News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City, New Jersey, police officer today admitted defrauding Jersey City by obtaining compensation for off-duty work that he did not perform, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that CAROL LYNN BEEN, age 59, of Henryetta, Oklahoma, pled guilty to CREDIT UNION THEFT, EMBEZZLEMENT AND MISAPPLICATION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 657, punishable by not more than 30 years imprisonment, and up to a $1,000,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: OMAHA, NE-The Omaha Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with assistance from the Omaha Police Department (OPD) Uniform Patrol and the FBI Greater Omaha Bank Robbery Task Force, apprehended a convicted violent felon for illegal possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: The entire SR 410 corridor is now open after being closed due to fire activity outside the northeast boundary of the park. Associated trails are also open to normal use with the exception of the Pacific Crest Trail north of Chinook Pass. All evacuation orders affecting Mount Rainier National Park have been rescinded. Fire crews are completing operations along the highway outside of the park. Please drive cautiously as they will be monitoring areas along the SR 410 corridor.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - United States District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Olusola Olla, age 50, of Browns Summit, North Carolina, to four years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit money laundering and structuring arising from a scheme to defraud elderly...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: Harkers Island, NC - Today, National Park Service (NPS) Southeast Regional Director Stan Austin announced the selection of Jeff West as superintendent of North Carolina’s Cape Lookout National Seashore, effective November 12. West has served as the park’s acting superintendent since May.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: FBI Searches for Missing 16-Year-Old. The FBI is asking for the public’s help locating 16-year-old Magdalen Pixler. Magdalen went missing from her Hagerstown, Maryland, home on August 8, 2017. Investigation has led agents to believe that there is a possibility that Magdalen may be in the Portland-metro...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: Scott Wayne Turner, 49, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment with one count of bank robbery, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: Medford, Ore. - On Sept. 30, the Bureau of Land Management will host a National Public Lands Day Rogue River clean up! Volunteers are needed from McGregor Park to Nugget Falls on the Rogue River. The event will take place between9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: "Significance of Integrated Pest Management to Sustainable Horticultural Production-Observations and Experiences" is the title of entomologist Frank G. Zalom's 2017 ARS Benjamin Y. Morrison Memorial Lecture, which he delivered today at the American Society for Horticultural Science annual conference in Waikoloa, Hawaii.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Sept. 21, 2017, Justin Redmon, 33, of Harriman, Tennessee, was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison by the Honorable Pamela L. Reeves, U.S. District Court Judge, for his role in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy. Upon his release from prison, he will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Isaiah L. McLaurin, 28, of Elmira, NY, who was convicted of witness tampering, was sentenced to 57 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Riverside woman who was the controller at a Fontana-based metal forging company pleaded guilty this morning to federal charges stemming from her embezzlement of $1.5 million from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RICKEY ROBERSON, age 49, of New Orleans, pled guilty yesterday to one count of theft of federal grant funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
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By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: Kelli Hogue Mauro, 48, of Birmingham, Alabama, and former Executive Director of the Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program, was sentenced yesterday to five years of probation and five months of home confinement for misapplication of property worth at least $5,000 from a federal program, announced U.S. Attorney Donald Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: David Foster, 52, of Horsham, PA was charged today by Information with one count of tax evasion and one count of failing to pay federal taxes, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal indictment unsealed this week charges nine alleged members of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang with participating in a criminal organization that murdered six people and violently protected drug-dealing territories on the West and Southwest Sides of Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 58-year-old Theodore Edward DeAubrey was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison for distribution of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Noel Carter, 44, of Bakersfield, was arrested today for conspiring with Bakersfield Police Department officers Damacio Diaz and Patrick Mara to distribute methamphetamine and marijuana that Diaz and Mara seized in the course of their duties as police officers, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
