News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Kernersville man who pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography was sentenced today, announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on Aug. 30, 2018, by Magistrate Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Breaux Bridge man pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing stolen mail from Lafayette and St. Martin parish addresses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: POCATELLO - Dillon McCandless, 28, of Blackfoot, was sentenced yesterday to 105 months in prison for the July 2017 robbery of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes’ Sage Hill Casino, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered that McCandless serve five years of...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: KEMMERER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Kemmerer Field Office invites the public to provide input on a proposal to initiate the leasing process for 5,095 acres of sodium in three federal lease tracts in southwest Sweetwater County, about 15 miles southwest of Green River, Wyo., in the BLM-managed Known Sodium Leasing Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man and his Arizona-based supplier have been sentenced in federal court in Boston for trafficking methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Today, Seth Willis Pickering, 38, of Leicester, N.C. was ordered to serve life in prison for killing his daughter, Lila Pickering, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. presided over the sentencing hearing.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national residing in Lawrence appeared in federal court in Boston today for distributing a mixture of fentanyl and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: New Jersey Man Indicted for Promoting Tax Fraud Scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations regarding the new 20 percent pass-through business deduction made law as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Newark police officer was charged today with allegedly soliciting and accepting cash payments from brothel owners in exchange for protecting the brothels from police action and other matters, and for failing to report those cash payments on his personal federal income tax returns, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced JOHN ANDREW PIPKIN a/k/a “Puppy", age 59 of Erwin, North Carolina, to 130 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Arkansas State Senator Jeremy Hutchinson Indicted on Wire and Tax Fraud Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, Jacqueline Scroggins, 53, of Avondale, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 37 months’ imprisonment, followed by 100 hours of community service. Scroggins had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy and mail fraud. Co-defendants Amethyst Nicole Henderson...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: With Dove Season Opening Soon, Prosecutions Should Serve as a Reminder to Obey All Laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Two Indicted for Making Corporate Contributions to U.S. Senate Campaign.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Karen Posey with wire fraud, bank fraud, identity theft, and credit card fraud charges, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The FBI has arrested five residents of a compound in Amalia, in Taos County, N.M. (Amalia Compound), on a federal criminal complaint charging them with violating the federal firearms and conspiracy laws. The arrests were announced by U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson and Special Agent in Charge James C. Langenberg of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: (ERIE, Pa,) - United States Attorney Scott w. Brady announced today that Hallman Chevrolet of Erie, Pennsylvania entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement, and agreed to pay a monetary penalty of $1,400,000.00 and more than $737,000.00 in restitution to various lending institutions.
