News from August 2015
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The BLM Tres Rios Field Office is accepting public comments on a proposal to lease six parcels totaling 5,632 acres of public mineral estate in Dolores and Montezuma counties for the upcoming Feb. 11, 2016, oil and gas lease sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Scott D. Tesca, 39, of Mansfield, with armed bank robbery, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was arrested today for illegally possessing a firearm. CLIFFORD HORTON, 27, of Rockford, Ill., was charged yesterday by a federal grand jury in Rockford for possessing a.380 caliber pistol as a convicted felon. Horton is scheduled to be arraigned today at 1:00 p.m. before U.S. Magistrate Judge Iain D. Johnston in federal court in Rockford.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: To date, 30 individuals have been sentenced to federal prison in connection with this investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Collected more than $250,000 in retirement benefits in deceased mother’s name.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A commercial truck driver from Kensett, Arkansas, has entered a guilty plea to transporting undocumented aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Marcus Randall Johnston, 42, pleaded guilty this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Scott Hacker.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A former regional director of SAP International Inc. pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by participating in a scheme to bribe Panamanian officials to secure the award of government technology contracts for SAP. U.S. Attorney Melinda...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Juan Jose Rojas Pena, 20, of Youngstown, with attempting to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Inzi Controls of Alabama Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Justin Benedict Morales, 40, of San Angelo, Texas, appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy M. Koenig and pleaded guilty to one count of transportation of child pornography, announced John R. Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that BURNELL ALLEN, age 35, and SONNY ALLEN, age 32, both of New Orleans, were sentenced today after being convicted by a federal jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Two Cleveland women were indicted for a conspiracy in which they stole other people’s identities and collected more than $326,000 in false tax returns, law enforcement officials said.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building upon the Energy and Commerce Committee’s #RecordOfSuccess, President Obama recently signed into law H.R. 212, the Drinking Water Protection Act. The bipartisan legislation was sponsored by committee member Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH) and passed the Senate by voice vote last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy William Cook, 30, of Martinsburg, was convicted of heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE-Denise Romero, 27, of Los Ranchos, N.M., pleaded guilty today to robbing the New Mexico Bank & Trust branch located on 4th Street NW in Albuquerque, N.M., in March 2015. The guilty plea was entered without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA- On August 6, 2015, Jimmy Joe Misner, a 54 year-old resident of Atlantic, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Robert W. Pratt to 5 years in prison for the charge of receipt of child pornography. Judge Pratt also ordered that Misner serve 10 years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Cesar Arbelaez Tabares and Juan Carlos Bazantes have been arraigned after being indicted on federal charges of defrauding the IRS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by intentionally misrepresenting the employment status of construction workers on a federal contract.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 11, 2015 - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization will host a conference on Thursday, Aug. 13th in Owasso, Oklahoma. This event will provide small business owners located in rural areas with opportunities to learn how ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: A Starkville, Mississippi, couple was arrested over the weekend for allegedly conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: A California woman was sentenced to 130 months in prison for her role in a half-million dollar Costa Rica-based “sweepstakes fraud” scheme that victimized hundreds of U.S. residents.
