News from September 2019

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Five men have been charged in separate Criminal Complaints this week for allegedly conspiring to distribute heroin in the Northern District of Oklahoma, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Used Grant Funds to Make Payments on His Home Mortgage.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced that JEREMY JASON SHIPMAN, age 30, of Bexar County, Texas, was charged Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019 by grand jury indictment with one count of failure to register as a sex offender under the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: An 18-count third superseding indictment was filed today in federal court in Brooklyn, charging three members of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, variously with racketeering, murder, attempted murder, murder conspiracy, robberies and related firearms...

By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 10:30 am in Room 2322 of the...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: What: The U.S. Census Bureau will hold a webinar on Sept. 19 from 2-3 p.m. EDT in advance of the Sept. 26 release of the 2018 American Community Survey statistics. The webinar will show participants how to access new data and online resources from the 2018 American Community Survey. Attendees will...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On September 4, 2019, Keith Bernard McJunkin, 59, of Tellico Plains, Tennessee, and Levi Zachary Wilson, 31, of Tellico Plains, Tennessee, were found guilty by the Honorable H. Bruce Guyton, Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge, of baiting bears inside the Cherokee National Forest. Each defendant...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A federal jury sitting in Frankfort found Gerald G. Lundergan, of Lexington, Ky., and Dale C. Emmons, of Richmond, Ky., guilty of conspiring to use more than $206,670 of corporate funds to make contributions to the campaign of a candidate for United States Senate and for causing the concealment of these contributions from the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Kansas City, MO - United States Marshal Mark S. James announced today the arrest of alleged child molester Scott Dames Keith from Trenton in Wichita, Kansas on the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2019.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Ten people were indicted for their roles in a conspiracy in which the leader allegedly controlled large shipments of fentanyl stamped into pills, heroin, cocaine and other drugs from Mexico to Cleveland while using a cellular phone smuggled into his prison cell.

By US DOT Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign helps educate GA pilots about how to avoid loss of control (LOC) accidents.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Raymond P. Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), Scott J. Lampert, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Department of Health...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey Girnun, an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Director of Cancer Metabolomics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University (“SBU") was charged in a seven-count indictment unsealed today with theft of state and federal government funds, wire fraud and money...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 44-year-old Lyford woman has been sentenced for possessing with the intent to distribute more than 26 kilograms of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Jacqueline Barrera pleaded guilty June 19, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man today admitted robbing a bank in Carneys Point, New Jersey, in July 2018 while brandishing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Sept. 12, 2019, Tedmund Blankschein, 51, plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States by impeding the Internal Revenue Service in connection with his and Albert Golant’s luxury...

By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation issued a Right-of-Use authorization Thursday that allows for the construction of a transmission line project on two remote 40-acre parcels east of Klamath Falls, Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News man was arrested today on charges of production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Jamie Clemons, age 34, of Pasadena, Maryland, with malicious destruction of a property by fire, in connection with the fire on July 28, 2017, at a bar in Pasadena. The indictment was returned on Sept. 11, 2019, and unsealed today upon the defendant’s arrest.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of bank robbery and being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.