News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: Store sold uninspected meat, poultry, and egg products.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A Nuevo Laredo man and a Laredo woman have been ordered to federal prison for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic drugs via the World Trade Bridge, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - The United States Attorney’s Office will join law enforcement and community leaders on Tuesday, Aug. 1, in Bridgeport, Clarksburg, Martinsburg, and Wheeling as part of the annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention event, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Nevada physician practicing as a specialist in pain management was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for distribution of large quantities of highly addictive prescription opioids, including oxycodone, and other controlled substances without a medical purpose, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Kent J. Dawson ordered a fine in the amount of $2.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: On July 12, 2017, Austin K. Sims was indicted for three charges relating to the unlawful sale of firearms, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. After a detention hearing held on July 26, 2017, the federal district court in Benton ordered that Sims be held without bond pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Topeka, Kan., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to a conspiracy that attempted to obtain nearly $445,000 in fraudulent federal income tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Thurman Stanley, age 40, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, to 188 months’ imprisonment for transporting women in interstate commerce for purposes of prostitution and trafficking in heroin, “molly," and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: A Parma man was sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison for sexually exploiting a 14-year-old girl, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jesus Santos, age 37, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A Nuevo Laredo man and a Laredo woman have been ordered to federal prison for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic drugs via the World Trade Bridge, announced DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven Whipple, Houston Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: A Philadelphia man was sentenced to eight months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States and to aiding and abetting the filing of false claims for tax refunds, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Louis D. Lappen for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Sioux Falls, SD, man pleaded guilty in federal court to Kidnapping.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a Finding of No Significant Impact for the issuance of land use authorizations to the County of Madera for the Tesoro Viejo Master Planned Community. Tesoro Viejo is bisected by Reclamation’s Madera Canal and Lateral 6.2 and would impact approximately 11 acres of waters of the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A former employee at Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas (Parkland), Viju Mathew, and his wife, Mariamma Viju, a registered nurse who worked at Baylor University Medical at Dallas (Baylor), who pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from their theft/unlawfully obtaining patient identification information, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
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: Robert J. Spears, 35, a Nashville resident and tax return preparer, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to one count of preparing a false tax return for his client and one count of filing his own false tax return, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jack Smith of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Zoe Lofgren, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, launched an investigation into reports that officials at U.S. Customs...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: Wright Brothers National Memorial and the First Flight Society invite you to celebrate National Aviation Day on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017. The park will be open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm and entrance fees will be waived for the event. The opening ceremony will begin at 9:45 am at the large covered tent...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On July 28, 2017, United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger sentenced Jeffrey B. Lackas, Stanley Szeto, and Daniel Cruz-Bonilla for conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Lackas, Szeto, and Cruz-Bonilla...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - The United States Attorney’s Office will join law enforcement and community leaders on Tuesday, Aug. 1, in Bridgeport, Clarksburg, Martinsburg, and Wheeling as part of the annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention event, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen.
