News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Orange County woman who worked at a local credit union in Hawthorne and her online boyfriend have been named in a superseding indictment that alleges a conspiracy in which the woman secretly opened more than 30 fraudulent lines of credit for her boyfriend, who was able to draw down approximately $1.1 million before the scheme was discovered.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jose Manuel Lua Guizar, 27, of California, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more or cocaine, and money laundering conspiracy before U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Gabriel Sanchez-Madris, 41, and Mark Espinoza, 26, charging them with manufacturing marijuana and conspiring to do the same, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The next melter to process high-level radioactive waste at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently arrived at its new home in the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a seven-count indictment today against Omar Manuel Ramirez, 34, of Fresno, charging him with conspiracy to distribute marijuana, manufacture of marijuana, money laundering conspiracy, and money laundering, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Maryland. Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. Contact ELIZABETH MORSE. www.justice.gov/usao/md at (410) 209-4885. Former Bail Bondsman conspired with Licensed Drug Counselor to conceal violations of federal defendants from United States Probation and Pretrial...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: ST. LOUIS, Mo. - - James Shroba, Special Agent in Charge of the St. Louis Division Office, today announced two additional individuals indicted and charged in DEA’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF) “Alice in Wonderland" were sentenced to federal prison for distributing cocaine in southern...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has pled guilty to the charge of theft of government money, stemming from her receipt and use of social security benefits to which she knew she was not entitled, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Benjamin G. Greenberg, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce the filing of federal charges against Carmen Silvia Rodriguez in connection with a fraud scheme to steal over $2.6 million from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to using a baseball bat to rob over $200,000 from an armored vehicle and for stealing 18 firearms, including a suppressor, from a gun store, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two men today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers out of $25 million by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick and New Jersey Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: BOZEMAN - As part of ongoing efforts required under the 2016 Yellowstone Grizzly Bear Conservation Strategy to monitor the population of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the USGS and Yellowstone National Park would like to inform the public that biologists with the Interagency Grizzly...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two Detroit, Mich., men were sentenced in federal court today for robbing a Springfield, Mo., jewelry store.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - A Chicago-area man who pleaded guilty to attempting to travel to Mexico to engage in sex with children has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison, following a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Tucson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
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By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - The last co-conspirator from the Loren Toelle drug trafficking organization was sentenced yesterday to prison, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. The sentence was part of a significant drug investigation and prosecution under the Department of Justice’s Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) program. The sentence was handed down by Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MARTHA OJEDA, age 41, of Pflugerville, Texas, was charged in a one-count Bill of Information with interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: STRONG CITY, Kansas: Who knew that clogging and quilts go together? Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is pleased to announce the upcoming annual Labor Day weekend quilt display in the historic barn from September 2 - 4, 2017. New this year is the “clogging rangers" providing clogging demonstrations and instruction among the quilts on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017 from 1:00 to 1:45 p.m. and then again at 2:00 - 2:45 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Byron Harold Peshlakai, 26, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 30 months in prison for his involuntary manslaughter conviction. Peshlakai will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
