News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Mark Conover (619) 546-6763 and David P. Finn (619) 546-7342.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Sept. 17, 2019 - A federal indictment unsealed today, charged Jose Fernando Andrade-Sanchez, 39, a citizen of Mexico, with unlawful re-entry into the United States, after having been previously removed, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee and John Condon, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations Nashville Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Haverhill licensed practical nurse pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to drug tampering.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Today, the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science announced new measures to make the process of evaluating standards faster and more efficient. The nation’s primary professional group focused on...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Bert Harris, 38, of Fresno, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to 10 years and three months in prison for using or carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Peter C. Fitzhugh, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), today...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: A Maryland political consultant pleaded guilty today to wire fraud as a result of his fraudulent scheme to solicit millions of dollars in political contributions through several scam-PACs that he founded and advertised as supporting candidates for office and other political causes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Steven D. Weinhoeft, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-Tyler Wayne Fuller, 30, of Madras, Oregon, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for his role in a Central Oregon methamphetamine distribution conspiracy and for robbing a Madras bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - First Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Richard P. Frey, D.O., and Physicians Alliance Ltd. (“PAL") have agreed to pay $178,398.35 to resolve liability under the False Claims Act for the alleged improper billing of “P-Stim" devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - Last week, Bo Lane, 36, of Coppermine, Ariz., was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 432 months in prison, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release, on seven counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, each count to run concurrently. Lane was found guilty of those counts by a federal jury on June 14, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The National Park Service (NPS) is offering a 10-year concessions opportunity at Acadia National Park. The selected concessioner would operate carriage tours and equestrian services at Wildwood Stables in Acadia National Park. The new contract is expected to be effective for the 2021 visitor season.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Uriah Odish pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he supplied fentanyl that led to the fatal overdose of 25-year-old Tiffany Hansen, of La Mesa, on Jan. 23, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jon Sterling Williams, of Richmond, Virginia, was indicted today on a charge of falsely altering his military discharge paperwork, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - In an effort to reduce the availability of deadly illegal fentanyl in America, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed to control three substances used by operators of clandestine laboratories to illicitly manufacture the deadly Schedule II controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: A former Detroit Police Office was convicted today by a federal jury in Detroit on the charge of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation that will allow New Jersey to utilize Clean Water State Revolving Funds to remove and replace the lead pipes contaminating Newark’s drinking water...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man Tries to Rob Albuquerque Bank at Drive-Through Window.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez-Covington has sentenced Alfredo Milan Caceres-Lopez (44, Colombia) to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine while onboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. On June 12, 2019, his brother, and co-defendant, Juan Carlos Caceres-Lopez (50, Colombia) was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for his involvement in the conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD")...
