News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Lila Mechaley, age 53 of Niobrara, Nebraska, upon her conviction for theft of funds on the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation. Judge Bataillon ordered Mechaley to serve five years of probation and to perform 200 hours of community service. Mechaley was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $16,726.22 to the Village of Santee.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: There is a small fire, approximately 5 acres, on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park called the Tonahutu Fire. The fire is located roughly 1 mile north of Grand Lake. There are six firefighters including personnel from Rocky Mountain National Park, Arapaho National Forest and Grand Lake Fire Protection District who have been part of the initial attack plus a Type III helicopter is on scene. Two Type 2 crews and a ten person fire module have been ordered.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Tantus Tobacco, LLC, a Russell Springs, Kentucky, company paid $750,000 in restitution and forfeitures this week, in U.S. District Court, after being sentenced by Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., on a single charge of conspiracy to engage in contraband cigarette trafficking, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Was Wanted On Indictment Pending in Southern Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that two Greenbrier County men pled guilty in federal court in Bluefield, West Virginia to federal drug charges, Roger Lee Deem, 60, of Ronceverte, pled guilty to using a telephone to facilitate a drug felony. Deem admitted that...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Ismael Hernandez Valle, 18, of Bellevue, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - The results of the August 2014 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Two men, one from Boston and one from Baltimore, pleaded guilty today in connection with the sex trafficking of a 15-year-old girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Building Developer Agrees To Accessibility Retrofits, Additional Inspections, And Fund To Compensate Aggrieved Persons; Suit Against Architect Goes Forward.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Last year, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) suspended issuing exit permits for internationally adopted children, including medically fragile children. Hundreds of adoptive families have been impacted by the suspension in the United States. Last week, Benjamin Chase Dillow,...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - REGINALD WILLIAMS was sentenced to 240 months on multiple charges involving the interstate transportation of two minors with the intent to engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an eight-count superseding indictment charging Sergei Davidoff, aka Sergiu Davidov, aka Sammy Davidoff, aka Sergio Da Vido, age 53 and a native of Siberia, Russia, with multiple counts of identity theft, fraudulent use of credit cards and identification documents, counterfeiting Social Security cards, and aggravated identity theft, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Iurie Stratenco, 26, a citizen of Moldova, who was convicted of wire fraud, was sentenced to eight months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $20,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Charity Brocchini, 40, of Sonora, has been charged with embezzling more than $42,000 from the Yosemite National Park Child Care Center, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. On Thursday, August 7, 2014, a federal grand jury in Fresno returned an indictment charging her with two counts of wire fraud and one count of embezzlement concerning program receiving federal funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Melchor Arroyos, 53, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 120 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - House of Oxford Inc., of New Jersey, and its officers agreed to forfeit to the United States more than $13.6 million in cash, property, jewelry, artwork, and luxury automobiles that were acquired with proceeds of the sale of tobacco products in California in a manner that evaded ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Ranferi Heredia-Cortez, a/k/a “Alexander Heredia-Cortez," a/k/a “Ranferi Alexander Cortez," a/k/a “Rafael Ramirez Zanbrano," 31, of Norristown, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal re-entry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Due to excessive erosion and damage to sensitive natural and cultural resources, the Crater Trail, a short trail located on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park, will remain closed to use for the remainder of this year. The Crater Trail is a one-mile long, dead end trail that is normally open...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a criminal Information was filed today charging a Philadelphia resident with participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin in the Hazleton area of Luzerne County during May through June of this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Alexander P. Gerth, 18, of Troy, Michigan, was sentenced on August 8, 2014, in federal...
