News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A tax return preparer who operated a local business under various names has been convicted of willfully aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of a false U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, announced acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Darren Small, 51, and Jayna Small, 40, husband and wife of Kinloch, MO, have entered pleas of guilty to charges in connection with their theft of funds from the Kinloch Fire Protection District.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting U.S. Attorney John J. Farley announced that Jesus Silva-Cruz, 42, a citizen of Cuba and an inmate at the federal correctional institution located in Berlin, New Hampshire was sentenced today to eight months in federal prison for possessing marijuana and possessing a prohibited object while an inmate at a federal prison. The sentence will run consecutively to the current sentence being served by Silva-Cruz.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The operators of seven sham medical clinics were among 12 defendants taken into custody Thursday morning on federal drug trafficking charges alleging they diverted at least two million prescription pills - including oxycodone and other addictive and dangerous narcotics - to the black market.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a man from Rayne was sentenced to 17 and a half years in prison for taking video and photographs of a juvenile girl and sending them to his laptop.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
Release: ARLINGTON, Va. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) stopped a Fairfax County, Virginia, man from bringing a handgun onto a flight yesterday (August 3).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Louisiana Return Preparer Pleads Guilty to Filing Fraudulent Returns.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - A Mexican national arrested in Wyoming, who has a prior conviction for fourth-degree child abuse and two convictions for child neglect, is among the 33 foreign nationals taken into custody during a four-day operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this week in western Michigan, targeting at-large criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants and other immigration violators.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., along with the entire Senate Democratic Caucus, announced legislation providing equal dignity for all legal marriages in the tax code. The Equal Dignity for Married Taxpayers Act, S. 1715, protects LGBTQ Americans from inequality and discrimination by removing gender-specific references to marriage in the tax code.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement marking the 10th Anniversary of enactment of H.R. 1, The Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (P.L. 110-53). On August 3rd, 2007, President Bush signed H.R. 1, originally written and sponsored by then-Chairman Thompson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former chief financial officer of a Kansas City, Mo., company pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling more than $6.5 million from his employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a mail carrier pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing gift cards and checks from postal customers in Independence, Mo.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Washington - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has proclaimed Aug. 6-12 to be National Farmers Market Week. This is the eighteenth year USDA has supported local producers by encouraging families to meet, and buy from, the farmers and other vendors at their local farmers market.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Betel Rosario Paulino, 18, of the Dominican Republic pleaded guilty on July 27, and Helwood Paris, 20, of Puerto Rico, pleaded guilty on Monday in District Court for their roles in the armed robbery of the McDonald’s restaurant on St. Thomas, Acting United States Attorney Joycelyn...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash. - Due to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Spokane District’s commitment to keeping public landscapes healthy and productive, fire restrictions on lands administered by the district have been modified to prohibit the building, maintaining, attending or using a fire of any type, including charcoal briquette fires.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Two men made their initial appearances today in federal court for bank fraud charges arising from a real estate scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steve W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Justin M. Nickell, 36, of Galloway, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 62-year-old Plano, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston and Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Dana J. Boente today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: DALLAS, TX-The FBI is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information directly leading to the arrest of Mark Anthony Ponce, who may be using the alias “Juan Pablo Hernández Villalón." Ponce is a violent fugitive wanted for capital murder and should be considered armed and dangerous.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Abdoulaye Barry, 25, of Jamaica, NY, who was convicted of possessing a fraudulent passport card and aggravated identity theft, was sentenced to 36 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
