News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: Defendants part of federal document and benefit fraud sweep.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: Defendant Threatened to Shoot Metrobus Passengers.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: Skagway - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park has reopened the Chilkoot Trail to all use after flooding conditions along the Taiya River had caused a closure earlier this week. Contact the Trail Center in Skagway (907-983-9234) for the latest trail conditions and information.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - Mark Brookbank, 54, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 262 months in prison for attempting to create child pornography through the photographs of a five year old.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: Yuma, Ariz. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Yuma Area Office announced today that beginning in Fall 2018, construction contractors performing work on behalf of the agency will temporarily detour traffic on portions of Laguna Dam Road immediately downstream of the Imperial Dam to accommodate the removal and replacement of two bridge decks.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL -U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced David Owen (40, Largo) to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for conspiring to commit extortion, money laundering, and mail fraud, in connection with several consumer fraud schemes. As part of his sentence, the Court also ordered restitution to the victims in the amount of $697,500, and entered a money judgment in the amount of $1,185,652, representing the proceeds of the fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On August 8, 2018, a federal grand jury in Tucson returned an eleven-count indictment against Mohamed Abdirahman Osman, 28, and Zeinab Abdirahman Mohamed, 25, both living in Tucson, Ariz., for violations of false swearing in an immigration matter and false statements to a government agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeking the Public’s Assistance in Locating Fugitive O.B. Hildson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today that Trinity Medical Pharmacy, LLC, (TMP) and several of its principals have agreed to pay the United States $2,244,270.14 to resolve allegations that TMP violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing TRICARE and other government programs for claims generated by illegal kickbacks and by knowingly omitting material information from TMP’s application to become a certified Express Scripts provider.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: TALKEETNA, Alaska - After dealing with heavy cloud cover most of the week, rangers with the National Park Service today were able to investigate the wreckage of a flightseeing plane that crashed in Denali National Park and Preserve on Aug. 4 with five people onboard.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former resident of Durant, Mississippi pleaded guilty today to preparing and filing a fraudulent claim for a tax refund with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney D. Michael Hurst, Jr. of the Southern District of Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Rodolfo Quiles (33, Tampa), Melissa Vasquez (28, Tampa), Alejandro Ortiz-Mendez, a/k/a “Andrew," (43, Tampa), Gil William Garcia-Libran, a/k/a “Giwi," (48, San Diego, CA), Stephen Johnson (25, San Diego...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - The seven men involved in the July 2017 armed robbery of First Community Credit Union in Katy have been ordered to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. A jury deliberated for approximately two hours following a four-day trial before convicting Walter Freeman Jordan aka “Wacko," 31, and Johnathon Nico Wise, 27, both of Houston, on Jan. 25, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: e-mail us, Superintendent, 520-733-5101. Saguaro National Park Resumes Aerial Treatments. to Control Buffelgrass. Tucson, AZ - Possibly beginning as soon as Wednesday, Aug. 15, Saguaro National Park plans to begin this year’s aerial spraying treatments to control the spread of buffelgrass in the Rincon...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Fighting violent crime and combating the drug epidemic are two of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s top priorities. The Department is actively addressing violence against women and children in Indian country through partnerships with federal, tribal, state, and local law enforcement, investigating...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Adam Gallardo Arrendondo, 56, of Waxahachie, Texas, charging him with Illegal Remuneration for Health Care Referrals.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: Orlando, FL -U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced William Joseph McClenathan (30, Sanford) to 20 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. McClenathan pleaded guilty on May 16, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Roberto Alexander Herrera Carballo, age 27, and of a citizen of El Salvador, was sentenced today to time served (116 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - A federal jury has found Ramon Lopez-Alvarado (58), a citizen of Mexico, guilty of one count of illegal re-entry into the United States. Prior to trial, Lopez-Alvarado also pleaded guilty to one count of failure to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man who attempted to elude a DWI checkpoint while he was intoxicated was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
