News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 54-year-old resident of Pasadena has entered a plea of guilty to wire fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Darla Kay Beede admitted she embezzled $1.8 million during her longtime employment with Chevron Phillips Chemical Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that federal grand juries in the Southern District of Mississippi and the District of North Dakota returned indictments, unsealed yesterday, against two Chinese nationals and their North American based traffickers and distributors for separate conspiracies...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Patrick Henry Stewart, age 53, of Centre Hall, Pennsylvania, was charged on Oct. 16, 2017, in a criminal information with making interstate wire transfers to defraud his former employer, Nittany Valley Paper Mills in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, of approximately $218,098.
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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Nicholas Kyle Driggers, 31, of Forney, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to a 151 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in June 2017 to one count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Reindustrialization efforts at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) have brought new life to an old barge access area out of service for decades.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: An investigation is underway regarding the recovery of a body identified as that of 42 year old Jeremy Mills of Fritch Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Claimed to be Working As A Security Guard For the Department of Defense When She Was Not.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has released for public review and comment an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Crater Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park. The Crater Trail starts near Milner Pass on Trail Ridge Road and extends above tree line to a geologic feature known as “the Crater." The trail...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: by U.S. ATTORNEY BENJAMIN C. GLASSMAN.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - EM and contractor Los Alamos National Security (LANS) have safely and successfully completed cleanup of the Los Alamos townsite.
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: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years imprisonment, followed by 20 years supervised release, on a charge of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of children, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Cory J. Riehart, age 32, of Omak, Washington, was sentenced in United States District Court after pleading guilty in July, 2017 to Adulterating a Drug and to Misbranding a Drug with the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Twelve people were charged in a 26-count indictment for their roles in a conspiracy to install credit-card skimmers on gas pumps in at least five states, including several locations in Northeast Ohio, and steal credit-card account information from thousands of people.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after the Administration announced that Representative Tom Marino (R-Pa.) has withdrawn his name from consideration to become the Trump Administration's Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Sisseton, South Dakota, man who was convicted of several counts of fraud was sentenced on Oct. 16, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Last week, Michael Alvarez Martinez, 48, of Tucson, Ariz., a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins to 41 months in prison. Martinez had previously pleaded guilty to one count of abusive sexual contact of a minor. The minor victim is also a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. Martinez will be placed on lifetime federal supervision and be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Jorge Ayala Magana, age 39, of Pasco, Washington, was sentenced to a 204-month term of imprisonment for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine, and for...
