News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Roosevelt Dowling, 59, of St. Croix, was sentenced on Sept. 18, 2019, in District Court on one count of Possession of Crack Cocaine with Intent to Distribute United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Defendant will face mandatory minimum of 15 years up to life in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Mercer County, New Jersey, man was convicted today of being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Three men were indicted in federal court for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids via the dark web.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee's oversight hearing on the mental health needs of children in HHS custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: A complaint was unsealed earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Steven Nerayoff and Michael Hlady with extortion. Nerayoff, an attorney, and Hlady threatened to destroy a startup cryptocurrency company if they were not paid millions of dollars in the cryptocurrency Ether (ETH). Nerayoff...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Law Enforcement Recovered a Gun and Three Kilograms of Fentanyl-Enough to Kill More Than 1.5 Million People.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's oversight hearing on the mental health needs of children in HHS custody.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, ARIZONA, Sept. 18, 2019-A new tool from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) can predict the odds that honey bee colonies overwintered in cold storage will be large enough to rent for almond pollination in February. Identifying which colonies will not be worth spending dollars to overwinter can improve beekeepers' bottom line.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago woman has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly operating a prostitution business in the city’s West Town neighborhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Adan Torres-Nieves, 45, of Milton-Freewater, Oregon, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release for possessing with the intent to distribute nearly four pounds of heroin in Eastern Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 28-year-old Hidalgo drug smuggler has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession with the intent to distribute nearly two kilograms of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Josue Rivera pleaded guilty May 30, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging six southern Florida men for their respective roles in a bank fraud and aggravated identity theft conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Montgomery, Alabama, returned a two-count indictment charging former Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) Lieutenant Willie Burks, 39, with failing to stop a sergeant under his command from kicking and striking with a baton...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY MORALES, 30, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: FALLON, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation and the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District will enter into contract negotiations October 2 for the transfer of operation, maintenance and replacement activities in the Newlands Project, located in western Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Threatened to Destroy the Company if They Were Not Paid Millions of Dollars Worth of Virtual Currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A delegation of law enforcement members from the state of Alabama, to include representatives from the Drug Enforcement Administration, recently returned from a covert trip to Mexico and to the state of Sinaloa, home of the Sinaloa Cartel, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris and U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Kermit Tyler Poulson, 40, was sentenced today to 14 months in federal prison and one year of supervised release for transmitting threatening communications with the intent to extort Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph Delisio, 47, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of heroin with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, was sentenced to serve 100 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
