News from August 2017
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 Homeland Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: EHRENBERG, Ariz. - An Arizona man is expected to make his initial appearance in state court Friday following his arrest by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for allegedly sexually exploiting at least one 13-year-old girl.
By State Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after the Trump administration announced financial sanctions on Venezuela.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that MICHAEL KEITH BEALL, age 61, of McAlester, Oklahoma, pled guilty to POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE METHAMPHETAMINE, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C), punishable by not more than 20 years imprisonment, and up to a $1,000,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: FBI and Marion County Sheriff's Office Search for Bank Robber.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Search Underway for Missing Swimmer in New River Gorge National River.
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: 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: PHILADELPHIA - Stanley Davis, 50, of Philadelphia pleaded guilty today to one count of distribution of controlled substances.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: JOHNSON CITY, TEXAS - Due to the pending weather forecast of severe weather in the region, Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park is cancelling all special events planned at the LBJ Ranch for Saturday, August 26 and Sunday, August 27. This will include Saturday night’s “Movie Under the Stars" screening of the HBO film All the Way, and all events related to the annual wreathlaying ceremony on August 27 commemorating President Johnson’s birthday.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Aug. 24, 2017, U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Tavon Holmes, age 29, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 10 years and 6 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
Release: PITTSBURGH - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a woman from bringing a loaded handgun on board a plane at a Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) checkpoint yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sherrell Davis, 43, of Benicia, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $210,320 in restitution for submitting false claims for tax refunds, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Davis was ordered to surrender to start serving her sentence on Oct. 20, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, G. F. “Pete" Peterman, III, announces that Carol Adcock, age 57, was sentenced to serve 15 months and Barbara McFerrin, age 55, was sentenced to serve 33 months in federal prison for wire fraud and tax evasion. The sentences were handed down by Chief United States District Court Judge Clay D. Land in Columbus, Georgia, on Aug. 22, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Jeffrey S. Sallet Named Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: 74 of 103 Federal Defendants Charged as the Result of ATF-Led Investigation Pursued in Support of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative have Pleaded Guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: The attached provides information about fires in Glacier National Park and surrounding areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Ft. 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: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that JIMMIE JOHN LIKOWSKI, age 48, of Hitchita, Oklahoma, pled guilty to FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM AND AMMUNITION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Howard Hoisington, age 34, formerly of Berlin, pleaded guilty today in the United States District Court in Burlington to arson and robbery charges stemming from the fatal arson that occurred in Northfield in December 2015.
