News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A resident of Fayette County, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Central Ohio man was sentenced in U.S. District Court today for exporting gas and oil pipeline parts to Iran for more than a decade in deliberate violation of a U.S. embargo and trade sanctions.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
Release: Below is a bipartisan discussion draft of a bill to reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: New This Year - DEA Will Accept Electronic Vaping Devices and Cartridges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS--A Poplar man who admitted sexually abusing a teenage girl and of burning down a house on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation was sentenced this week to 10 years and one month in prison, six years of supervised release and ordered to pay $60,000 restitution, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Jordan Frederic Schemmel (38, Ormond Beach) to nine years and two months in federal prison for distributing depictions of child sexual abuse over the internet. Schemmel had pleaded guilty on May 22, 2019. Schemmel was also sentenced to a 10-year term of supervised release and ordered to register as a sex offender upon his release.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: Due to recent precipitation, Superintendent Niki Stephanie Nicholas announced the removal of restrictions on open fires within the backcountry of Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. Drought conditions for the area prompted the campfire restrictions on September 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Kevin Clinton, age 62, of New Carlisle, Indiana, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr, after being convicted on 4 counts of mail fraud during a 2-day trial in May 2019, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 28-count superseding indictment charging George H. Moses, 50, of Rochester, NY, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. The conspiracy and wire fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: A federal jury convicted a Wagoner man Thursday of sexual exploitation of a child and of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: DENVER - With robust public participation over the course of 17 prior events, the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative continues to remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to misuse, theft or abuse by family members and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS -- U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme will join the Drug Enforcement Administration in support of the 18th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, Oct. 26. The biannual event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at 26 collection sites across Montana. The event is an effort to rid homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Albert Singer, 24, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to five years in federal prison for bank robbery. Singer pleaded guilty to this charge on July 25, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 19-year-old Corpus Christi resident has been charged with making threats against Grant Middle School, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Oct. 8, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision with Calvin Plummer, Jr., doing business as J&J Cattle and J-J (Plummer) of Sayre, Okla., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Vienna woman pled guilty to gun and drug charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Ally Rhiann Propst, 25, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm by an unlawful drug user.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Savannah man is facing a substantial prison sentence after a federal jury returned a guilty verdict against him.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - With the plea of a 46-year-old Houston man, 13 people now stand convicted in the healthcare scam involving Continuum Healthcare and its various health centers in the Houston area, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today marks the one-year anniversary of the signing into law of the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act - a bipartisan response to the nation’s opioid crisis that has been called the most significant congressional effort against a single drug crisis in history.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2019
News Release: Gary Ryan Faces up to Life in Prison.
