News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - Karl James Stehlin, aka Carl Davis, was sentenced to ten years in prison and ordered to pay $2,158,250.04 in restitution for leading a scheme to defraud multiple companies out of more than $9,500,000, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down yesterday by the Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that on Sept. 14, 2018, four Guatemalan citizens-Carlos Jose Cordova-Sanabria, Lester Ariel Morales-Moran, Elmer Estuardo Juarez-Franco, and Daniel Garcia-Cruz-were arrested and charged in connection with an alien smuggling...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal jury has returned guilty verdicts against a New York man who was a high-level promoter of a fraudulent company that solicited more than $200 million for a company that purported to market web-based children’s educational courses, but in reality was nothing more than a pyramid scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on Sept. 14, 2018, Alberto Giovanni Zamora, 34, of Oxnard, California, was sentenced to 10 years (120 months) in prison for possession with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of a mixture or substance containing heroin. Following the prison term, Zamora will serve five years on supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Flat Rock, NC -Due to Hurricane Florence, Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site will be closed to the public beginning at 4pm Friday, Sept. 14, 2018. Entrance gates will be locked at that time. Park managers will monitor conditions and the park will re-open when it is safe to do so.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An El Salvadoran man with no fixed address, who has resided off and on in the United States for over 20 years, was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison for illegally re-entering the United States after deportation and subsequent to a felony conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Derrick John Fincher, age 48, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced today after being found guilty by a jury of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud. Chief United States District Judge Thomas O. Rice...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - North Rim operations will begin seasonal changes on the morning of Oct. 16, 2018. The North Rim transitions to reduced services with the Visitor Center, gift shop, campground and entrance station remaining open for visitor use. The Grand Canyon Lodge, food services, Canyon Trail Rides and park ranger programming will no longer be available. These operations will resume on May 15, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District, Stillwater Field Office, will be preparing an environmental assessment (EA) to analyze the direct, indirect and cumulative effects from issuing a new term livestock grazing permit for the Pilot Table Mountain Allotment (PTMA), located...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, SD - United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Dakota, together with Avera Health, hosted a conference on “Addiction and Suicide: Communities in Crisis" on September 6, 2018 at the Sioux Falls Convention Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Damanpreet Singh, 33, of Los Angeles, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to two years in prison for conspiring to commit bribery, identity fraud and unauthorized access of a computer, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An East Bridgewater man was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with producing child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, NJ - A 56-year-old Guatemalan fugitive, wanted in his home country for homicide, was removed from the U.S. Thursday by deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A high-level member of a global drug ring is in custody in Southern California after being extradited from Colombia last night on charges that he conspired to transport cocaine worth hundreds of millions of dollars from South America to Mexico for eventual sale in the United States. The extradition resulted from a coordinated, international law enforcement operation that has led to arrests of co-conspirators on three continents.
By State Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, U.S. Representatives Norma J. Torres (D-CA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) encouraged President J. Trump to expand the Protection Transfer Agreement (PTA). Through coordination with the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, the International Organization on...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: A Latvian man was sentenced today in Minneapolis for participating in a lucrative “scareware" hacking scheme that targeted visitors to the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s website. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Erica H. MacDonald of the District of Minnesota and Special Agent in Charge Jill Sanborn of the FBI’s Minneapolis Field Office made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A suspended Massachusetts State Police Trooper pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with being paid over $5,900 for overtime hours that he did not work.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton woman was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for the armed kidnapping of a Quincy man and two children.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced that a federal grand jury in Wisconsin returned an indictment charging Chadwick Grubbs, 33, with obstruction and attempted obstruction of the free exercise of religious beliefs, by mailing threats on three separate dates in May to the Harry and Rose...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - A federal jury has found Jurden Rogers (29, Sanford) guilty of bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during the bank robbery. Rogers faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is set for Nov. 29, 2018.
