News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Wilfredo Reyes, 60, of Portland, was sentenced today to three years’ probation including eight months of home detention for falsely reporting a suspicious package on a TriMet MAX train.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: ST. AUGUSTINE, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited G&H Underground Construction for allowing the use of unguarded machines after an employee suffered a serious injury at a worksite in St. Augustine. The company faces $57,738 in proposed penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita pharmacist was indicted today on charges of unlawfully dispensing prescription opioids, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A South Carolina resident has been sentenced in federal court to 30 months imprisonment followed by three years supervised release on his conviction of interstate stalking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - A former DEA Supervisory Special Agent who was assigned to the Nogales Office as part of the DEA Tucson District Office pleaded guilty today in federal court in Tucson, Arizona, to illegally selling firearms without a Federal Firearms License (FFL). The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada because the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona is recused from the case.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: MOOSE, WY-Grand Teton National Park managers are learning from research and field staff observations to improve visitor use management and provide high quality visitor experiences in the popular String and Leigh lakes area. Social scientists from Oregon State, Penn State, and Utah State universities are nearing completion of a two-year study to better understand visitor use, experience, and behaviors in this scenic area as well as the related resource impacts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for making a bomb threat at the Veterans Affairs Clinic in Mount Vernon, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Lafayette man was sentenced Monday to 151 months in prison for conspiring to distribute multiple quantities of narcotics and illegal possessing a 9 mm handgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Peter Albert Rodriguez, 28, of Nampa, was sentenced yesterday to 70 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. U.S. District Court Judge David C. Nye ordered that upon completion of that sentence, Rodriguez serve an additional three years of supervised release. A federal grand jury indicted Rodriguez on Dec. 12, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Benigno Godinez-Cortez, 45, of Ahuacuotzingo, Guerrero, Mexico, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to unlawfully re-entering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: A Burien, Washington felon was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to seven years in prison and five years of supervised release for three drug and firearm related crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. JERMAINE HICKLES, 46, pleaded guilty in May 2018 to being a felon in possession ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Greenville, South Carolina, returned Indictments against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Ariel Mendoza, 26, Angel Forteza-Concepcion, 18, and Katyushkanair Baez Vega, 18, all of Manchester, have been charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud, announced United States Attorney Scott W. Murray.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: Steven P. Gibson, 29, pharmacist and owner of Gibson’s Discount Drugs in Red Bud, Illinois, pled guilty in federal court today to charges that he engaged in a scheme to defraud health care benefit programs by submitting false claims for fraudulent prescription medications to Medicare, Medicaid, and private...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: The former National Director of Anti-Corruption in Colombia and a foreign attorney pled guilty today in federal court in Miami for their participation in a conspiracy to launder money with the intent to promote foreign bribery.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: Skagway - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park has closed the U.S. side of the Chilkoot Trail to all use due to flooding conditions along the Taiya River. Park officials will continue to assess conditions to determine when the trail can be reopened. Contact the Trail Center in Skagway (907-983-9234) for the latest trail conditions and closure information.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Greenville, South Carolina, returned Indictments against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Jesus Rodriguez-Jimenez, 47, of Monterrey, Mexico, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison by United States District Judge Katherine B. Forrest in Manhattan federal court. Rodriguez-Jimenez...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: Defendant Arrested in Apartment filled with Stolen Liquor, nearly 2 Pounds of Meth and Nine Stolen Firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Victor Yobany Archila-Rojas, 28, of Guatemala, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to entering the United States after having been removed and deported.Court records reveal that on July 29, 2018, the defendant entered the United...
