News from October 2017
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management announced today that the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture have made selections for the three open positions on its nine-member National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. Mr. Fred T. Woehl, Jr. of Harrison, Arkansas, has been reappointed for the category...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Jose Apolinar Arreola Avalos, aka “J. Apolinar Arreola Avalos, 43, a citizen of Mexico and in the United States illegally, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have announced the opportunity to apply for grant funding for projects that would improve conditions for federal Endangered Species Act-listed species and their habitats impacted by the Central Valley Project. The CVP, owned and operated by Reclamation, is one of the world’s largest water storage and conveyance systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury has found David Paul Lynch (56, Venice) guilty of eight counts of producing and attempting to produce child pornography, two counts of traveling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, one count of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced Monday that Keith B. Noden, 45, of La Vista, Nebraska, was sentenced in federal court for possessing child pornography. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp, Chief Judge, sentenced Noden to four years of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal prison system. After his release from prison, Noden will begin a five-year term of supervised release and be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU, HI-FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Paul D. Delacourt announced the arrest of Gordon Shiraishi and Minh Hung Nguyen. Gordon Shiraishi, age 61, a retired Major from the Honolulu Police Department, was formerly assigned as the supervisor of HPD’s Criminal Intelligence Unit. Minh Hung Nguyen...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jon Paul Dotson, 29, of Madison was sentenced on Friday, Oct. 13, by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to seven months in federal prison for distributing crack cocaine in Madison on Nov. 16, 2016. This prison term will be followed by three years of supervised release. Dotson pleaded guilty to this charge on August 4, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, United States District Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Wayne Eugene Price, 36, to 12 months and one day in prison following his plea of guilty to theft of mail. Judge Aiken ordered Price to serve his federal prison sentence consecutive to the sentence he is serving currently for an unrelated identity theft conviction in Multnomah County Circuit Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Oct. 13, 2017, United States District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Leonard Chase a/k/a “Nard", age 23, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 25 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise including, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Paul D. Delacourt Named Assistant Director in Charge of the Los Angeles Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Initial phase increases public’s opportunity to comment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Dana J. Boente, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: “On Sept. 17, 2016, Ahmad Khan Rahimi attacked our country and our way of life. Inspired by ISIS and al Qaeda, Rahimi planted and detonated bombs on the streets of Chelsea, in the heart of Manhattan, and in New Jersey, hoping to kill and maim as many innocent people as possible. Rahimi’s crimes of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: More than 20 additional defendants have been charged in connection with parallel no-fault insurance fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio, 61-year-old James Matthew Bradley, Jr., pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with an undocumented alien smuggling operation that resulted in ten deaths announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jamar Thomas, 30, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to encourage or induce an alien for private or commercial gain to reside in the United States in violation of law, was sentenced to one year in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Defendant Received and Possessed Approximately 25 Videos and 350 Still Images of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Francisco Reynier Arias, Jr., 49, of Winter Park, Florida and formerly of Nashville, was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for operating an investment fraud scheme, which defrauded investors of over $6.5 million dollars, announced U.S. Attorney Donald Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A one-time sales representative for AFLAC was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison after being convicted of federal fraud charges related to a scheme that used bogus disability claims to bilk the insurance company out of more than $4 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury has found David Paul Lynch (56, Venice) guilty of eight counts of producing and attempting to produce child pornography, two counts of traveling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, one count of...
