News from August 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - The chief executive officer of an Orange County check-cashing business was arrested Tuesday morning on federal charges for allegedly procuring and illegally exporting rifle scopes, laser boresighters, and other tactical equipment from the United States to Syria in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On July 28, 2017heather Jean Reekr, Hubert Theodore Carter, III, 35, from Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to 27 months in prison for bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Carter was ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Mickey Gilley, 34 of West Bath, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to distributing heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: Co-defendants admitted to concealing the criminal activities from law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City man was sentenced Monday to more than five years in federal prison for bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Four more defendants who were convicted in a marijuana trafficking and money laundering conspiracy have been ordered to federal prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Ricardo Ramirez, 31, and Leslie Bernice Trejo, 24, both of Laredo; and Salvador Saldana Medrano, 38, and Laura Heredia Garcia, 52, both of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, had all previously pleaded guilty for their roles in the respective conspiracies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: Spokane- Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that, on Aug. 1, 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed United States District Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson’s order denying a preliminary injunction in the Alliance of the Wild Rockies’ (AWR) challenge to the Colville National Forest’s North Fork Mill Creek A to Z Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Brittany Banscher, age 23, a resident of Hawley, Pennsylvania was sentenced on July 28, 2017, by United States District Court Senior Judge James M. Munley to serve 19 years’ imprisonment for drug distribution resulting in death.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $7.8 million in support of eleven projects to unlock private-sector resources for energy innovation. The projects, part of DOE's Innovative Pathways program, are designed to address the systemic barriers currently preventing the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX- Yesterday, Paula Anthony, 65, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 36 months in prison for her role in a stolen identity and money laundering scheme.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 100,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to Colombia during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: Defendant Alleged to Have Set Fire to the Building at 605 Union Street in Schenectady.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 55-year-old Brownsville woman has entered a plea to one count of sex trafficking of a nine-year-old girl, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man and a Willard, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Greene County, Mo., and in a money-laundering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced John S. Mattingly, age 71, of Charlotte Hall, Maryland, to 3 years supervised release that includes 18 months of home confinement for bank fraud in connection with a scheme to steal funds from St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, while he was the pastor. Judge Chasanow also ordered Mattingly to pay $400,000 in restitution, which Mattingly paid prior to the sentencing hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Sextortion Scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Yesterday afternoon, Robert O. Moore, 68, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced in federal court for his bank fraud conviction. Moore was sentenced to a 27-month term of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. Moore also was ordered to pay $150,535.10 in restitution to the victim of his criminal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 54-year-old legal permanent resident alien who was living in Alabama has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of importing heroin in to the country, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Baltazar Vazquez-Vargas pleaded guilty April 4, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of a criminal Complaint charging PATRICK MURACA with...
