News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo.-area man has been charged with robbing four banks in Independence, Liberty and Kansas City - three of them in the past two weeks.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - Raul Barocio, 47, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court yesterday to 63 months in prison for his role as a source of supply in a cocaine trafficking ring. Barocio pleaded guilty in April 2016 to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 40-year-old Brownsville resident has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge of the Houston Division, Joseph M. Arabit and Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Isaac Pedraza pleaded guilty Jan. 11, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Following a four-day trial before U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay, yesterday a federal jury convicted Victor Manuel Solorzano, 32, of Dallas, of five counts stemming from the Nov. 19, 2015 armed assault of two federal law enforcement officers in southwest Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington today sentenced Tyler Dwayne Waddle (35, Tampa) to 19 years and 7 months in federal prison for transporting child pornography. The Court also ordered him to forfeit an iPod Touch, which he had used to store and send this child pornography. Waddle pleaded guilty on Jan. 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Michael L. Fischer, age 42, of Toledo, Ohio, today to 10 years in federal prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release, for travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. Fisher traveled from Ohio to Maryland to engage in sexual activity with a fifteen-year-old girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Robert Wesley Henry, III, 38, of Boise, Idaho pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to failing to register as a sex offender, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Henry was indicted by a Boise grand jury on Jan. 10, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -A Vestavia Hills man pleaded guilty today in federal court to making a false statement to the FBI in relation to payments he received from a contractor providing inmate health care at the Jefferson County Jail, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man was sentenced today to 88 months in prison for targeting the elderly as part of a telemarking scam that resulted in the loss of nearly $1.2 million, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: The man who attacked a National Park Service employee in Chiricahua National Monument has been sentenced to serve 76 years in prison. The sentence was handed down yesterday in Cochise County court. Gil Gaxiola, age 33, was convicted in March of Attempted First Degree Murder, Armed Robbery, three counts of Aggravated Assault, Kidnapping, and motor vehicle theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: PITTSBUGH - Two Pittsburgh residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of distribution of Oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance, and Amphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance, outside the usual course of professional practice, and health care fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark, New Jersey, man today admitted robbing four banks in August and September 2016, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: UTICA, NEW YORK - Obinna Obioha, age 31, and a citizen of Nigeria, pled guilty today to wire fraud, and admitted to participating in a scheme to hack into computers and email accounts in the United States for the purpose of stealing money from American companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Donald Ray Boles, 59, of Wilmington, Vermont, was sentenced on April 17, 2017, in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve 120 months in federal prison after his conviction at trial for possession of child pornography. U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III also ordered Boles to serve a 10-year period of supervised release and to pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic City, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to six months in prison and six months home confinement for his role in a conspiracy to defraud the IRS of $119,880 in income taxes over three years, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Beginning at 8 a.m. Friday, April 21, 2017, select roads in Yellowstone National Park will open for the season. Roads include.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles man who pleaded guilty to illegally engaging in the business of importing tobacco products was sentenced today to eight months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Donald Ray Boles, 59, of Wilmington, Vermont, was sentenced on April 17, 2017, in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve 120 months in federal prison after his conviction at trial for possession of child pornography. U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III also ordered Boles to serve a 10-year period of supervised release and to pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement with BioFusion Health Products Inc., based in Rapid City, South Dakota. The settlement resolves claims that BioFusion violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (“USERRA”) when it failed to ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has settled a case that arose from a 1993 compliance review of NationsBank, N.A., that found systematic hiring violations involving African-American applicants for entry-level jobs and led to more than two decades of litigation. NationsBank merged with the Bank of America, N.A. in 1998.
