News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Wallingford, Ky. woman was indicted today for engaging in crop insurance fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced several Department of Justice actions to reduce the rising tide of violent crime in America. Foremost of those actions is the reinvigoration of “Project Safe Neighborhoods," a program that has been historically successful in bringing together all levels of law enforcement to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former accounting specialist in the Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, office of an insurance broker was arrested today and charged with allegedly defrauding her employer of approximately $900,000, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen today announced an indictment charging Peter Goodchild, 54, of Philadelphia, PA, former bookkeeper for QwikSource LLC of Florham Park, NJ, with embezzling almost $1.6 million from QwikSource from at least 2005 through 2015. Goodchild is also charged with money laundering, aggravated identity theft, and filing false income tax returns during this period.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - State Representative Micky Ray Hammon, 60 years old, of Decatur, Alabama, pleaded guilty on Monday, Sept. 25, 2017 to devising a scheme to commit mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Hammon has represented the Fourth District in the Alabama House of Representatives since 2003. Until earlier this year, Hammon served as the House of Representative’s majority leader.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: A 69-year-old resident of Camano Island, Washington, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to nine years in prison and 15 years of supervised release for receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. JOSEPH VERNON GRUBBS pleaded guilty in June 2017, admitting...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced several Department of Justice actions to reduce the rising tide of violent crime in America. Foremost of those actions is the reinvigoration of “Project Safe Neighborhoods," a program that has been historically successful in bringing together all levels of law enforcement to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A North Brunswick, New Jersey, man who transmitted an image of child sexual abuse to an undercover agent was arrested today and charged with distributing child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: The Capitol Reef National Park visitor center operating hours will be 8:00 am to 4:30 pm daily starting Monday, Oct. 23, 2017. Extended hours will resume in summer 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: A New York businessman was arrested today for overseeing a scheme to forge hundreds of thousands of counterfeit documents containing improperly obtained personal information, which he allegedly sold to his clients, who then allegedly provided this information to telemarketers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced several Department of Justice actions to reduce the rising tide of violent crime in America. Foremost of those actions is the reinvigoration of “Project Safe Neighborhoods," a program that has been historically successful in bringing together all levels of law enforcement to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that 11 defendants were indicted for a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy in the Winn Parish area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a reinvigoration of Project Safe Neighborhoods Thursday morning, a program that has been historically successful in bringing together all levels of law enforcement to reduce violent crime and make neighborhoods safer for everyone. John W. Huber...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Canadian man was sentenced today to 168 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to traffic 100 kilograms of cocaine from Chicago to New Jersey and then on to Canada, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: MONROE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a West Monroe man was sentenced Wednesday to 151 months in prison for receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Bridgewater man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to heroin trafficking charges.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev.- The Bureau of Land Management today announced it will hold a meeting of the Sierra Front-Northwestern Great Basin Resource Advisory Council, demonstrating that partnerships and inclusion are vital to managing sustainable, working public lands. The public is welcome to attend the meeting which will occur on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017 at the Winnemucca District Office, 5100 East Winnemucca Blvd. from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Longmeadow man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Springfield to concealing from the Internal Revenue Service an Irish bank account he held with a balance of over $2 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Drug dog used by law enforcement to recover over a kilo of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Alsher Williams 39, of Jackson, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 24 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to defraud the United States by aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Jerome McDuffie. Williams was also ordered to pay $128,112.22 in restitution.
