News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that THOMAS CHARLES BARDRICK, age 20, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, pled guilty to INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF STOLEN PROPERTY, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2314 and 2, punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A new report released by House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) documents the strong influence of the oil and mining industries over the soon-to-be-completed Trump administration “review" of 27 national monuments around the country and sheds new light on the review’s unpopularity. The report - Fossil Apostles: Fossil Fuels, the GOP, and the Fate of Our National Monuments - is available at.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced today that on Aug. 21, 2017, Chief United States District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Louis Houghton, age 70, of Winnebago, Nebraska for his conviction for theft from an Indian gaming establishment. Houghton was sentenced to five years of probation and 150 hours of community service. He was further ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $36,500.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was indicted today by a federal grand jury on a charge of armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A 42-year-old illegal alien from Honduras, Elmer Franky Ortiz, who was living in Carrollton, Texas, pleaded guilty in April 2017 to one count of receipt of a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. He was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 204 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: Second E-Commerce Company and Its Top Executive Agree to Plead Guilty to Price-Fixing Conspiracy in Customized Promotional Products Industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Northern Cambria, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to three years’ probation, 225 hours of community service and a fine of $3,000, on his conviction of conversion of government funds, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Jamaica, NY, has been sentenced in federal court to 21 months imprisonment with credit for time served on any federal detainer, to be served consecutively to the sentence imposed by the Albany County Criminal Court at Case No. 16-21078; three years Supervised Release, and restitution in the amount of $28,106.27 on his conviction of conspiracy, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - After deliberating for less than an hour, a federal jury in Boston convicted the leader of a kidnapping crew whose organization was involved in violent abductions including burning victims with hot irons.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: A Toledo man was indicted for receipt and distribution of child pornography, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: Defendant Charged as the Result of a DEA-Led OCDETF Operation that Targeted a Cocaine Trafficking Organization in Southern New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the owner of a Taney County, Mo., restaurant pleaded guilty in federal court today to tax evasion after confessing his crimes to undercover federal agents who posed as buyers when his business was for sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama-Today, Tariq Khalil Jones, 35, of Tuskegee, Alabama, was sentenced to life in federal prison plus 282 years for committing numerous armed robberies and a carjacking, announced A. Clark Morris, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - After deliberating for less than an hour, a federal jury in Boston convicted the leader of a kidnapping crew whose organization was involved in violent abductions including burning victims with hot irons.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management requests public input on a proposed increase to amenity fees at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg woman caught with heroin and methamphetamine in January 2017 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Megan Kerns, 29, entered her guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute heroin and methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Medford, New Jersey, pharmacist was convicted today for his role in illegally distributing and dispensing oxycodone from two pharmacies located in Medford, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Medford, New Jersey, pharmacist was convicted today for his role in illegally distributing and dispensing oxycodone from two pharmacies located in Medford, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Logan County man who possessed a sawed-off shotgun in October 2016 pleaded guilty today to a federal gun charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Brian Kevin Sigmon, II, 34, of Henlawson, entered his guilty plea to possession of an unregistered firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH -United States Attorney John Stuart Bruce announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced KEVIN KHAALIQ BEAMON, 28, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, to 71 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release for Possession of a Firearm as a Convicted Felon and 19 months imprisonment for violating the terms of his federal supervised release, which will run consecutively.
