News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: One Man Died, Another Was Wounded in Northwest Washington Attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Florida Airplane Broker Convicted of Tax and Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A Laredo man has been sentenced to federal prison after being a fugitive from justice for more than 10 years, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Maurice Lewis (22, Tampa) to 5 years and 1 month in federal prison for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft. He pleaded guilty to the charges on July 10, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Wayne J. Jones, II, 38, from Waterloo, Iowa, has pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon and unlawful drug user. Jones entered his plea of guilty yesterday in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - Mining operations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) are expected to resume this fall for the first time in more than three years, helping EM fulfill its mission of emplacing transuranic waste from generator sites around the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Jury deliberated 45 minutes before returning guilty verdict.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Six men have been indicted by a grand jury today on illegal re-entry charges, United States Attorney William J. Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Eight men are in federal custody on sex trafficking of children charges outlined in a federal criminal complaint filed last week, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Virginia Beach man pleaded guilty today to money laundering in connection with a fraud scheme that resulted in a loss of at least $3.9 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers, along with US Attorney Billy J. Williams, District of Oregon, announced on Oct. 17, 2017, that Jian Zhang, 38, of China, was charged by an Indictment returned on September, 21, 2017, of the following offenses: (1) Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York man was sentenced today to 43 months in prison for robbing a bank in Fort Lee, New Jersey, in January 2017, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Marcurio Carlisle Tsosie, 34, of Chinle, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 18.5 years’ imprisonment, to be followed by lifetime supervised release with sex offender conditions. Tsosie had previously pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Steven Zoernack (55, Sarasota) to 5 years in federal prison for conspiring to commit wire fraud. He was also ordered to forfeit $2,890,518.54 in ill-gotten gains and to make restitution to victims in the amount of $3,435,194.56. Zoernack pleaded guilty on March 31, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Central Coast Field Office has reopened the Panoche and Tumey Hills recreation areas to vehicle access as of Saturday, Oct. 14.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: WTP on pace to deliver first major processing facility in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Loretto, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of a prohibited object in prison, and was sentenced to nine months in prison, consecutive to the current sentence he is presently serving in federal prison, and three years’ supervised release, concurrent with his present sentence, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - Five federal inmates pleaded guilty today to possessing weapons at the Federal Correctional Institution at McDowell, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. As part of separate prosecutions, Scott Finnell, 29, Misael Santana-Rivera, 32, Antonio R. Azpeitia, 40, Ernest Shields, 42, and Diego Ninos, 30, entered their guilty pleas to possession of a weapon by an inmate of the institution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Edward L. Donaldson Jr., 75, and John Jared Oertling, 42, both residents of Pearl River, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, pled guilty today to conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act for importing live white-tailed deer into Mississippi, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Luis Santiago of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Law Enforcement.
