News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DEBRA BIAGI, 50, of Fogelsville, Pa., formerly of Greenwich, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to one count of wire fraud stemming from her theft of more than $700,000 from her employer and related companies and individuals.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) new small drone rule - formally known as Part 107 - is effective on August 29. You may also be wondering what happens to your Section 333 exemption grant or petition for exemption. View the video here.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- A California man, with ties to Miami, Oklahoma, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Claire V. Eagan to serve 210 months in prison to be followed by seven years of supervised release for sexual exploitation of a child, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Jose Ygnacio Sosa-Ramirez, 55, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced yesterday for illegally reentering the United States after having been previously removed, and violating the terms of his supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - An Akron, Ohio man is in federal custody in connection with a rash of heroin overdoses earlier this month in Huntington, United States Attorney Carol A. Casto and Huntington Chief of Police Joe Ciccarelli announced today. Bruce Lamar Griggs, 22, was arrested in Ohio and is being held on the basis of a federal criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of West Virginia, which charges Griggs with distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Kimberly McIntosh, age 47, of Baltimore today to two years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: FBI Increases Reward to $10,000 to Recover Stolen Equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A real estate developer and a former City of Worcester housing official were charged in U.S. District Court in Worcester this week in connection with a $2.3 million fraud scheme relating to the redevelopment of a multi-family property in Worcester.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A total of 16 defendants have been named thus far in a federal criminal complaint alleging a broad-ranging criminal conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and other drugs in both the Eastern and Northern Districts of California, announced United States Attorney Brian...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A documentary short following two lives in Alabama altered by heroin addiction will screen Sunday during the Birmingham Sidewalk Film Festival, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: HONOLULU -- Remington Colleges, Inc., an Arkansas non-profit corporation doing business as Remington College - Honolulu Campus ("Remington College"), will pay $295,442.00 to settle certain civil claims under the federal False Claims Act in an agreement signed on July 25, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: YAKIMA, Washington - The Bureau of Reclamation announced that it will begin the annual “flip-flop" operation in the Yakima Basin by gradually reducing flows out of Cle Elum Reservoir in the upper Yakima River basin and increasing flows from Rimrock Reservoir affecting flows in the Tieton and Naches Rivers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Kidnapping, Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation, and two counts of Child Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, Opposing, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: Three Individuals Indicted for $2.5 Million High-Yield Investment Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Mexican national pleaded guilty today to an immigration crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Edilberto Sanchez-Galvan, 35, entered his guilty plea to illegally reentering the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: Reward offered for info aiding arson investigation in Ozark National Scenic Riverways.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was charged with a federal weapons violation for allegedly selling handguns and ammunition out of his home in the North Lawndale neighborhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Two men were charged in U.S. District Court here Thursday with robbing a Leawood bank, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that BRIAN CAVALIER, age 34, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been sentenced to serve ninety-two (92) months in federal prison, as a result of his convictions for making threats by mail, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section...
