News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Huntington, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Karson Williams, 21, of Charleston, entered a guilty plea today to aiding and abetting the distribution of oxymporphone. During his plea hearing, Williams admitted that on Jan. 14, 2014, he sold a confidential informant...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II has sentenced Stephen Longest (27, Oviedo) to 10 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography. He was also ordered to pay $5,500 in restitution to a victim of the offense, and to forfeit the computers and electronic devices he had used to commit the crime. Longest pleaded guilty on April 2, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Julena Campbell or Amy Bartlett. (307)344-2015. e-mail us. Applications will be accepted starting Tuesday, Sept. 1, for those interested in obtaining a permit for a non-commercially guided snowmobile trip into Yellowstone National Park during the 2015-2016 winter season. A permit is required for all...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Jessica Lee Warner, age 39, of Baltimore, today to 30 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, in connection with a scheme to embezzle more than $179,000 from her employer. Judge Grimm also entered an order requiring Warner to pay restitution of $179,647.16, the amount she stole from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Richard Spriggs, Sr., 47, of Columbus, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, conspiracy to commit money laundering and unlawful possession of a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters to Warner West Pharmacy & Supplies and CVS Health after CBS News reported that the pharmacy submitted an insurance claim for more than $44,000 on behalf of one of its...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Georgia woman was sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison for helping conceal bribes an executive of the company that makes Glock firearms received from a Kansas firearms distributor for preferential treatment, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- Visitor facilities at Biscayne National Park reopened after Tropical Storm Erika. At 10 am on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015, all park islands and the mainland area at Convoy Point opened to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Former Silk Road Task Force Agent Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering and Obstruction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Information Technology Manager Pleads Guilty to Sending Damaging Computer Code to Former Company’s Servers.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: R. Casey Perkins (left) area director in Austin for the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration signs alliance with Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez (right) consul general for the Mexican Consulate in Austin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - D’mari Heyliger, 23, pleaded guilty today in District Court on St. Thomas to Possession of a Firearm with an Obliterated Serial Number and Possession of an Unlicensed Firearm, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 11, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: U.S. Conspirators Paid Over $2 Million to Influence Russian Nuclear Energy Official and to Secure Business with State-Owned Russian Nuclear Energy Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Mario Alberto Garcia-Balderas, 45, of Mexico, has been ordered to prison following his convictions related to unlawful possession of firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Kansas Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison in Plot to Explode Car Bomb at Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: United States Extradites Suspect in Quadruple Murder to the Czech Republic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Dominic Tyrel Holland, 28, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 40 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for his bank robbery conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez on Monday sentenced Eilin Castillo, 37, of the Dominican Republic, to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release for Possession of a Firearm by an Illegal Alien, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months in jail and ordered to forfeit $142,780 and a Cadillac Escalade on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
