News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Authorities this morning arrested five defendants charged in a federal grand jury indictment alleging they took part in a drug trafficking ring that imported pound quantities of cocaine and heroin from Mexico, then used modified BMW “trap cars" to distribute those drugs throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence resident was indicted today in federal court in Boston with sexually exploiting two children under four years of age.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - John Burton, Nico Nixon, and Quintine Scales have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for fentanyl, heroin, and crack cocaine trafficking and firearm crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Nathalie Asher, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Field Office Director for the Pacific Northwest, told Seattle media Thursday “while there are varied opinions on what immigration law in this country should be, current immigration law must be adhered to and enforced. Furthermore, ICE’s focus on arresting illegal aliens with criminal convictions and pending charges should not be even remotely controversial."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Charlotte has returned criminal indictments against five defendants, for their alleged involvement in drug trafficking in the Statesville area.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Defendants face ten year mandatory minimum sentence.
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: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that KEITH ORLEAN, a/k/a “Jack Allen," pled guilty to participating in a scheme to target elderly persons to solicit purchases of stock in a series of valueless companies through a variety of lies and misrepresentations. ORLEAN pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and one count of securities fraud before U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Alleged Health Care Schemes in the Eastern District of New York Exceeded $17 Million in Fraudulently Billed Claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Daniel Brown, age 29, of Bullhead, South Dakota, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter as a result of a federal jury trial in Aberdeen, South Dakota. United States District Judge Charles B. Kornmann presided over the trial proceedings.
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: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that KEITH ORLEAN, a/k/a “Jack Allen," pled guilty to participating in a scheme to target elderly persons to solicit purchases of stock in a series of valueless companies through a variety of lies and misrepresentations. ORLEAN pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and one count of securities fraud before U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Newport, Kentucky, man was sentenced in federal court on Thursday, by U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning, to five years of probation and 30 days of intermittent confinement for committing Social Security fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - TREVION HARRIS, a/k/a “TRIGGA," age 22, JONZARRION HARRIS, a/k/a “GEE," age 19, and DEMARQUIEZ HARRIS, age 24, all residents of Bogalusa, Louisiana, were charged September 6, 2019, in a twelve-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 State Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced that a jury found Evan Jamon Woodard, 34, of Tulsa, guilty on Wednesday of multiple crimes, including intent to distribute cocaine, marijuana, and heroin, while carrying a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Wayne Patterson, who committed a string of eight armed robberies in the metro-Atlanta area, has been sentenced to federal prison.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today in a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), once again called for a comprehensive reauthorization of the Higher Education Act that addresses four core priorities she has consistently...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Sharon woman was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for stealing Social Security benefits intended for her children.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 31-year-old Huntsville, Alabama, woman has entered a guilty plea to knowingly attempting to smuggle 20 pounds of pure meth, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
