News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Four individuals, including two doctors, a pharmacist who had previously lost his license and been excluded from participating in the Medicaid and Medicare programs and a pharmacy owner have been charged for their participation in schemes in which the Medicare and Medicaid programs were fraudulently...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 80 criminal aliens during a 5-day period, from Sept. 21-25, across the New England area of responsibility.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Prineville, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Prineville District Office is announcing the open period for new Special Recreation Permit (SRP) applications from individuals and companies interested in guiding activities that will require a watercraft on the Lower Deschutes River. The application period opens Oct. 1, 2019 and will close Oct. 31, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Today, a South Florida man pled guilty to charges arising from his participation in kidnapping a victim at gunpoint and, along with his co-conspirators, facilitating his torture.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced a coordinated health care fraud enforcement action across seven federal districts in the Northeastern United States, involving more than $800 million in loss and the distribution of over 3.25 million pills of opioids in “pill mill" clinics. The takedown...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Oyster Bay, NY - On Sept. 17, 2019, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site hosted its annual Naturalization Ceremony. There were 63 new citizens representative of 34 countries. The ceremony, which took place on Constitution Day, recognized the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that David Castro, age 29, of Reading, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Sept. 25, 2019, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, to 57 months’ imprisonment for participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy that operated in Schuylkill and Berks Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The Justice Department today announced a coordinated health care fraud enforcement action across seven federal districts in the Northeastern United States, involving more than $800 million in losses and the distribution of over 3.25 million pills of opioids in “pill mill" clinics and doctors’...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain joined fellow Justice Department officials today at a press conference to announce a coordinated health care fraud enforcement action across seven federal districts involving more than $800 million in loss and the distribution of over 3.25 million...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed an optical system that accurately measures the flow of extraordinarily tiny amounts of liquids - as small as 10 billionths of a liter (nanoliters) per minute.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: STRONG CITY, Kansas: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is pleased to announce that reservations begin October 1st for the preserve’s 4th annual Candlelight Tour taking place on Saturday, November 9, 2019. All activities are free, but reservations are required for this event and fill up fast. Please call the visitor center at 620-273-8494 (hit 0) to make your free reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert Birch, age 46, of Allentown, was sentenced on Sept. 25, 2019, to 140 months’ imprisonment by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo, for his role in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that operated in Carbon and Lehigh Counties from December 2014 through September 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 65-year-old Lubrizol Corporation employee has been taken into custody following the return of a 10-count indictment for wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 14 months in jail and 18 months supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws and making a false statement in an application for a United States passport, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - DERRICK MARK, a/k/a “Dopeman," age 40, and CHRISTOPHER HARRIS, age 29, both residents of Bogalusa, Louisiana, were charged September 6, 2019, in a five-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury with several narcotics offenses, including conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Police Pursuit by Multiple Agencies Leads to Arrests.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: DENVER - Deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 42 criminal aliens and immigration violators in Colorado and Wyoming during a five-day enforcement action, which ended Sept. 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: A Columbus man was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison for robbing banks in Cleveland, Lakewood and Eastlake in February.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A former Harris County deputy constable and her husband have been charged with conspiring to possess heroin with the intent to distribute it as well as attempting to launder drug proceeds, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Law enforcement rangers will begin patrolling the Santa Monica Mountains on mountain bikes and on horseback in an effort to educate visitors on proper trail etiquette, according to the National Park Service.
