News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: Kristen Petersen Morrison, 44, pleaded guilty today to four counts of wire fraud, after being charged with defrauding customers of her former employer, Century II, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: KEENE, Calif. - Chances are that you have heard the name César Chávez. You may have driven on a road or past a school that bears his name. If you were alive during the 1960s and '70s, you may remember his work-maybe you even boycotted grapes five decades ago! But do you know much about Chávez? Have you ever met a member of the United Farm Workers? Do you know firsthand the challenges of the people who plant, tend, and harvest so much of this country’s food?
By State Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Jessica Scott, an employee of Covenant Aviation Security (CAS), a private company that contracts with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), was sentenced today to one year and a day in prison for her role in a conspiracy to defraud the federal government, announced United...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to robbing a bank in Kansas City, Kan., U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Patrick C. Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that Steven Thorpe, 44, of Jonesboro, will spend more than 21 years in federal prison for advertising child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Megan Eileen Dunigan, 29, of Mount Clare, West Virginia, was convicted today in federal court of possession and distribution of an illegal substance, Acting United States Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 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 June 26, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: A Rocky River man was charged with laundering more than $100,000 from investors and using at least some of it for personal expenses, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: A Boardman man was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for defrauding investors out of nearly $1.2 million and related tax violations, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja, Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI and Ryan L. Korner, Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Misprison of a Felony was sentenced on June 20, 2017, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: Kristen Petersen Morrison, 44, pleaded guilty today to four counts of wire fraud, after being charged with defrauding customers of her former employer, Century II, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two men were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a $7 million conspiracy to distribute marijuana in Pettis, Cooper, Boone, Morgan, Pulaski and Jackson counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, and Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to an Intimate Partner.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Threatened Officer with a Firearm during Traffic Stop on Laguna Pueblo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: For Being A Felon In Possession Of A Firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - A Guatemalan man illegally present in the United States who has been deported from the country three times, and subsequently re-entered the country illegally, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison on a felony charge of illegal re-entry of a removed alien. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) investigated the case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - Two Tyler, Texas men have pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - During today’s court hearing, which lasted approximately 25 minutes, U.S. Magistrate Judge Eric I. Long found that the government satisfied its burden to show that defendant, Brendt A. Christensen, presents both a danger to the community and the risk of non-appearance at future court proceedings. Judge Long therefore ordered that Christensen be detained pending trial in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
