News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Jason Reed, 22, of Boise, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States Magistrate Court to destruction of government property, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Reed was charged by an information filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a former high school teacher to five years in prison for receiving child pornography in connection with an improper relationship he had with a teenage student he met at the school, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ryan Joseph Chavez, 40, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to eight months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for assaulting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - A Mexican national and lawful permanent resident from Mission has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute marijuana and methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division. Felipe Rivera-Paredes, 55, pleaded guilty March 31, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a St. Joseph, Mo., man with a prior murder conviction was sentenced in federal court today on charges related to child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced SMITH MERINORD, 23, of Dunn to 865 months imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release and CORTESE TRAMAND DAVIS, 26, of Henderson to 528 months imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JASON GATTO, 34, of Gardiner, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 40 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for burglarizing a Connecticut residence and stealing approximately $2.5 million in jewelry.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Bishop Field Office, in coordination with the Inyo National Forest Mammoth Lakes Ranger District, has approved a proposal by Ormat Nevada Inc. to conduct a 30-day flow and injection test of two existing geothermal wells near the town of Mammoth Lakes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: DAYTON - Demian Pina, 35, of Dayton, Ohio, was sentenced to 210 months in prison for distributing child pornography in 2012 while he was under federal investigation for sharing child pornography dating back to 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Gladstone, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today on charges related to receiving and attempting to distribute child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors today charged a former administrative law judge for the Social Security Administration for engaging in a sex act with, and other activities related to a Social Security beneficiary, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, SSA-Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Margaret Jackson and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JASON GATTO, 34, of Gardiner, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 40 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for burglarizing a Connecticut residence and stealing approximately $2.5 million in jewelry.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: In El Paso today, 44-year-old Elizabeth “Betty" Garcia de Nieto of Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico, was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $3,009,999.80 restitution to the Government for her role in an income tax return scheme that resulted in fraudulent refunds being issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and IRS-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge William Cotter.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Georgia Man Sentenced to 57 Months in Prison for Immigration Fraud for Failing to Disclose Role in Bosnian Prison Camp.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Mladen Mitrovic has been sentenced to four years, nine months, in prison after being convicted earlier this year of naturalization fraud. The evidence at his trial showed that Mitrovic provided false and fraudulent information in his naturalization application to hide his work as a prison guard in a concentration camp that was part of the infamous “ethnic cleansing" that occurred during the Bosnian War in 1992.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A federal prison inmate pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of credit/debit card fraud and identity theft, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Robert A. Gist, who defrauded investors by lying about their investments, has pleaded guilty to a charge of mail fraud. The defendant used investors’ money to pay his personal expenses and to fund operations of a company in which he had a personal interest.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Coeur d’Alene, ID - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has completed analysis for proposed vegetative treatments and recreation enhancements at the Wallace L. Forest Conservation Area at Blue Creek Bay east of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The Coeur d’Alene Field Office is seeking comments on the proposed activities through Sept. 26, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Patterson man was sentenced to 60 months in prison Monday for his role in a scheme to use stolen identities to file false tax returns and pocket refunds.
