News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence resident was arrested last night and charged today in federal court in Boston with sexually exploiting a 4-year-old.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis M. Cota found Jason A. Tobey, 46, of Dunsmuir, guilty today of one count threatening, intimidating, and interfering with a forest officer, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Harold Lee Redhouse, Jr., 29, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation from Coyote Canyon, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 18 years of imprisonment for sexually abusing two children under the age of 12 years. Redhouse will be on supervised release for ten years after completing his prison sentence. He also will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Waqas Nauman, age 37, of Queensbury, New York, pled guilty today to defrauding Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: A man who fired shots at FBI agents attempting to arrest him in Delaware County on Oct. 1, 2018, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Tyler Goforth was sentenced to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution for his role in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud stemming from a mail theft scheme, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and United States Postal Inspection Service Inspector in Charge Rafael Nuñez. The Honorable Maxine M. Chesney, U.S. District Judge, handed down the sentence.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a Request for Information (RFI) this week seeking to work with stakeholders on the administration of a new aeronautical knowledge test for recreational drone operators.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James Timpanaro, 55, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to false information and hoaxes. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., returned an indictment yesterday charging Eli Frank Woody, 25, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Crownpoint, N.M., with federal assault and firearm charges arising out of a July 18, 2019 drive-by shooting that injured two Navajo children.
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: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man was indicted today by a federal grand jury for running a multi-year investment fraud scheme that caused millions of dollars of losses, Attorney for the United States Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Donald Johnson, 34, of Nashua, pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy on Aug. 14, 2019, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that a Wasilla man has been sentenced to prison on federal wire fraud charges which arose from a scheme that defrauded Alaska consumers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Jose Miguel Melendez-Rojas was extradited to the United States yesterday, and is scheduled to be arraigned today before United States Magistrate Judge Vera M. Scanlon at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on an 18-count indictment charging him with sex trafficking conspiracy, sex trafficking of minors...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that KEVIN RICHARDSON age 56, of New Orleans, LA was charged on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, by a Grand Jury sitting in the Eastern District of Louisiana in a one-count indictment with violating Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1952(a)(3) and 2, use of an interstate facility with intent to carry on unlawful activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Five individuals have been charged by a federal criminal complaint with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and possession with intent to distribute and distribution of controlled substances, in connection with an alleged drug distribution organization operating in Prince...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Two former correctional officers at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, were sentenced today for their roles in assaults on a handcuffed inmate in January 2017. Adrian Almodovar III and Charles Philson III previously pleaded guilty to depriving the inmate of his constitutional rights while acting under color of law.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Waqas Nauman, age 37, of Queensbury, New York, pled guilty today to defrauding Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - Three Chicago men have been charged in a murder-for-hire conspiracy that resulted in two fatal shootings in the city’s Lawndale neighborhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: What I witnessed last night was true heroism by the Philadelphia police. But the crisis was precipitated by a stunning disrespect for law enforcement - a disrespect so flagrant and so reckless that the suspect immediately opened fire on every single officer within shooting distance. Only by the grace of God did they survive.
