News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina - United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Columbia District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold its 18th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day at over 80 locations across South Carolina this Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The United States Attorney’s Offices for the Southern and Northern Districts of West Virginia and the FBI are teaming up to educate the aging population in the mountain state and their families about the dangers of elder fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, PAMELA DEWITT BABB, 49, of Mt. Olive, and DAVON TERRELL HENDERSON, 32, of Greenville, NC, pleaded guilty to a Criminal Information charging BABB and HENDERSON with Conspiracy to Commit Health Care Fraud, and Aggravated Identity Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the DEA’s Las Vegas Division encourage Nevadans to participate in the 18th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day by dropping-off their expired, unused and unwanted medications on Saturday, Oct. 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at 19 collection sites.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that SCOTT DAVID COHEN, 39, of Stratford, was arrested today and charged by federal criminal complaint with multiple child sexual exploitation offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Juan Porcayo, age 48, of Yuba City, California, was found guilty of Conspiracy to Distribute 500 grams or more of Methamphetamine as a result of a federal jury trial in Rapid City, South Dakota. The trial began Monday, October 21 and concluded Tuesday, October 22. Porcayo was originally indicted by a federal grand jury on Sept. 19, 2017.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) issued the following statement after media reports of the Trump Organization looking to sell its hotel currently housed in the federally-owned Old Post Office Building in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: In Del Rio, a federal grand jury added two new charges of distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death to an existing 20-count indictment returned in May against Dr. Alfonso Luevano, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division; and, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On Oct. 16, 2019, U.S. District Court Judge Dominic W. Lanza sentenced Timothy Peter Ray to 27 months in prison for illegally possessing firearms in violation of a court order. Ray previously pleaded guilty to illegally possessing six firearms and over 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Mobolaji Tina Stewart, 58, of Laurel, Maryland, was sentenced yesterday to 13 months in prison for engaging in a scheme to defraud the District of Columbia’s Medicaid program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person and False Statements During Purchase of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Marques Smith, a/k/a CC, age 37, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was found guilty of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine as a result of a 3-day federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Gerard Graves (27, Clearwater) to seven years in federal prison for unlawful possession of firearms in a school zone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that John A. Swayze, age 56, of York, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Oct. 23, 2019, by a federal grand jury on child exploitation charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Three Kansas City, Missouri, tax preparers have pleaded guilty in federal court to a scheme to file false tax returns.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) today rescinded the direction in a Sept. 24, 2019, memo to Utah park superintendents asking that they remove off-road vehicle closures in effect on NPS roads in Utah by November 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced the conviction of Nathaniel W. Turner, a 33-year-old resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Turner was indicted by a federal grand jury on Aug. 29, 2019, and charged with possession with the intent to distribute heroin, possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possession of firearms by a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: DENVER-- The National Park Service (NPS) today rescinded the direction in a Sept. 24, 2019, memo to Utah park superintendents asking that they remove off-road vehicle closures in effect on NPS roads in Utah by November 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Three Carlisle, Kentucky farmers admitted in federal court Thursday, before United States District Judge Karen Caldwell, that they committed crop insurance fraud-related offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: A Campbell man was indicted for allegedly failing to register as a sex offender.
