News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Matthew David Carter, age 36, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced after having pleaded guilty on April 9, 2019, to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and four counts of mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: SEATTLE - Federal, state and local law enforcement fanned out across the Puget Sound region today arresting 17 people in connection with multiple counts of drug trafficking. The drug trafficking organization brought large loads of heroin and methamphetamine into the Seattle area. In one instance law enforcement seized 33 pounds of meth and 14 pounds of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Los Banos, California Woman Sentenced in Federal Court.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) during today’s hearing titled: “The Pebble Mine Project: Process and Potential Impacts."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Naven Conley Also Possessed Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of H.R. 777, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2019...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: An Akron man was indicted today in federal court for dealing fentanyl and heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Researchers from the U.S. Census Bureau, along with many other statistical and survey research professionals across the nation, will present findings at the 2019 Southern Demographic Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Oct. 23-25.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - John Barrett Cotting, 39, of Brandon, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves to 120 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley with the Drug Enforcement Administration. Cotting was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jason Douglas Lee, a/k/a “J Rock", a/k/a “Douglas Fresh", age 38, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Distribution Of Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A), punishable by not less than 10 years and not more than life imprisonment, a fine up to $10,000,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Defendant paid to have co-conspirator take ACT for her son.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Mario Mercado, age 39, of Pueblo, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martinez to serve 33 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin. Following the prison sentence, Judge Martinez...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Saturday is the Drug Enforcement Administration’s 18th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Gary Frank, 48, of Philadelphia and Bala Cynwyd, PA, was sentenced to 210 months’ imprisonment, five years supervised release and ordered to pay $33,702,900 in restitution by United States District Judge Gerald Pappert for executing a massive...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has determined that Phillip L. Sandifer was not responsibly connected to Sandifer Farms LLC, Blackville, S.C. This is an update to Press Release No: 131-19 issued on Oct. 15, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A suburban Pittsburgh resident has been sentenced in federal court to four years’ (48 months’) imprisonment and 10 years of supervised release on his conviction of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal grand jury in Providence has returned indictments charging two women in related cases with child pornography charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
Release: ROANOKE, Va. - A Troutville, Virginia, man was stopped by the Transportation Security Administration with a.380 caliber handgun loaded with six bullets, at the Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport checkpoint on Tuesday, October 22. The TSA officer who was staffing the checkpoint X-ray monitor detected the handgun inside the man’s carry-on bag.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: NEEDLES, Calif. - Thanks to the generous new pledges made by Roy Dunlap Spay & Neuter Foundation ($32,000), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($5,000), and the National Mustang Association ($5,000), the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the deaths of 46 wild burros from the Clark Mountain Herd Area in California has now risen to more than $100,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Apollo, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiring to distribute more than 50 kilograms of marijuana, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
