News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: A Toledo man was indicted for allegedly selling fentanyl and other drugs that resulted in a fatal overdose on New Year’s Eve.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Donte Watson, 33, of Washington, DC, pleaded guilty on Friday in a case where he was charged with 38 counts of armed burglary, armed robbery, armed kidnapping, and other violent crimes that he committed in the Trinidad neighborhood of Northeast Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Today, the United States Mint and the National Park Service officially launched the America the Beautiful Quarters® Program coin honoring San Antonio Missions National Historical Park in Texas. Over one thousand visitors from San Antonio and across the country filled the Laurie Auditorium at Trinity University to celebrate the new coin. Over 40 mission descendants, the living legacy of ancestors who helped to build the historic missions, attended the ceremony.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Second Tennessee Correctional Officer Pleads Guilty to Federal Civil Rights Offense for Beating Inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of the North Side of Pittsburgh, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to three years and ten months (46 months) in prison on conviction of possession with intent to distribute heroin and crack cocaine as well as maintaining a drug involved premises, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging two people with nine counts of wire and mail fraud relating to a scheme to defraud a major car company of more than $4 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - Three men are expected to make their appearances in federal court for aiding and abetting bank robbery and aiding and abetting brandishing a firearm in relation to robbing the Woodforest National Bank, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Monte Vista, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Front Range Fire and Aviation Management Unit and the Rio Grande National Forest are preparing to conduct a prescribed burn in the Squaw Creek area, approximately 17 miles west of Saguache, Colorado.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urging the Acting Commissioner to evaluate admissions and statements made by JUUL representatives under oath, and expeditiously take all appropriate enforcement action to protect the American public from the fraudulent and unapproved medical claims made by JUUL Labs.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Matthew Lee Roberson, 36, and Randy Lee Collins, 61, both of Rancho Cordova. The indictment charges Roberson with heroin and methamphetamine dealing as well as being a felon in possession of a firearm. The indictment charges Collins with being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: In Austin yesterday, a federal judge sentenced the last of 35 defendants convicted of his role in a Austin-based drug trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division; Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Isiah James Harrington, 19, of Spokane, Washington, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to attempted robbery, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Sentencing for Harrington has been set for Nov. 21, 2019, before Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye at the federal courthouse in Coeur d’Alene.
By State Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the announcement by the United States Agency for Global Media of CEO John Lansing's plans to step down...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Sean R. Fabian, age 42, of Plattsburgh, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 78 months in prison for conspiring to distribute 300 grams of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to three years and five months (41 months) in prison on conviction of attempt to possess with intent heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Two Houston men have been indicted for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Rebecca Jelfo, age 47, of Silver Spring, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to a federal wire fraud charge in connection with a scheme to defraud two employers of a total of at least $855,000 by submitting fraudulent and inflated invoices.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 59-year-old Longview, Texas, man has been sentenced to federal prison for criminal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown and FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. DeSarno.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Robert Brennan, 81, of Perryville, MD, was arrested and charged by Indictment with four counts of making materially false statements in a matter within the jurisdiction of the executive branch of the United States government.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: An Ypsilanti man was convicted today by a federal jury in Detroit on charges of distribution and conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances, heroin and fentanyl, resulting in the overdose death of a victim and the serious bodily injury to a second overdose victim, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
