News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Filipino woman and her family members were indicted by a federal grand jury today for conspiring to funnel in and out of the United States approximately $20 million in Philippine public funds obtained through a multi-year bribery and fraud scheme. Charged in the indictment for Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering, Domestic Money Laundering and International Money Laundering were.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: For Possession of Material Depicting Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that CHRISTIAN GERALD DESGROUX, age 58, of Raleigh, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Terrence W. Boyle to 6 months imprisonment followed by 1 year of supervised release. On June 26, 2018, DESGROUX pled guilty to pretending to be a United States Army Lieutenant General in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 912.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: Due to a lack of staffing, Bandy Creek pool will be closed August 11-12. Certified lifeguards are required to be on duty whenever the pool is open for visitor safety.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Shenandoah National Park will celebrate our connection to the universe during the third annual Night Sky Festival August 10-12, 2018. Park rangers, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Solar System Ambassadors, amateur astronomers and a veteran NASA astronaut will be...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Two former San Juan police officers have been ordered to federal prison for lying to federal agents, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Following two jury trials in December 2017 and May 2018, Salvador Hernandez, 30, of Mission, and Richard Leon Castillo, 27, of Pharr, were convicted of making materially false statements to agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) who were conducting an investigation into missing bundles of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Kyle Lopez (46, Morgantown, West Virginia) to 36 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for failure to register as a sex offender as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). Lopez had pleaded guilty on June 11, 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement in response to the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) independent review showing Treasury’s projection that 21 percent of taxpayers will owe more in taxes in 2019 due to underwithholding...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Stephanie Contreraz, 27, Abraham Valdez, 53, both of Frisco, Texas, were sentenced last week before U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey,-to 46 months and 60 months, respectively, in federal prison. Co-defendant Elizabeth Flint, 27, of San Antonio, Texas, was sentenced yesterday before U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Brandon D. Martin, 29, of Winchester, has been sentenced to 110 months in federal prison, by Senior United States District Joseph M. Hood, for possessing stolen firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ-On Friday, July 27, 2018, Aaron Vasquez, 23, was arrested and charged in connection with a May 28, 2017 armed robbery of a fast food restaurant on 2972 North Alma School Road, Chandler, Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Leavenworth, Kan., man was sentenced in federal court today for sexually abusing a 14-year-old victim and recording the abuse on his cell phone.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: NOAA-supported scientists have determined that this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone "- an area of low oxygen that can kill fish and marine life - is approximately 2,720 square miles (7,040 square kilometers), an area about the size of Delaware. This summer’s dead zone size is the fourth smallest area mapped since 1985 and is smaller than the 5,780 square miles forecast by NOAA in June.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Dustin Ray Leonard, 28, of Lubbock, Texas, appeared yesterday in federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge D. Gordon Bryant, Jr., and pleaded guilty to enticement of a minor, announced Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: For Conspiracy to Distribute over 1 Kilogram of Heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Tony Lavea Tueipi, 42, resident of Anchorage, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to 21 months in prison, followed by a three-year term of supervised release, for illegally possessing a gun with an obliterated serial number. As a result of his conviction, Tueipi, who is a native of Western Samoa, will be subject to deportation.
By State Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: Dear Mr. President: I am encouraged by your tweet this morning regarding 3D-printed guns, and urge your Administration to act swiftly to keep Americans safe and protect our vital national interests abroad. As you know, the State Department recently reached an agreement with Defense Distributed that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Filipino woman and her family members were indicted by a federal grand jury today for conspiring to funnel in and out of the United States approximately $20 million in Philippine public funds obtained through a multi-year bribery and fraud scheme. Charged in the indictment for Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering, Domestic Money Laundering and International Money Laundering were.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Joshua Hansen, 35, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced on Monday in the U.S. District Court in Gainesville to 360 months in prison for production of child pornography, 240 months for possession of child pornography, and 120 months for possession of an unregistered silencer.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - EM recently launched long-planned systems to help safely handle the disposition of non-standard storage cylinders containing depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) at its Portsmouth and Paducah gaseous diffusion plant sites.
