News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska -- U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that on Wednesday, Sept. 18 and Thursday, Sept. 19, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division hosted roundtable discussions on combating sexual harassment and racial discrimination in housing in Fairbanks and Anchorage.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Special Agent-in-Charge Sean Ragan of the FBI’s Sacramento Division today announced that the independent federal review into the fatal shooting of Stephon Clark on March 18, 2018, found insufficient evidence to support federal criminal civil rights...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - BILLY C. PORTER, age 43, a resident of Bogalusa, Louisiana, was charged September 6, 2019, in a two-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury with distribution of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Communications and Technology and Consumer...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: DALLAS - Federal officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 49 criminal aliens and immigration violators in North Texas and Oklahoma during a five-day enforcement action, which ended Sept. 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - On Sept. 26, 2019, a federal grand jury in Memphis indicted 13 individuals for federal firearms violations. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictments today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement applauding the passage of the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act (H.R. 2699) during a subcommittee markup today of 15 environment bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Boston - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for Social Security fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) announces a new member of the senior staff for the committee Republicans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Was Twice Convicted of Firearms Offenses in California.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Derick Thomas Cumbie, a 26 year old resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced to 37 months of incarceration for possession of a firearm after being convicted of five felonies, namely, Theft of Property in 2018, Theft of Property in 2012, Burglary Third Degree in 2018, Receiving Stolen Property First Degree in 2018 and Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance in 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that defendant TEKA LAFRANCE, age 48, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty on Sept. 25, 2019 to multiple counts of conspiring to distribute and distributing large quantities of cocaine hydrochloride and cocaine base. LAFRANCE is facing a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, a maximum life sentence, a possible fine up to $10,000,000, and a period of supervised release of at least five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Richard Buffington (49, Clearwater) to 46 months in federal prison for committing wire fraud. The court also ordered Buffington to forfeit more than $1.2 million, which is traceable to the proceeds of the offense, and to pay more than $1.2 million in restitution to the victims of his fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Sentences. Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson sentenced SERGIO NERI-ARCE, 36, of Mexico on Sept. 20, 2019 for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Neri-Arce was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He received time served plus ten days to allow for deportation...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: “The park is experiencing abnormally dry and moderate drought conditions throughout the park," said Superintendent Cassius Cash. “With little rain and hot, dry conditions predicted over the next week, it is imperative that we reduce the risk of human-caused wildfires.".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Leigh-Alistair Barzey, Special Agent in Charge of the DCIS Northeast Field Office, today announced that DR. PHILIPPE R. CHAIN has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal government in which he will pay $300,000 to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: HONOLULU - John Winslett, 65, of Bristol, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty today in federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to accept kickbacks in connection with a U.S. government contract. Winslett admitted that he bribed government contracting...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that JHON ALBEIRO PINEDA JIMENEZ, age 37, and PEDRO ANTONIO JIMENEZ, age 65, both Colombians, were sentenced on Sept. 25, 2019 after previously pleading guilty to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Lonzo Patrick, 54, of St. Louis City, MO, pleaded guilty to three counts of robbery and two counts of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence in connection with three separate armed store robberies committed in October 2017. Patrick appeared today before U.S. District Judge Henry Ronnie L. White, who accepted his plea and set a sentencing date of January 8, 2020.
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.
