News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Urbano Vazquez, 47 of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today of committing four counts of child sexual abuse against to two children in his parish from 2015 to 2017, in Northwest Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Former Members of Tribal Leadership Admit to Lying to Federal Officials and Falsifying Document During Investigation.
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding a new report from the State Department Office of the Inspector General regarding improper treatment of career State Department employees in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - A Mexican man was extradited to the United States Wednesday to faces charges for his role in a transnational sex trafficking ring. This following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York with assistance from the HSI Mexico City Attaché office and the Mexican Federal Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - SCOTT BREAUX (“BREAUX"), age 39, of Marrero, Louisiana, was sentenced on Aug. 14, 2019 by U.S. District Court Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle to 60 months probation and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $ 35,000.00 to ASI Federal Credit Union and its insurer, Cuna Mutual Group, announced United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A Busby man who admitting having sex with a minor on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in 2017 was sentenced today to 37 months in prison and to five years of supervised release, said U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Michael Tobias, 37 of Southeast D.C., pled guilty today to trafficking crack cocaine and maintaining a stash residence and arsenal, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Ashan M. Benedict, Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Division of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: The grants, selected competitively from 82 community-based marine debris removal and research proposals received this year, are spread across 10 U.S. states and territories and 2 federally recognized tribes. Ten marine debris removal projects will receive a total of $1.5 million, while four research programs will receive a total of $1.2 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, United States Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Myles Scales, 28, of Buffalo, New York, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute butyryl fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: A Mansfield physician was indicted in federal court for allegedly leading a conspiracy in which he is accused of illegally prescribing tens of thousands of doses of painkillers and other controlled substances, including oxycodone, hydrocodone, methadone and fentanyl, and providing them to another man who sold the drugs.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Starting Aug. 16, a coalition of state and federal agencies, with support from local tribes, will begin the third two-week round of translocating mountain goats from Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest to the northern Cascade Mountains to meet wildlife management goals in all three areas. Since September 2018, 174 mountain goats have been translocated.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that GARY PETER SIMON, JR., age 56, a resident of Mandeville, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on Aug. 13, 2019 before United States District Judge Greg G. Guidry to a one-count bill of information charging him with intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization and recklessly causing damage resulting in loss of more than $5,000 during one year, in violation of 18 U.S.C. '' 1030(a)(5)(B) and 1030(c)(4)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Winston-Salem, N.C. - A man who pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography was sentenced today, announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Aug. 14, 2019, a federal grand jury returned two separate indictments charging Carlos Rafael Rosario-Morales and Héctor L. Maldonado-Sierra for two separate violent crime events, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. The FBI and the Puerto Rico Police Department are in charge of the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - William J. Richardet, 64, of Jefferson County, and Cardinal Lawn and Landscape, Inc., of High Ridge, MO, both pled guilty to one count each of conspiracy to commit visa fraud. Richardet appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Henry Autrey who accepted his plea and set sentencing for Nov. 12, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Manish Patel, 33, of Granite Bay, appeared today in federal court on charges of conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute marijuana plants and tetrahydrocannabinols contained in hashish oil, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A convicted drug dealer with a lengthy criminal history was sentenced to life in federal prison today in connection with the killing of a drug supplier at point-blank range during a drug deal gone bad in November 2013, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION -- A Grand Junction Jury took less than an hour of deliberation to convict Robert Timothy Allen of depredation of federal property. The guilty verdict was announced on Aug. 14, 2019, in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Aug. 15, 2019, charging a resident of Port Deposit, Maryland with one count of wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kevin Alexander Miske, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 46 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
