News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, along with federal, state, and local law enforcement partners, today announced the Baltimore Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Strike Force, a new initiative designed to combat violent crime in Baltimore.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - September 4, 2019 -Lorenzo Shelton, 37, of Nashville, was found guilty yesterday on all counts of a federal indictment charging him with drug distribution and firearms violations, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Maryland man with making false statements to acquire firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - A federal complaint was issued today charging Teneisha D. Moore, 26, with one count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a) and 846, and one count of aiding and abetting the possession of one or more firearms in furtherance of that drug trafficking crime, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 924(c) and 2.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Ely District continues to monitor the Sheep Creek Fire in the Mt. Grafton Wilderness, 36 miles southeast of Ely, Nev. The lightning-ignited fire was first reported shortly after 9 a.m., Thursday, Aug. 29.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the arrest of HICHAM KABBAJ, a former senior manager in Manhattan for a global internet company (“Company-1"), for wire fraud and transacting in criminally derived proceeds. KABBAJ was arrested today and presented before Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON A Houston-area man who posed as a physician at an unregistered pain clinic was found guilty today for his role at a “pill mill" at which he and his co-conspirators illegally prescribed hundreds of thousands of doses of opioids and other controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: MACON - Three Middle Georgia defendants involved in three different criminal drug distribution operations were each sentenced to more than 100 months in prison for their crimes, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. United States District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A Bangladeshi national residing in Tapachula, Mexico, was arrested Aug. 31 on arrival at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston to face a superseding criminal indictment for his role in a scheme to smuggle aliens into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Kristi Koons Johnson Named Special Agent in Charge of the Omaha Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Brenda Cruise, age 48, of Dunmore, pleaded guilty on Sept. 3, 2019 before U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, to conspiracy to provide contraband to inmates at the Lackawanna County Prison.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Patchogue, New York - The National Park Service announced today that a structural fire occurred at Watch Hill's concession operated Whalehouse Point Restaurant in the early morning hours of September 4. Suffolk County Police Department, Suffolk County Fire Rescue and Emergency Services Coordinators (FRES);...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott, Chief Deputy Lasha Boyden and Chief Inspector Bert Tapia of the U.S. Marshals Service, and Stockton Police Chief Eric Jones announced a U.S. Marshals Service-led operation to reduce violence in Stockton.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: * On Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019, while on patrol, a backcountry ranger detected the lightning-ignited Wahb Fire near Cache Creek in the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park. See map.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt ARD LLC (formerly known as Mallinckrodt ARD, Inc. and previously Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Questcor")), has agreed to pay $15.4 million to resolve claims that Questcor paid illegal...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that defendant Christopher Loring, a former lieutenant at the Richwood Correctional Center, was sentenced to 46 months in prison in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to cover up the abuse of five inmates by corrections officers. Loring, 37, of...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: (MISSOULA, Mont.) - Smoke may be visible periodically during the next two months in the mountains east of Missoula. The Missoula Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is preparing for several controlled burns this fall. All of the burns are located in the Blackfoot Valley. Eight of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Robert Wilson, a/k/a “RO," Kevin Crosby, a/k/a “Sama," and Yefrel Brito, a/k/a “Mini" are Charged with the January 2019 Murder of Nelson Ramos.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, was arraigned before United States Magistrate Judge Maureen P. Kelly last week on charges of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ELIAS HERBERT HAFEN, a former financial adviser at two investment banks with offices in Manhattan, pled guilty today to investment adviser fraud in connection with having defrauded his clients out of...
