News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Three men and one woman were indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston with fentanyl and carfentanil conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - Today the government has unsealed charges against 19 individuals in an alleged narcotics conspiracy. Arrests were made this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Superseding Indictment was returned against Deon Blair by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh charging the distribution of heroin, butyryl fentanyl, and fentanyl resulting in serious bodily injury and death, and the commission of related firearms crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today. A federal jury trial has been scheduled to start on Oct. 28, 2019, in Pittsburgh.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Brock Likens, age 34, of Greene, New York, was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for distributing, receiving and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Angela Haggerty, age 44, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Sept. 25, 2019, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 37 months’ imprisonment followed by three years’ supervised release, for participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that operated in Hazleton and other areas of Luzerne County.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Edgar Veytia Used His Position as a High-Level Law Enforcement Official to Facilitate Drug Trafficking into the United States by a Violent Mexican Drug Cartel.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Avanir Pharmaceuticals (Avanir), a pharmaceutical manufacturer based in Aliso Viejo, California, was charged for paying kickbacks to a physician to induce prescriptions of its drug Nuedexta, the Department of Justice announced today. The Northern District of Ohio also announced indictments of four individuals...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BOISE - Artur Pupko, 28, of Boise, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to trafficking in counterfeit goods, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis and Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced today. Sentencing for Pupko has been set for Dec. 17, 2019 before U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill at the federal courthouse in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: The former Allen County Sheriff was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for asking for and taking bribes from people arrested in prostitution stings, suspected gamblers and others.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - An active-duty United States Air Force Master Sergeant currently assigned to Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas was indicted by a federal grand jury on Sept. 24, 2019, with federal firearm and drug trafficking charges, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Pecos, NM: Pecos National Historical Park is looking to hear from community members who have stories, photographs or memorabilia that shed light on what it was like to work at Kozlowski’s Trading Post and the Forked Lightning Ranch between 1860 and 1990. In February of 2019, Pecos National Historical...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon, Discharging a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence, and Failure to Appear was sentenced on Sept. 26, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Sept. 25, 2019, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 50 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: La Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos dio a conocer hoy su estudio más detallado de la población, los lugares y la economía de los Estados Unidos. Nuevas estadísticas sobre ingresos, pobreza y seguro médico a nivel estatal y local se encuentran disponibles en informes, tablas detalladas, perfiles de datos y más. La Encuesta sobre la Comunidad Estadounidense (ACS, por sus siglas en inglés) también produce estadísticas para más de otros 40 temas.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor urging support for a bipartisan resolution to terminate the President’s national emergency declaration and save military construction projects President Trump has canceled to pay for a border wall.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: International Falls, MN - Voyageurs National Park staff will be conducting hazard marker and regulatory buoy removal within the park during the month of October. The tentative start date for this season’s buoy removal is Oct. 1, although weather and other variables play a critical role in determining specific dates for this work.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Dezmaighne McClain, 28, of Sacramento, charging him with two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Hike to the Powell Marker this October!.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr announced the appointment of the following nine U.S. Attorneys to serve on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC): David Anderson, Northern District of California; Scott Brady, Western District of Pennsylvania; Maria Chapa Lopez, Middle District of Florida;...
