News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: Two Broward County residents pled guilty for their involvement in an identity theft tax fraud scheme involving the trafficking in, use, and possession of unauthorized debit card account numbers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Los Angeles man has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to a series of burglaries in which well over 100 firearms were stolen from businesses operated by federal firearms licensees.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: "Everyone mount up!" This became a familiar call from Spanish Lt. Col. Juan Bautista de Anza. In 1776, while American patriots fought for their independence from England, Anza led some 240 men, women, and children on a 1,200 mile journey to settle Alta California. It was the first overland route from...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: The former Opa Locka City Manager pled guilty this morning to accepting bribes in furtherance of an illegal municipal corruption scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: A Youngstown man sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for firearms violations, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Shawna Tolpa, 48, of Moundsville, West Virginia, pled guilty in federal court today to embezzling over $52,000 from United Bank in Marshall County, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Tiauna Castro, 27, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to participating in a conspiracy to launder the proceeds from the illegal sale of dangerous painkillers, including oxycodone, in central Ohio.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has awarded $10.5 million in one-year federal safety and health training grants to 77 nonprofit organizations nationwide. The grants will provide training and education for workers and employers on the recognition, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIFELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Greene County, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of KIRSTEN ANN TJOSAAS, 38, for embezzling $5,773,410 from Fagen, Inc. (Fagen), an industrial contracting company for which she served as Chief Financial Officer. TJOSAAS pleaded guilty on May 6, 2016, to wire fraud and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland -Luis Guzman-Ventura, a/k/a “Casper," age 22, of Hyattsville, Maryland, pleaded today, just before the first day of trial, to conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, including participating in a murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Daniel Hull, 44 of Niagara Falls, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with receipt and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: Christopher B. Evans, age 25, faces up to five years in federal prison after admitting to pointing a laser in the flight path of a helicopter last year announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher B. Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: BOISE − Corry Blackmoon Bischoff, 39, of Pocatello, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court for failing to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Bischoff was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 8, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: Artist-in-Residence Lindsy Davis, a paper and printmaker, will be at Homestead National Monument of America October 3 - 17, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: Christopher B. Evans, age 25, faces up to five years in federal prison after admitting to pointing a laser in the flight path of a helicopter last year announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher B. Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: More than $6 Million in Fines and Restitution Imposed.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2016, and continues its tradition of sharing Hawaiian culture and After Dark in the Park (ADIP) programs with the public in October.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: Benjamin Lomas, 46, of New Hope, PA, plead guilty today to an Information charging evasion of payment of tax, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the information, Lomas willfully attempted to evade the full amount of income tax he owed for calendar years 2009 through 2012 by filing false information with the IRS and diverting money from his business for personal expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Daniel Quinn, 48, of Nashua, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to armed bank robbery, reports United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
