News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: FBI and Doraville Police Department Seek Armed Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Steven M. Montoya, 28, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to violating the federal firearms laws. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Montoya will be sentenced to 52 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: Riverside, Calif. - Today the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Los Angeles Division announced the arrest of four members of the Eastside Riverside gang, including its leader, Ernie “Gordo" Hernandez, 55. Ernie Hernandez and his three associates were charged earlier this week in federal court with distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JACQUELINE RAY, 60, of Biloxi, Mississippi, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information charging her with stealing over $1 million from Ochsner Clinic Federal Credit Union in connection with bank larceny during her employment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - Alphonso Dennis, 34, of Binghamton, New York, was sentenced to serve fifteen years in prison in connection with his convictions for sex trafficking of a child (four counts) and prostitution of a child (2 counts).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Lynn man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to stealing nearly $80,000 in veterans benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: LAKE CHARLES - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Lake Charles woman was sentenced to 15 months in prison for stealing more than $230,000 from her employer’s bank account.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio today, 28-year-old Samuel Eugene Baker of Kerrville, TX, was sentenced to 150 months in federal prison for receipt of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Long Beach man has pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge related to a long-running mortgage rescue scheme that involved nearly $3 million in illegal fees charged to distressed homeowners and about 200 fraudulent bankruptcy petitions.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: Employer name: D.R. Horton Inc. Garcia Carpentry LLC. Inspection site: The Meadows at Heath Brook, 4904 SW 58th Place, Ocala, Florida 34474. Citations issued: OSHA issued citations to the employers on Aug. 15, 2016. Investigation findings: Inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: Long time National Park Service (NPS) Facilities and Parks Manager Tim Hudson will spearhead efforts at the newly established Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, in Penobscot County, Maine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Columbia, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for an investment fraud scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: Washington D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, called for a hearing in September with officials from Mylan, which dramatically increased its price for EpiPens.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Raju Kosuri, 44, and Smriti Jharia, 45, a married couple from Ashburn, pleaded guilty today to charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and visa fraud, among other charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that LARRY DUPOR, age 44, a resident of Houston, pled guilty today to one count of conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and one count of attempt to distribute 100 grams or more heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio today, 28-year-old Samuel Eugene Baker of Kerrville, TX, was sentenced to 150 months in federal prison for receipt of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man, Joshua Sefnathn Chavez, 24, who admitted robbing or attempting to rob five banks in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex during the first two weeks of September 2015, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 125 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: After it's all over, your lights will be just as bright, and your refrigerator just as cold. But very soon the ampere -- the SI base unit of electrical current -- will take on an entirely new identity,* and NIST scientists are at work on an innovative, quantum-based measurement system that will be consistent with the impending change.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Two of the 19 defendants charged in the Nevada criminal case involving the armed standoff over Cliven Bundy’s trespassing cattle, pleaded guilty today to felony charges before Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PIERRE JEUDY, 56, 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.
