News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Okreek, South Dakota, woman convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Aug. 21, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: As Hurricane Harvey impacts Texas, the Department of Energy (DOE) is closely monitoring energy infrastructure impacts and coordinating across the federal community, state and local governments, and with industry partners. DOE emergency responders are now staffing the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that STERLING PIPKINS, a/k/a “Shoe," age 32, of New Orleans, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to federal narcotics charges. PIPKINS had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael J. Adler, who is handling the case, stated that according to the indictment, between September 2014, and September 2016, the defendants conspired with others to possess and distribute cocaine. The defendants are also accused of renting a storage unit in Amherst, NY to store the cocaine.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: EMERY, SD - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited First Dakota Enterprises Inc., for failing to protect its workers from trench collapse hazards. The Fort Pierre-based company faces proposed penalties of $95,064.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that STERLING PIPKINS, a/k/a “Shoe," age 32, of New Orleans, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to federal narcotics charges. PIPKINS had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Former Miami-Dade Police Department Officer Michael Freshko, 48, was sentenced to four years in prison today, by U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles, after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to unlawfully export firearms from the United States to the Dominican Republic, on flights from Miami International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, and Child Abuse as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota, beginning on Aug. 22, 2017, and concluding on Aug. 23, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: DETROIT, Michigan - James Robert Liang, a Volkswagen engineer, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sean F. Cox of the Eastern District of Michigan to 40 months in federal prison for his role in a nearly 10-year conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and U.S. Volkswagen customers by implementing software specifically designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests in hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen “clean diesel" vehicles, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Palm Desert man who is accused of running a stock investment scheme that allegedly defrauded more than 90 victims out of more than $1 million has been arrested on federal fraud charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: DETROIT, Michigan - James Robert Liang, a Volkswagen engineer, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sean F. Cox of the Eastern District of Michigan to 40 months in federal prison for his role in a nearly 10-year conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and U.S. Volkswagen customers by implementing software specifically designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests in hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen “clean diesel" vehicles, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that Zachary Brooke Roberts and Martin Gasper Mazzara were sentenced to 20 months of prison and are required to pay $2.5 million in restitution to the Chippewa Cree Tribe. The shell company of Encore Services, LLC, was also convicted, and the court ordered it to pay the same amount of restitution. The sentencing occurred on Aug. 25, 2017, before U.S. District Judge Brian Morris, in Great Falls, Montana.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Stanley Davis, 50, of Philadelphia pleaded guilty today to one count of distribution of controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CORTEZ THOMPSON, age 34, of New Orleans, pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Clayton John Shinn, age 27, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary, Canaan, Waymart, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to assault on Aug. 24, 2017, before United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Omar Kabiljagic, 46, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to four years and three months in prison for filing fraudulent tax returns, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Steven Archuleta, 26, and his sister, Cheryl Shemayme-Archuleta, 33, both members and residents of Picuris Pueblo, N.M., were sentenced late yesterday afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., for their convictions on assault and firearms charges. Archuleta was sentenced to 111 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and Shemayme-Archuleta was sentenced to 60 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Mining claimants who wish to retain their mining claims on Bureau of Land Management federal public lands through the 2018 assessment year must pay a maintenance fee or file a maintenance fee waiver certificate on or before the Friday, Sept. 1, to prevent the mining claim from being declared forfeited and voided.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Defendant Shot Victim Multiple Times, Outside Restaurant.
