News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that Chief United States District Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced Gaylen T. Hall, a 41-year-old resident of Prairieville, Louisiana, to 72 months in federal prison following his conviction for possession with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Maryland man was arrested this morning on federal charges of cyberstalking victims in the Southern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court four years and two months (50 months) in prison and three years’ supervised release on his conviction of bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Andrew Stephen Lund, 37, of Vallejo, pleaded guilty today to attempted online enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Federal complaints have been filed against 30 defendants charged in a patients-for-cash kickback scheme, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett, and Special Agent in Charge for the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS-OIG), Steven J. Ryan.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was charged today with bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former elementary school teacher pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for sexually exploiting his 15-year-old former student by producing pornographic images of her.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today announced $170,623,713 million in grants from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) to all 50 States, five U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia for state-identified outdoor recreation and conservation projects. LWCF funds are non-taxpayer dollars derived from Outer Continental Shelf lease revenues and are awarded through federal matching grants administered by the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Jeffrey Putney, a/k/a Jeffy, Tom, and J.P., age 43, of California, formerly of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to federal charges of maintaining a drug-involved premises and to possession with intent to distribute at least 1,000 kilograms of marijuana. Putney has been a fugitive since the indictment was returned in December 2010. The guilty plea was entered on September 4, 2019.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: BLAINE, Wash. - Thirteen people were arrested today on two federal grand jury indictments alleging a conspiracy to export hundreds of pounds of narcotics, including cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine, from Mexico through Southern California and into Canada, announced Brad Bench of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Seattle Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Arlington man pleaded guilty today to robbing two Falls Church pawn shops of nearly $800,000 in jewelry and watches.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - The executive director of a suburban autism center has been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly billing a private insurer for nonexistent therapeutic services.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that PALMA JEFFERSON, SR. and PALMA JEFFERSON, JR., a father and son from the greater New Orleans area, were charged in a seven-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury on Aug. 29, 2019. PALMA JEFFERSON, JR. was charged with possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE- Charles Tranter, 35, of Woodburn, Indiana was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady, on September 4, 2019, after pleading guilty to the receipt of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. -The Bureau of Land Management New Mexico raised $9,839,328 in its quarterly oil and gas lease sale held September 5, 2019. Nearly 50 percent of the revenue from the sale will go to the states where the oil and gas activity occurs-in this case New Mexico, Kansas and Oklahoma-while the rest will go to the U.S. Treasury.
By State Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Washington-House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-NY) and Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) issued the following statement condemning Russia’s failure to hold free elections in Moscow and St. Petersburg and its crackdown on peaceful protestors...
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: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jonathan Velasquez, 26, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute over 40 grams of fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 37 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Andrew Harris, 23, of Philadelphia, entered a plea of guilty before United States Judge Cynthia M. Rufe on the charges related to violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1030 for using a school computer and someone else’s username without that...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: SENTENCING - Samuel Colin. On Aug. 26, Samuel Colin, 25, was sentenced to 78 months in the United States Bureau of Prisons for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. Court records reveal that from...
