News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: First time human trafficking customer prosecuted in Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - The chief executive officer of an Orange County check-cashing business was arrested this morning on federal charges that accuse him of 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 Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
Release: QUEENS, N.Y. - Transportation Security Administration officers caught two Australian brothers trying to smuggle gun parts onto an airplane departing John F. Kennedy International Airport last week by concealing some of the components in their undergarments.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On July 28, 2017, Francisco Javier Ledesma Santa Cruz, 27, from Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to 42 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Ledesma Santa Cruz will serve one year of supervised release following his imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: A Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy was sentenced today to a total of 60 months in prison by United States District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks after previously admitting to the Court that he had provided personally identifying information to another individual who used that information in an identity theft scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Yorba Linda man who owns a Gardena company that contracted with the U.S. Army to overhaul linear actuators used on Apache helicopters pleaded guilty to violating his contract with the military by making unauthorized repairs to motors inside the part.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Donald Burton, 51, of Vallejo, pleaded guilty today for his part in a bribery scheme involving city contracts, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: KOTZEBUE, Alaska - No one visits Kobuk Valley National Park because it’s easy. A remote park in Alaska north of the Arctic Circle, Kobuk Valley rewards those intrepid enough to venture there. It’s the wonder and promise of true wilderness that draws you to Kobuk Valley. It’s the fish-filled, meandering...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Twaski Jackson (38, Lee County) today pleaded guilty to a two count information charging him with stealing and embezzling thousands of dollars from the City of Fort Myers Housing Authority and the Lee County Housing...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Ashley Attson, 23, of Chinle, Ariz., an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David C. Campbell to 20 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for killing her 17-month-old daughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - A former nurse, who previously pled guilty to tampering with a consumer product, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: An Akron man was indicted on federal firearms charges. Quincey T. Smith, 26, was indicted on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The indictment alleges that on or about June 28, 2017, Smith did knowingly possess in and affecting interstate and foreign commerce, a 9mm ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX- Yesterday, Reed O’Brien Thomas, Jr., 27, from Dennehotso, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 13 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Thomas had previously pleaded guilty to assaulting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Two Kansas men pleaded guilty Monday to taking part in a scheme to steal mail from Wichita mailboxes using a counterfeit mailbox master key, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
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 was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: California Resident Sentenced to Prison in Fraudulent Refund and Stolen Treasury Check Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On July 11, 2017, a federal Grand Jury in Greeneville returned a 49-count indictment against the following individuals for their roles in the distribution of methamphetamine.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A Seattle man was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in federal prison for importing and possessing with intent to distribute crystal methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: Conspiracy Used Information from California Death Records to Seek Tax Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, United States District Court Judge Michael J. McShane sentenced Florentino Ambriz-Banderas, 49, to 140 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and illegal reentry. Following his prison sentence, Ambriz-Banderas will be on supervised release for 5 years.
