News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: Prosecution Brought under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Phong T. Duong, age 49, and Oanh T. Pham, age 46, both of Lincoln, Nebraska, were sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for violations of the federal Lacey Act. United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., sentenced Duong to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - On Sept. 26, 2019, a federal grand jury in Memphis indicted John Sanderson, 36 of Dyersburg, Tennessee and Matthew Berry, 40, of Bells, Tennessee for child pornography violations. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictments today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced JOSEPH RUSSEL GRAFF, 39, of Newport, North Carolina to 52 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: Defendant and co-defendant caught hiding nearby after forcing store staff onto the floor at gunpoint.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) has proposed the Alaska Liquefied Natural Gas (AK LNG) project to transport natural gas for export to foreign markets and also provide for in-state gas deliveries. Natural gas extracted at the North Slope of Alaska would be piped approximately 800 miles to a liquefaction facility at Cook Inlet.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, man was sentenced to 252 months in prison for distributing images of child sexual abuse and violating the conditions of his supervised release imposed in connection with a previous child pornography conviction, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Justin Blake, 36, of Brooklyn, New York, and Michael Graham, 37, of Burlington, Vermont, were indicted yesterday by the federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to distribute, possessing with intent to distribute...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: Lakeview, Ore. -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Lakeview District is planning daytime aerial herbicide spray applications between Oct. 7 and 18 to support Greater Sage-Grouse restoration project areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man was sentenced today to two years in prison for illegally accessing his former employer’s network systems, stealing critical servers and information, and causing a loss of over $1.1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A New York man was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston with the Aug. 19, 2019, armed robbery of a branch of the Bank of America in Revere.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: Midwest Health Care Fraud Law Enforcement Action Results in Charges Against 53 Individuals Alleging $250 Million in Loss.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that United States District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo sentenced three men from New York for various heroin trafficking and firearms offenses. On Sept. 19, 2019, Judge Caputo sentenced Jose Mendoza, ...
By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today made the following statement on the Trump Administration’s decision to cut the number refugees allowed in the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A southeast Kansas man was sentenced Thursday to 27 years in Federal prison for producing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced DANIEL THOMPSON 22, of Fairmont, North Carolina, to 112 months’ imprisonment and ELIJAH MITCHELL 24, of Lumberton, North Carolina, to 125 months’ imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: ERIE COUNTY, N.Y> - Ray Donovan, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, Attorney General Letitia James, and New York State Police Superintendent Keith M. Corlett today announced the arrests of 23 people for their roles in two drug trafficking rings operating...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Christopher O’Sullivan, 31, of Philadelphia, was charged by Indictment with one count of using a facility of interstate commerce to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity, and one count of manufacturing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dawan “Finesse" Oliver, age 36, currently an inmate at Dauphin County Prison, was sentenced to 21 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay an assessment of $5,000 under the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act by Senior United States District Judge Yvette Kane for interstate travel in aid of prostitution.
