News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A promoter who bilked investors, promoters and performers who invested in concerts and World Wrestling Entertainment events - stealing at least $1.7 million from the victims - was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney, Richard W. Moore, announces that Alan Eric Grime, a 27 year old resident of Loxley, Alabama was sentenced to 30 months of incarceration followed by three years of supervised release for possession of a.45 caliber pistol after being convicted of Theft of Property, 1st Degree, a felony, on June 6, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Yossi Rafael Rincon Ramirez, of the Dominican Republic, pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant RON MOLANO TAITANO, age 32, from Mangilao, was sentenced today to an 18 month term of imprisonment and a three year term of supervised release for possession of contraband in...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Last week, Ronald Amaguin Dallas, 28, of Glendale, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 120 months’ imprisonment. Dallas had previously pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Today in federal court, U.S. District Court Judge Michael H. Simon ordered Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc. to pay $750,000 in criminal fines for repeatedly discharging untreated wastewater from its lens-manufacturing facility in Clackamas, Oregon to the Kellogg Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: XENIA, OH ‒ The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Rural King Supply Inc., a national farm supply company, for failing to maintain forklifts properly at its Xenia facility. The company faces proposed penalties of $258,672.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: DETROIT - On Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. State and local law enforcement agencies and the Drug Enforcement Administration will give the public its 15th opportunity in 7 years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
Release: Moline, Ill. - TSA officers at the Quad City International Airport (MLI) discovered a firearm at the security checkpoint Sunday evening.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Norman Handy, a/k/a “Norm," a/k/a “Lil Norm," age 23, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 142 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise known as the Black Guerilla Family’s Greenmount Avenue Regime.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Walpole man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: Three Conspirators Sentenced in $16.6m Fraudulent Medical Device Scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: “Drones" (officially known as unmanned aircraft systems) have proven useful both for the military and the public. They can be relatively inexpensive gadgets with a variety of capabilities such as taking aerial photos and video, surveilling, and carrying objects. However, until now, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) could not evaluate and demonstrate drones in a timely manner because of the lack of a common testing site and high costs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - Wesley Allen Krohn pleaded guilty today to two counts of armed bank robbery, four counts of bank robbery, and one count of attempted bank robbery in federal court, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, Special Agent in Charge John Bennett of the FBI’s San Francisco Field Division, and Special Agent in Charge Sean Ragan of the FBI’s Sacramento Field Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today that two people were sentenced to prison for their involvement in the arson of an 8-unit apartment building in Milwaukee in December 2014. The fire resulted in injuries to multiple people, including tenants ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man caught with heroin in August 2017 was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Joseph Mitchell, 44, previously pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin. Stuart praised the efforts of the Marshall University Office of Public Safety and the FBI Huntington Safe Streets Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - An Atlanta man was sentenced today to 116 months in prison for recruiting individuals from local homeless shelters to cash counterfeit business checks worth nearly $105,000.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: A search is currently underway for a 76-year-old, white, male. His vehicle was found at the Quail Springs Day Use Area parking lot. Joshua Tree resident, David Sewell appears to have left the Quail Springs parking lot headed for an unspecified location in Johnny Lang Canyon. Rangers found his abandoned...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: Prescribed opiate pain medications outside the course of professional medical practice and without a legitimate medical purpose to multiple patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX- In the first quarter of 2018, federal and state prosecutors and their law enforcement partners combined resources to investigate and prosecute opioid cases throughout Arizona. The goal of this surge was to disrupt opioid trafficking throughout the state while promoting case coordination and...
