at all 20 sites approved to receive the ground-breaking technology.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Rasheme Bridges, aka “Bam" or “Benji Bam," 19, of St. Louis, and Kelton Rucker, aka “Kellz" or “Benji Kellz," 19, of St. Louis, were indicted today for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana and possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Dion Gregory Fisher (33, formerly of Seminole) to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring to manufacture and distribute fentanyl and fentanyl analogue, and money laundering. Fisher was also ordered to forfeit several...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Today is Halloween. This may sound a little candy corn-y, but this Iowan wants to talk about the scary prices of prescription drugs. Since January, I’ve joined bipartisan forces to drive a stake in the heart of ghoulish price gouging. Senator Wyden and I are working to shut down the pranks poisoning...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 15 years (180 months) in prison and six years of supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and distribution of cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to selling heroin to an Overland Park, Kansas, man, which resulted in his overdose death.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Two more southern Missouri women pleaded guilty in federal court today to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine in Springfield, Missouri.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 19 Texas counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers who suffered losses due to recent weather events may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Rene Elene Griffin Nunn, 60, a resident of Vancouver, Washington pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances. At the time of the offense, Nunn was a registered nurse at Adventist Medical Center in Portland.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that William Guy, 51, formerly of Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Peterson to one year in prison for fraudulently obtaining a passport. Guy pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 22, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against Daniel Wayne Benner, 33, of Orangevale, charging him with distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement regarding the advance notice of proposed rulemaking released by the Treasury Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Richard Tyler, age 34, of York, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Oct. 30, 2019, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - An Arizona man was indicted in federal court in Boston yesterday in connection with his sending methamphetamine through the U.S. mail from Arizona to Massachusetts.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Winter is here. Ice is forming in Crooked Creek bay and ice chunks are floating in the Shoshone River. This is a good indication it is time to start pulling the courtesy docks at Bighorn Canyon. On Oct. 31, 2019, the Horseshoe Bend courtesy dock will be pulled out of the water in preparation for ice...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Tony Garrett Taylor, 39, formerly of Charlotte, N.C. and currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia, pleaded guilty today to health care fraud conspiracy and tax evasion, for his role in a scheme that defrauded the North Carolina Medicaid (Medicaid) of more than $6.1 million, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. Magistrate Judge David S. Cayer presided over the plea hearing.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Today, House Committee Education and Labor Democrats passed the so-called College Affordability Act. This partisan legislation will contribute to exploding college costs, exacerbate our nation’s skills gap, and allow failing programs to go unchecked. This approach will force students to spend more to learn less.
