News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Buford investment advisor Blake Bancroft Richards has been sentenced for stealing over $3.2 million from his clients. The defendant used client funds to make personal loan payments, take personal trips, and pay other personal expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a federal grand jury returned a 32-count indictment, unsealed today, charging six company officials of Explo Systems Inc. of defrauding the federal government and committing federal offenses relating to a munitions demilitarization contract with the U.S. Army.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The United States Attorney's Office announced today Mark N. Kirsch, 57, former President and Business Manager of Operating Engineers Local 17, based in Hamburg, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit racketeering and Hobbs Act conspiracy, was sentenced to 36 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The defendant was also ordered to pay $198,121.50 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Deidre Smith, a/k/a Deidre Fowler, 43, of Bangor, Maine, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to unlawfully entering the United States without presenting herself at a border crossing point. Smith is currently unemployed and is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARK W. IRVIN, 64, of Meriden, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Defendants were Charged in April 2016 based on OCDETF Operation Targeting Methamphetamine Traffickers in Northwestern New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Luz Ramos-Correa, 39, of Landisville, PA, Marta Ruiz-Correa, 28, of Penuelas, Puerto Rico, and Julian Ruiz-Acosta, 58, of Penuelas, Puerto Rico, were charged by indictment, unsealed today, with conspiracy and fraudulent transfer of an identification document, and Luz Ramos-Correa was further charged...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: All charged with Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) practices.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: McNeely had one of the 21 firearms stolen from Outpost Guns, in Sturgis, Michigan, on Nov. 12, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Randy Exavier Greene, 21, formerly of Stratford, Texas, appeared yesterday in federal court before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and pleaded guilty to a superseding information charging one count of conspiracy to use an interstate commerce facility in the commission of murder-for-hire.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Canadian man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with his role in a drug trafficking and money laundering organization that imported marijuana and MDMA, the club drug also known as “ecstasy" or “mollie", from Canada into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Federal prosecution resulted from “Project Recoil".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Law enforcement recovered a gun, drugs, and knives after car chase that began in St. Albans and ended in Nitro.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Contact: Aly Baltrus. Springdale, UT- Visitation at Zion National Park continues to increase dramatically. Holidays and long weekends have been experiencing especially intense visitation. The park anticipates Labor Day, 2016 to be especially busy. Last year 75,000 people visited Zion over Labor Day weekend.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - To ensure the safety of visitors and employees, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park will close at noon today until it is deemed safe to reopen.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: A Doral resident was convicted by a federal jury for conspiracy to import five or more kilograms of cocaine and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Aug. 29, 2016, Shawn Michael Wegmann, 39, of Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 150 months in prison for felon in possession of a firearm, possession of a stolen firearm, and failure to appear, announced United States Attorney Kevin...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that yesterday Mark Betancourt, age 31, of Greenville, SC; Juan Betancourt, age 23, of Greenville, SC; and Joseph Sansosti, age 23, of Simpsonville, SC, entered guilty pleas in federal court in Greenville, to one count Hobbs...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A total of 19 people are charged in a six-count indictment, some of whom are alleged members of the Texas “Mexikan" Mafia (TMM) and charged with conspiring to violate the Racketeer Influence Corrupt Organization (RICO) statute, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Bycatch occurs when fishing operations discard unintentionally caught fish or interact with living marine resources such as marine mammals, sea turtles, seabirds, protected fish, corals and sponges.
