News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: Angelica’s Record Distributors to Pay $250,000 in Restitution to Recording Industry Association of America, Forfeit $250,000, and More Than 150,000 Counterfeit CDs and DVDs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr., announced today that Darnell Kenneth-Maurice Brown, 23, Zackary Ian Cender, 19, and Charles Milton Fortune, 22, of East Lansing, Michigan, have been sentenced for their roles in the attempted robbery of Paul Medawar Fine Jewelry that occurred...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Raymond James Ripley, Sr., 29, of New Cumberland, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the financial comptroller of a North Kansas City, Mo., business was indicted by a federal grand jury today for a wire fraud scheme in which he embezzled more than $247,000 from his employer over five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that OSCAR HUACHILLO, the former owner and operator of multiple HIV/AIDS clinics in New York City, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 87 months in prison for orchestrating a scheme to defraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges he pointed a gun at a woman and pushed her out a driver’s side door before stealing her car, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Lanier Treatment Center, Inc., a narcotic treatment program, located in Gainesville, Ga., has agreed to pay a civil settlement of $20,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the recordkeeping requirements of the Controlled Substances Act. Lanier Treatment Center, Inc., also has agreed to additional oversight from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: Ajo, Az - Beginning this month, the Ajo Mountain Scenic Drive will face periodic closures as sections of the road are upgraded. Currently, closures are not expected to last beyond one day at a time as crews prepare the road for upgrades.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL MASLAR, 59, of Meriden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 151 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release for bank robbery, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man who admitted that he tried to rob a Bank of America branch in Dallas in 2013 was sentenced yesterday, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Eyob Tilahun, the owner of a local tax return preparation business known as "Tax King," was indicted on charges of conspiring to submit false claims to the United States Government and Aiding and Abetting the Filing of False Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges he pointed a gun at a woman and pushed her out a driver’s side door before stealing her car, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A 37-year-old heroin dealer is the latest, and last, defendant to appear in federal court and plead guilty to a felony drug offense stemming from his role in the March 2014 heroin overdose death of a Dallas teenage girl, Rian Hannah Lashley, announced John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Randolph, 31, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Newcomb, N.M., was sentenced this morning in Albuquerque, N.M., for an aggravated sexual abuse charge. Randolph was sentenced to 144 months in prison followed by ten years of supervised release. He will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Aug. 21, 2015, Brian Curtis Henton, 38, of Olathe, Kansas, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to 12 months and one day in federal prison based on his earlier guilty pleas to two counts of mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: On Aug. 24, 2015, Eddie Lee Perry, aged 44, of Cairo, Georgia; Joseph Davenport, aged 52, of Thomasville, Georgia; and Chad Ragin, aged 42, of Opalocka, Florida were convicted in United States District Court of all counts of an indictment charging them with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: This is the third year NOAA’s Marine Debris Program has awarded grants through its Marine Debris Prevention through Education and Outreach grant competition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: Defendant was One of 21 Individuals Charged as Result of 2013 Multi-Agency Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: Rock Island, Ill. - A federal grand jury returned indictments last week charging three men in separate, unrelated cases with federal gun charges in the Rock Island Division of the Central District of Illinois, as announced by U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis. The indictments had remained sealed pending the defendants’ arrests and court appearances.
