Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeNorthern District of Ohio FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, May 21, 2020 The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio announced today that a federal grand jury in Cleveland returned a three-count indictment charging Justin Michl, age 23, of Akron with intent to distribute Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), possession of firearms in furtherance of…
Gresham Man Charged with Smuggling and Importing Misbranded Chloroquine from China for Attempted Resale
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of Oregon FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, May 11, 2020 PORTLAND, Ore.—U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that a Gresham, Oregon man has been charged with illegally purchasing, importing, and offering for sale chloroquine, the active pharmaceutical ingredient in prescription drugs used to treat malaria. Matthew Owens, 42, has been charged by…
Pair Sentenced for Conspiring to Defraud the Food and Drug Administration
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeWestern District of Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, May 7, 2020 Harrisonburg, Va. – A pair of former business partners who operated multiple websites selling drugs and other products to the bodybuilding community, were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Harrisonburg on federal conspiracy charges. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and…
Mingo County Pharmacy to Pay Civil Monetary Penalties to Resolve Alleged Violations of the Controlled Substances Act
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeSouthern District of West Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, May 6, 2020 CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Adkins Pharmacy, Inc. (“API”), a pharmacy located in Mingo County, has agreed to pay civil monetary penalties to resolve allegations that the pharmacy violated the Controlled Substances Act by filling illegitimate prescriptions, United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced…
Blue Bell Creameries Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay $19.35 Million for Ice Cream Listeria Contamination – Former Company President Charged
Department of JusticeFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, May 1, 2020 Texas-based ice cream manufacturer Blue Bell Creameries L.P. agreed to plead guilty to charges it shipped contaminated products linked to a 2015 listeriosis outbreak, and the company’s former president was charged in connection with a scheme to cover up the incident, the Justice Department announced today. In a…
Animal Health International Sentenced on Federal Misbranding Charge
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeWestern District of Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, May 4, 2020 ABINGDON, Va. – Animal Health International Inc. (AHI), a Colorado corporation that obtains prescription drugs for animals from manufacturers for further distribution to veterinarians, farms, feedlots, and other facilities, was sentenced today, through its corporate counsel, in U.S. District Court after previously pleading…
HOPE Clinic Manager Sentenced to Federal Prison for Gun Crime
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeSouthern District of West Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, May 5, 2020 BECKLEY, W.Va. – A HOPE Clinic manager was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison for a gun crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Joshua Radcliffe, 36, of Shady Springs, previously pled guilty to conspiring with Mark T. Radcliffe to…
Former Naturopath Charged Criminally for Trafficking in Misbranded Drugs Claiming They Could Prevent COVID-19
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeWestern District of Washington FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, April 30, 2020 Port Angeles Naturopath Lost His Washington State License in 2018 Tacoma – A former Port Angeles, Washington, naturopathic physician was charged today with a federal felony related to his attempts to promote a misbranded drug as a prevention for COVID-19, announced U.S. Attorney…
Court Orders Halt to Sale of Silver Product fraudulently Touted as COVID-19 Cure
Department of Justice FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, April 29, 2020 A federal court in Utah has entered an injunction halting the sale of a fraudulent coronavirus (COVID-19) treatment, the Department of Justice announced today. In response to a civil complaint and accompanying court papers filed on April 27, 2020, in Salt Lake City, the U.S. District Court for…
Court Prohibits Dallas Wellness Center from Touting ‘Ozone Therapy’ as COVID-19 Treatment
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeNorthern District of Texas FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, April 24, 2020 A federal court entered a permanent injunction halting a purported “ozone therapy” center in Dallas from offering unproven treatments for COVID-19, U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox announced today. In a civil case filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas,…