News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - On Aug. 8, 2016, Michael K. Judy, 62, of Smoke Signal, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 24 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Judy had previously pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: As darkness falls in the southern mountains, the historic Hensley Settlement in Cumberland Gap National Historical Park becomes the stage for a shooting star spectacular!Its remote location high upon Brush Mountain provides an incredible opportunity to view the night sky and the famous Perseid meteor shower.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 30 count indictment charging 17 defendants with multiple narcotics offenses for their role in a drug trafficking organization that utilized contacts and sources of supply from Mexico, California...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: OAKLAND- After an approximately three-month trial, four Nuestra Familia gang members have been convicted for their roles in a wide-ranging racketeering conspiracy that involved several murders, drug trafficking, and firearms offenses, among other related offenses. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Sergio Yeremi Martinez-Mejia, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced to a time-served sentence after pleading guilty, on May 2, 2016, to falsely claiming that he was assigned a social security number that was in fact assigned to another person.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Brea man pleaded guilty this morning to federal charges related to his role as the owner and operator of a multi-million dollar fraudulent mortgage modification scheme that posed as a successful law firm to defraud struggling homeowners.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today touted new data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) showing strong second year results from the Independence at Home Demonstration, which provides primary care services to Medicare beneficiaries in their...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on August 9, 2016, Kee Thao, of Minneapolis, Minn., was sentenced before US District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve 20 years in federal prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance. Following his incarceration, Judge Erickson ordered that Thao serve 30 years of supervised release due to his violent criminal history involving women and pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Henry Joseph Williams, 50, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to bank fraud before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: An explosion from Kīlauea volcano’s summit Saturday evening flung chunks of molten and solid rock onto the rim of Halema‘uma‘u Crater, turned night into day, and destroyed the power system for scientific equipment used to monitor the volcano.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Bradley K. Boyd, 44, of Rhome, TX, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Yesterday, William Ken Huebbe, 31, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 11 years in prison. Huebbe had previously pleaded guilty to transportation of illegal aliens resulting in death. His co-defendant, Robert Evan Butcher Jr., 26, also of Tucson, Ariz. was previously sentenced to 48 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state of New Mexico today announced a settlement with Chevron Mining Inc. (CMI) requiring $143 million in cleanup work at the Chevron Questa Mine Superfund site near Questa, New Mexico. As part of the settlement...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that on August 8, 2016, Defendants ERIC TEDTAOTAO AND MACRINA TEDTAOTAO, husband and wife, were sentenced by the Honorable Ramona Manglona, Chief Judge, in the District Court of Guam.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Liberty Master, Inc., 903 Curtis Lane, Scranton, Pennsylvania
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An associate of the DeCavalcante organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his role in distributing more than 500 grams of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse and Sexual Abuse of a Person Incapable of Consent.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Brenda Honena, 52, of Blackfoot, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to the theft of money from the Fort Hall Elementary School in 2012, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Honena was indicted by the federal grand jury in Pocatello on Feb. 23, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jared Miller, age 28, a Sayre, Pennsylvania resident, and Aaron Vanderpool, age 34, a Wysox, Pennsylvania resident, have been charged in separate Criminal Informations with firearms and controlled substance offenses associated with a May 2015 gun store burglary in Bradford County.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has released the 2016 Annual Statistical Update of Firearm Commerce in the United States.
