News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: A North St. Louis man will serve 30 years in federal prison for robbing two convenience stores and shooting a store clerk in 2010. Leslie Woods, 23, was sentenced yesterday in the U.S. District Court to 30 years in prison for his role in the June 17, 2010 armed robbery and shooting that that occurred...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jacob Davis, age 32, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 57 months’ imprisonment by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy, for selling heroin in the Hazleton area during the summer of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A member of MS-13’s Enfermos Criminales Salvatrucha clique in Chelsea was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for RICO conspiracy involving the assault of two rival gang members.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: Stolen Personal Identification Information Funded Purchases and Investments.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Travis Sanchez Hunt, age 23, of Greenville, South Carolina, entered a guilty plea this morning in federal court in Greenville to Possessing Firearms in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime, in violation of Title 18 U.S.C.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has reopened recreation sites along the Merced River as the Detwiler Fire nears containment and river flows normalize. The Briceburg Visitor Center, and Cable Rock day-use area, as well as the McCabe Flat, Willow Placer, and Railroad Flat campgrounds are now open for public use and enjoyment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston-area hedge fund manager was arrested and charged today in federal court in Boston with running a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, today called on U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to investigate China’s forced technology transfer policies and take action to stop China from pressuring U.S. tech manufacturers to sacrifice intellectual property as a cost of doing business in China.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford D. Johnson, announces that Japheth Sims, age 29, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced before United States District Court Judge Theresa Springmann on his plea of guilty to the crime of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
By State Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Promise, South Dakota man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on July 24, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Cameron Banks (a/k/a Reggie Staggers), age 32, of Georgetown, S.C., was charged in a seven-count federal indictment with Health Care Fraud, in connection with an alleged scheme to submit fraudulent loan applications for dental services.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: POCATELLO - Ruben Wounded Head, III, 20, of Chubbuck, Idaho, was sentenced today to a total of 46 months imprisonment for involuntary manslaughter resulting from a drunk driving crash, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez, announced. Wounded Head will serve 34 months in federal prison in addition to the 12 months he already served in Fort Hall Tribal Jail on the same charge, for a total of 46 months. Wounded Head pleaded guilty to the charges in federal court in May 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: Defendant Killed Two Individuals while Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - John Stuart Bruce, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging EDUARDO AREVOLO, age 40, of Honduras, JOSE DAGOBERTO FUNEZ-PAGOADA, age 40, of Honduras, FELICIANO PACHECO-BAUTISTO, age 47, of Mexico, and JOSE SEVILLA-CRUZ, age 35, of Honduras, with Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today before United States District Judge I. Leo Glasser in Brooklyn, New York, Carolyn Richardson was sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for operating a sophisticated scheme to fraudulently obtain and distribute thousands...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, co-defendants Allen E. Peithman, Jr., Sharon A. Elder, were sentenced, respectively, to 129 months and 63 months in prison and fined $500,000 each. They were both ordered to pay over $5,000 in restitution, and their...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: Former Chief Financial Officer Has Pleaded Guilty to Related Charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for a federal firearm offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to federal firearms offenses.
