News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announces that the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the convictions and sentences of Wesley Running Shield and Michael Alford. The two were convicted by a federal jury in February 2015 of assault with a dangerous weapon and assault resulting in serious bodily injury. The two were each sentenced to 180 months’ imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Ricardo Silva-Hernandez, of Mexico, was sentenced to a time-served sentence after pleading guilty, on April 20, 2016, to illegally re-entering the United States after having been previously deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing several stolen firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Ryan Haskie, 29, of Fort Defiance, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Rosenblatt to a total of 63 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Haskie had previously pleaded guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury and admitted to violating his terms of supervised release in a previous case.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - Eight Florida residents were charged in an indictment that was unsealed today for their alleged participation in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme involving prescription compounding pharmacies located in the Tampa Bay area and in Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANDY DUGUE, also known as “Jimmy," 39, of Norwich, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of wire fraud stemming from his involvement in an insurance fraud scheme.
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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Kathryn Peterson Named Special Agent in Charge of Oklahoma City Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Defendant Stole Over $100,000 Worth of Military-Grade Equipment and Sold It On eBay Website and Over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Corn Creek, South Dakota, woman convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Aiding and Abetting was sentenced on August 4, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a variety of living history programs taking place at Point Park, on Lookout Mountain, and at Chickamauga Battlefield during Labor Day Weekend, September 3 &4.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announcing the hiring of a new permanent Chief Information Officer (CIO), David De Vries...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: The Director of the Intermountain Region, National Park Service (NPS), has signed a decision document that will enable the NPS Dam Safety Program to repair the Sprague Lake Dam in Rocky Mountain National Park. Although the dam is classified as having a Low Hazard Potential by the Federal Emergency Management...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Elijah Sykes-Bey, a/k/a LaLa, age 22, of Baltimore, today to 24 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise in connection with his gang activities as a member of the UDH organization, which operates in the Cherry Hill section of Baltimore.
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: He and Accomplices Committed Crimes in Broad Daylight.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Malik Mingo, 19, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to offenses stemming from two separate armed robberies of commercial businesses that were committed in broad daylight last year in Southeast Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Michael Mancil Brown, 37, of Franklin, Tenn., was sentenced late yesterday to 48 months in prison for engaging in an extortion and wire fraud scheme involving former presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax returns, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee; Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANDY DUGUE, also known as “Jimmy," 39, of Norwich, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of wire fraud stemming from his involvement in an insurance fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Genfry Martinez, 20, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 37 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute the Schedule II controlled substance fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
