News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: FBI Announces an Arrest in Connection with Bank Robbery in Plantation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: Former Opa Locka City Manager David Chiverton and former Opa Locka Assistant Public Works Director Gregory Harris have been charged for their participation in a two-year long bribery and extortion under color of official right conspiracy, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 371, 666(a)(1)(B), and 1951(a).
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Labor released its employment report for July...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that it has reached an agreement with Connecticut and state officials to resolve claims that the state failed to provide voter registration opportunities required by Section 5 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA).
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement in support of the California appellate court ruling, which dismissed a lawsuit demanding the removal of a memorial dedicated to Comfort Women...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on Aug. 2, 2016, David Johnson, 24, of New York City was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison after his guilty plea to charges that he possessed with intent to distribute heroin. U.S. District Court Judge J. Garvan Murtha also ordered that Johnson serve three years of supervised release after his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On August 5, 2016, Julio Rodríguez-Marquez and Josué Méndez-Rivera were charged by way of a criminal complaint with conspiring to engage in the business of dealing in firearms without a license, and with dealing in firearms without a license, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Muhammad Faridi, 40, the former owner of the McAllen Medical Clinic, appeared this afternoon before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge stemming from his involvement in a “pill mill" operation, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma -TRACI LORRE OWENS, 47, of Edmond, Oklahoma, today entered a guilty plea to embezzlement from a Canadian County charity for child crime victims, announced Mark A. Yancey, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Neftali Perea-Zuniga, 30, a Colombian national, was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for his role in nearly 40 burglaries he committed in Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri from 2010 through 2013. Perea-Zuniga was also ordered to forfeit $790,436 and ordered to pay $630,336.36 in restitution to his victims. Perea-Zuniga will be deported after serving his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On August 5, 2016, Julio Rodríguez-Marquez and Josué Méndez-Rivera were charged by way of a criminal complaint with conspiring to engage in the business of dealing in firearms without a license, and with dealing in firearms without a license, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Aaron Dashawn Caple, 23, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno to 54 months in federal prison following Caple’s convictions of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft offenses, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: Former Homer, Louisiana, Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Civil Rights Violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: AUG 05 - HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, United States Attorney Deirdre M. Daly and Chief State’s Attorney Kevin T. Kane today announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found Karl Roye, also known as “Eagle," 25, ...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
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By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Cleto Tarin, 53, most recently of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John McBryde to 420 months in federal prison, following his conviction at trial earlier this year on one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: FBI Knoxville Participates in IC3 Campaign.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: Steven Rice, 41, of Barrington, NJ, was charged by Indictment, filed August 4, 2016, with four counts of bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment specifically charges that Rice robbed or attempting to rob: (i) the Beneficial Bank, 1600 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal agents on Thursday arrested a former Fairfield Police Department custodian on federal firearms charges returned by a grand jury on July 26, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Hyche.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - Three federally-funded river restoration projects that will utilize salvaged timber to create prime anadromous fish habitat for Coho salmon and other species were launched this week in the Rogue River Basin.
