News from January 2018
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that Don Bauermeister, 44, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha. Bauermeister was an Assistant City Attorney in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He entered a plea of guilty to conspiracy to distribute at least 13 pounds but less than 20 pounds of marijuana. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp, Chief United States District Court Judge, sentenced Bauermeister to five years of probation and a $5,000.00 fine.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) joined Representatives Ann Kuster (D-NH) and Michael Turner (R-OH) to introduce legislation to improve sexual violence data collection at key federal agencies. The legislation will implement recommendations from a Government Accountability Office report that found vast differences in data collection efforts-including the use of 23 different terms to describe sexual violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former member of the Planning Commission for the City of Westminster was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for taking a $15,000 bribe to help a person obtain a liquor license.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Perjury was sentenced on Jan. 24, 2018, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Richard Steven Johnson, 41, of Rio Linda, California, and Jarred Alexander Goldman, 32, of Palm Beach Gardens, were arrested today, after being charged with conspiring to steal and stealing a 17th century gold bar on or about Aug. 18, 2010, from the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum in Key West.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - Two Rhode Island businessmen responsible for running a butane honey oil (BHO) lab inside a Providence warehouse where a massive fire erupted in March 2015, destroying the warehouse and causing more than $1 million dollars in damages, were sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., to two years probation with community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced Diosme Fernandez Hano (44, Hialeah) to 10 years and 1 month in federal prison and Reinaldo Arrastia-Cardoso (48, Hialeah) to 10 years in federal prison for armed robbery and conspiracy to commit armed robbery. A federal jury found Hano and Arrastia-Cardosowere guilty on Oct. 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Eight individuals who allegedly engaged in various deceptive trading practices on commodities markets in the United States have been publicly charged with federal crimes. Seven of the eight individuals were charged with the crime of spoofing, an illegal trading practice that can be used to manipulate...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a Kenai man was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for possessing images of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that Alexis Vlachos, 40, of Montreal, Quebec, pled guilty to two counts relating to the smuggling of over 100 handguns from Vermont to Quebec. Specifically, Vlachos pled guilty before United States District Judge William K. Sessions III to conspiring to export, and actually exporting, firearms from the United States to Canada, without a license, in violation of the Arms Control Export Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Matthew Moon Named Special Agent in Charge of the Administrative Division for the Los Angeles Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A political consultant from Essex County, New Jersey, today admitted her role in a fraud scheme related to contracts with the Newark Watershed Development Corp. (NWCDC) and kickbacks to officials there, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Perjury was sentenced on Jan. 24, 2018, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man is charged with carrying out a scheme to use bogus information and simultaneous loan applications at multiple banks to fraudulently obtain home equity lines of credit, a practice known as “shotgunning," U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, Senior U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced Mark Antonio Pazmino, a 30-year-old former U.S. Army member assigned to Joint Base San Antonio-National Security Agency (JBSA-NSA), to 121 months in federal prison followed by 20 years of supervised release for attempting to have sex with a minor announced United States Attorney John F. Bash.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Antonio Crawley, age 40, was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in federal court in Anderson. The Court also imposed a money judgment against Crawley in the amount of approximately $231,000.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: NORMAN, OK - The Bureau of Land Management will hold a wild horse and burro sale event in Halletsville, Texas, on Feb. 9-10. The two-day event at the Wilbur Baber Memorial Complex (Lavaca Expo Center) will feature 50 wild horses and burros. The event will take place from noon - 6 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 9, and 8 a.m. - noon on Saturday, Feb. 10. Animals will be eligible for direct purchase to a good home. Inquire with BLM staff onsite for more information.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: For Conspiracy To Distribute Cocaine. FORT WAYNE - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Enrique Cordova Campos, age 42, of Elkhart, Indiana was sentenced before Chief Judge Theresa Springmann on his guilty plea to conspiracy to possess and...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2018
News Release: Get up and get moving in 2018! Join in the fun and participate in Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area’s new all-inclusive GO BIG 2018 Challenge. This year-long self-paced challenge was designed to encourage ALL visitors to explore and experience Big South Fork while maintaining a healthy lifestyle, reducing stress, and being physically active.
