News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Kristina Blake, 29, of Northfield, pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A three-count indictment by a federal grand jury was unsealed today charging Dariush Niknia, 56, of Elk Grove, and Richard Lant, 74, of Las Vegas, Nevada, with a conspiracy to violate the United States’ embargo on Iran and engaging in prohibited trade-related transactions with Iran, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Defrauded Investors of Millions of Dollars by Posing as a British Billionaire with Inside Track on New Companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Behzad Sabagh, 37, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 1 month imprisonment, 9 months house arrest as part of 3 years supervised release, $30,000 fine and $100 special assessment plus costs of prosecution by United States District Judge Wendy Beetlestone. Sabagh pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud in April 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Jamaican defendant convicted of conducting lottery scam to defraud elderly victims throughout the United States of their retirement accounts and savings and making death threats.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Joshua Lamar Artis, 29, also known as “K.O" (Knock-Out), of Dale City and Woodbridge, Virginia, was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison, concurrent to the sentence he is currently serving for a gun offense in Prince William County, Virginia, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) praised the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for signing a historic Memorandum of Cooperation with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) to increase effectiveness in developing advanced nuclear technologies.
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 EPA Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed rule to require health warnings with color images for cigarette packages and advertisements...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Chad Juan M. Neal, of Duquesne, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 22 months incarceration for heroin distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two former residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury today indicted Stephen Lyle Orback, age 64, on the federal charge of making threatening communications, specifically multiple telephone calls threatening a synagogue.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Lamar Thornton, aka “Juice", 26, of Detroit, was sentenced today, to 292 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Karen K. Caldwell, for conspiracy to distribute heroin and carfentanyl.
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: 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 Interior Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: BOULDER CITY, NEV. - The Bureau of Reclamation today released its Colorado River Basin August 2019 24-Month Study, which sets the annual operations for Lake Mead and Lake Powell in 2020. Based on projections in the 24-Month Study, Lake Mead will operate in the Normal or ICS Surplus Condition in Calendar Year 2020 and Lake Powell will operate in the Upper Elevation Balancing Tier in Water Year 2020 (Oct. 1, 2019 through Sept. 30, 2020).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - John A. Crosby, 56, of Redding; Ines S. Crosby, 76, of Orland; and Leslie A. Lohse, 64, of Glenn, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to embezzle or steal from a tribal organization, as well as tax fraud and tax evasion offenses, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Over $5 Million in Restitution Ordered.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Keith Dewayne Drayton, Jr. (23, Ft. Myers) with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. If convicted, Drayton faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Luis Villarreal was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release for possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Edward M. Chen, United States District Judge.
