News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Alexander Alcerro-Romero, of Honduras, pleaded guilty to a one-count indictment alleging that he illegally reentered the United States after having been previously deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Dean Lynn Christiansen, 70, of Sacramento, was sentenced today to eight years and one month in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for receiving child pornography, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. also ordered Christiansen to pay a $17,500 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - National Park Service fire managers on the North Rim of Grand Canyon have decided to manage the Fuller Fire for multiple objectives.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA -Most of Death Valley National Park will be without electricity on Saturday, July 9 from 6:00am until 6:00pm. Visitor and employee safety is a concern because temperatures are forecasted to reach 116 °F.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 77 months imprisonment, followed by three years supervised release, on charges of bank robbery. Calvin Douglas Smith was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $3,266.00, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has found Joshua Adam Tatro (24, Merritt Island) guilty of 9 counts of producing child pornography, 3 counts of receiving child pornography, and 1 count of possessing child pornography. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years, up to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez sentenced today Ashemba Frett, 22, of Tortola, British Virgin Islands, to three months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release for encouraging and inducing aliens to illegally enter the United States, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Gomez ordered Frett to pay a $100 special assessment and perform 300 hours of community service.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: ALTAMONT, Ill. - Federal safety and health investigators found Altamont Ambulance Service Inc. failed to follow specific guidelines to protect emergency healthcare workers from exposure to bloodborne pathogens and other hazards while providing patient care.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Seven Los Angeles men were charged in a 10-count indictment unsealed today with participating in the 2014 firebombing of residences of African Americans living in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles. The defendants were also charged for their roles in a racketeering enterprise that used violence and intimidation to control the perceived territory of the Big Hazard street gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston for robbing the St. Anne’s Credit Union in New Bedford in September 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with the theft of more than $440,000 from a Spain-based seafood and fish distributor for which he served as the United States representative.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Seven Los Angeles men were charged in a 10-count indictment unsealed today with participating in the 2014 firebombing of residences of African Americans living in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles. The defendants were also charged for their roles in a racketeering enterprise that used violence and intimidation to control the perceived territory of the Big Hazard street gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Chad Jason Lansford (31, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to advertising for child pornography. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, up to 30 years, in federal prison. Lansford has been in federal custody since his arrest on March 12, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: MANHATTAN, KAN. - Almost 200 law enforcement officers and victim service providers from across Kansas will be in Manhattan Tuesday and Wednesday to team up in the fight against human trafficking, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: David Martin Admits to Breaking into a Federally Licensed Firearms Dealer and Stealing Handguns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Defendant was directed to launch attacks by deceased ISIL recruiter Junaid Hussain.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Thomas A. Coates, 30, formerly of Columbus, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to one count of racketeering conspiracy. Coates was originally scheduled to stand trial with Lance Green, who also pleaded guilty, on July 11 in the second of three trials involving the organized criminal enterprise known as the Short North Posse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio, a federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment against the highest ranking leaders of the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Organization (OMO) adding a murder charge and a new defendant to the federal racketeering indictment returned in January.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Instructed Restaurant Employees to Make False Statements to Federal Agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Cincinnati-Area Man Pleads Guilty to Plot to Attack U.S. Government Officers.
