News from September 2019
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 Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 54 individuals throughout New Jersey during a weeklong action targeting public safety threats who were released from local law enforcement custody into the community instead of being transferred to ICE.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Two doctors from Northeast Ohio and two drug company salesmen were indicted in federal court for their roles in a kickback conspiracy in which the doctors allegedly received money and other things of value in exchange for writing prescriptions of Nuedexta for patients that did not have the condition.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Roosevelt, AZ - Effective on Sept. 24, 2019, fire restrictions for all districts of Tonto National Forest and Tonto National Monument are lifted. Normal fire regulations are still in effect.
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: 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 Drug Enforcement Administration Houston Division Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Paul J. Stabile, 39, of Cranston, who used an online persona of “Cindi Mennillo," a 16-year-old girl from Newport, to persuade numerous young boys between the ages of 13-15 to engage in explicit sexual activity in live stream videos over Facebook Messenger and Skype, was sentenced today to 151 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Mackee Donell Jefferson, 38, of Jackson, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee to 21 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Revere man and a Boston man were indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston with drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - Aaron Lee Woods of Roanoke, whose Eastern Avenue home was alleged to have been something like a “fast food operation for marijuana," was arrested on a federal criminal complaint last week and charged with crimes related to federal drug trafficking and firearms offenses. United States...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, helped convene the committee’s first ever hearing on domestic terrorism with a focus on countering white supremacist violence. At the hearing, Peters discussed how hateful...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Today, Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at the subcommittee's hearing on H.R. 3, the Democrats' socialized drug pricing scheme...
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 Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS, MT. -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) presented its 2019 Rangeland Stewardship Awards today, which are given in recognition of an individual or group’s commitment to the stewardship of public rangelands and sagebrush steppes under BLM management. This year’s recipients include the Garfield County Conservation District in Montana, the Idaho Rangeland Resources Commission and Weimer Ranches of Colorado.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) gave the following opening remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee markup of 15 bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces a significant health care fraud and opioid enforcement operation across the Middle District of Florida, involving charges against seven individuals for their alleged involvement in various schemes to defraud Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care benefit programs, and in various conspiracies to illicitly obtain and distribute oxycodone and other controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: In Austin today, a federal government employee at Camp Mabry surrendered himself to federal authorities on charges that he allegedly stole and unlawfully sold more than $1 million worth of items from the military installation in Austin, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management Colorado today sold 49 parcels totaling approximately 42,149 acres for $601,541.00 including rentals and fees at its quarterly oil and gas lease sale.
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: Jackson, Miss. - Mackee Donell Jefferson, 38, of Jackson, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee to 21 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Mississippi.
