News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Received over 20 pounds of meth by mail from CA to distribute in IA.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Quebec Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Import and Distribute Fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Shot Victim at Ex-Wife’s Apartment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - A federal court issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting a Tampa-area physician from prescribing opioids and other controlled substances, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Monday, Rey Moreno-Vasquez, 52, of Douglas, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson to 70 months in prison, followed by 36 months of supervised release. Moreno-Vasquez previously pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Brody Kies (39, Webster) has pleaded guilty to a four-count indictment charging him with possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Kies faces a minimum mandatory of 15 years, and up to life, in federal prison. Kies had been indicted on Feb. 3, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -- A resident of West Homestead, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months’ imprisonment and one year of supervised release at each of his eleven counts of convictions for violating federal firearm laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Jimmy L. Harris, Jr., 43, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with being a felon in possession of a weapon. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - A federal court ordered a Tampa-area pain management clinic to close and directed the clinic’s owners and its former physician to collectively pay $600,000 in civil penalties pursuant to agreed resolutions in a case alleging violations of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Paducah, KY - A federal grand jury in Paducah returned an indictment yesterday charging a Calloway County woman with illegally transporting a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday, a federal judge sentenced BRIAN KENDALL SMITH, III, 23, of Oklahoma City, to 120 months in prison for illegal possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester. Federal law prohibits convicted felons from possessing firearms or ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Federal Settlement Provides over $20 Million to Increase Credit Opportunities in Philadelphia Metro Area Neighborhoods of Color. This is the First Redlining Settlement Against a Mortgage Company; the Second Largest Redlining Settlement in DOJ History.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois today filed a federal civil lawsuit against the CHICAGO CUBS, alleging the team failed to ensure that recent additions and alterations at Wrigley Field were appropriately accessible to individuals with disabilities, including people who use wheelchairs, as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Donnell Russell, a Self-Described Manager and Advisor of R. Kelly, Used the Mail, the Internet, and Cellular Phones to Harass and Intimidate Victim and Her Mother.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: FLORENCE, SOUTH CAROLINA -Shakeam Marquise Backus, 27, Joey Qurrieven York, 23, and Jyqwon Antonio Woods, 34, all of Florence, were sentenced this week to multiple years in federal prison based on their convictions for federal firearms violations. These cases were jointly investigated by the Florence...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that William Merlino, 85, of Mays Landing, NJ, was convicted at trial of selling misbranded drugs online, arising from his scheme to sell a toxic industrial chemical as a weight-loss drug which he manufactured in a lab in his home.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 36-year-old border crossing Visa holder out of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, has admitted to conspiring to transport an undocumented alien, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with Nevada under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA). Through LFPA, the Nevada Department of Agriculture seeks to purchase and distribute locally grown, produced, and processed food from underserved producers.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
“PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2543, FEDERAL RESERVE RACIAL AND ECONOMIC EQUITY ACT“ was published in the House section on pages H5499-H5506 on June 14
