News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Briana Fugate, 27, of Cheektowaga, N.Y., who was convicted of bribery, distribution of marijuana, and delay of mail, was sentenced to 12 months by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on Aug. 21, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Cybercriminal’s “Codeshop" Website Sold Troves of Stolen Credit Card Data.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: FBI and Columbus Police Department Continue Efforts to Identify and Locate Columbus, Georgia Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Jeffrey Keagle, 49 of, Folcroft, PA was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in federal prison for his conviction for distribution, receipt, and possession of a collection of more than 75,000 images and videos of children being sexually assaulted and abused, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ANTWON SEYMORE, age 19, pled guilty yesterday to theft of firearms from a premises owned by a federally-licensed firearms dealer and aiding-and-abetting.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Gulfport, Mississippi. - Kristopher Michael Brumfield, 39, of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, was sentenced on Aug. 24, 2017, by Chief U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to 120 months in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for accessing with intent to view child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Raymond R. Parmer, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RUFUS JOHNSON, age 68, of New Orleans, was sentenced today. JOHNSON and his secretary, JOSEPHINE SPELLMAN, 57, also of New Orleans, pled guilty in the midst of trial for their roles in operating a long-running and extensive bribery and honest services fraud scheme related to JOHNSON’s bail bonds in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Boasso America, Inc. (Boasso), headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, and with a facility in Garden City, Georgia, entered a guilty plea yesterday before Senior U. S. District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. for the illegal transportation and dumping of hazardous waste. Boasso pled...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Cerpa-Coy Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Hundreds of fentanyl pills packaged to look like oxycodone pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A Fresno bookkeeper and her associate were arrested today for their roles in embezzling over $1 million from a Fresno business, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - An indictment was unsealed Wednesday charging CHARLES DANIEL LYNN, 34, of El Reno, Oklahoma; ARMANDO TABARES, 30, of Mission, Texas; and JOSE TOMAS CASTILLO-GARZA, 39, currently an inmate in United States Bureau of Prisons custody, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bribery, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that AARON J. JOHNSON, 37, of Haddam, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding clients of his investment business.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - Frank Marion Stout, Jr., who worked as a custodian at Warsaw High School, is scheduled to appear in federal court on Sept. 5, for arraignment on child sexual exploitation and child pornography charges. This week, a grand jury returned its indictment against Stout, 45, of Elvaston...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Rock Springs Field Office recently teamed up with the Conservation Outdoor Recreation Education group to improve the Sweetwater Guard Station Campground, located roughly 45 miles northeast of Farson, in the Wind River Mountain Range. Community partnerships like the CORE collaboration are an essential component of the BLM’s mission to practice shared conservation stewardship on BLM administered lands.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Culminating a two-decade-long effort, FAA Administrator Michael P. Huerta today joined local and state officials in dedicating the new, 8,600-foot runway at Taos Regional Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Summersville, Mo., bank officer was sentenced in federal court today for a $151,000 fraud scheme in which he took out loans for himself by stealing the identity information of bank customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KEITH FOSTER, age 37, and THOMAS MAROLD, age 53, both of New Orleans, were sentenced yesterday. Both defendants had previously pled guilty to conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute heroin, conspiracy to use a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: The prolonged drought in California had at least one silver lining for researchers studying wildlife in the Santa Monica Mountains. Native western toads were found to be breeding in September, the latest ever known observation for the species, which has a breeding season that typically begins in late...
