News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - A significant opioid enforcement operation across the Middle District of Florida was executed involving charges against five individuals for their alleged involvement in various conspiracies to illicitly obtain and distribute oxycodone and other controlled substances.
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: A Cedar Rapids man who carjacked an 18-year old woman at gunpoint and carried a loaded handgun during and in relation to the robbery of a Cedar Rapids cell phone store was sentenced in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids on Sept. 25, 2019, to 222 months’ in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: He is the Third Person Convicted and Sentenced in the Case.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Los Angeles field office director for enforcement and removal operations held a press briefing today to highlight the impact of sanctuary policies on public safety and called on the public to hold local lawmakers accountable.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN -Marshawn Keith Burrus, 56, has been sentenced to 188 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Wells Field Office (WFO) is seeking public comment until Oct. 25, 2019 on a Plan of Operations amendment submitted by National Oilwell Varco to take corrective actions on water quality issues at the Big Ledge Mine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Melanie K. Pierson (619) 546-7976.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: One shooting took place in Minneapolis, two additional shootings took place in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham, announced that Ramon Hernandez, 61, of Bridgeport, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing cocaine and violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has signed a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for a Right-of-Way (ROW) permit request from Columbia Gas Transmission LLC (Columbia Gas). The permit would authorize Columbia Gas to run 553 feet of 8-inch-diameter natural gas transmission pipeline under Chesapeake...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Harrisburg, PA - Today, U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Tamara Inez Guzman - an 18-year old Harrisburg woman.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
Release: Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL), Chair of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's IRS oversight hearing with the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - The Department of Justice announced today that Avanir Pharmaceuticals (Avanir), a pharmaceutical manufacturer based in Aliso Viejo, California, has been charged for paying kickbacks to a physician to induce prescriptions of its drug Nuedexta.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Adaysha Tanner, 36, of Alexandria, Louisiana, was sentenced September 25 by Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr., to 10 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for financial aid fraud, in...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of JUSTIN THOMAS CHAPMAN, 38, to 180 months in prison for distributing child pornography. CHAPMAN, who pleaded guilty on May 8, 2019, was sentenced today before Judge Eric C. Tostrud in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Zhi Tian Lang, age 23, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, pleaded guilty on Sept. 25, 2019, to receipt of child pornography and to extortion by threat to ruin the reputation of another. Lang admitted that he threatened to post revealing photos of the victims on social media and other Internet platforms if they did not send him sexually explicit photographs and/or videos of themselves.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Former Mexican State Attorney General Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Participation in International Narcotics Distribution Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: South El Monte, California Man Sentenced in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Department of Justice Announces Arrests in Pensacola-Based Dog Fighting Ring Investigation.
