News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Henry Berg, 42, formerly of Arcadia, Wisconsin, and currently of Geneva, Illinois, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to one year and one day in federal prison for lying on a farm loan application. He was also sentenced to four years of supervised release following incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that RODNEY J. STRAIN (a/k/a Jack Strain), age 56, from Abita Springs, Louisiana, was charged today by a federal grand jury in a 16-count Indictment with conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, soliciting a bribe, and offering a bribe in...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-The pastor of the United Pentecostal Church in Butte appeared today on wire fraud charges and admitted to embezzling $288,757 from the organization over a four-year period, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Franklin man pleaded guilty today to producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to three years and two months (38 months) in prison and three years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp has sentenced Jeffrey McKinney (62, Minneola) to two years in federal prison for wire fraud. McKinney was also ordered to serve two years of supervised release and to pay $828,894.25 in restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: The USS Arizona Memorial will reopen Sunday, Sept. 1. The National Park Service, in coordination with the United States Navy and contractors, completed the final phase.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: Steburg, a twice convicted felon prohibited from possessing guns, sold meth and a stolen handgun to an informant.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Ely District is monitoring the tenth-acre Sheep Creek Fire in the Mt. Grafton Wilderness, about 30 miles south of Ely, Nev. The lightning-ignited fire was first reported at about 8 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 28.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Matthew Bulovsky, 25, Lodi, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to seven years in prison for distributing child pornography. This term of imprisonment is to be followed by 10 years of supervised release. Bulovsky pleaded guilty to this offense on May 15, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: For Maintaining A Drug-Involved Premises and Possessing A Firearm In Furtherance Of A Drug Trafficking Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kevin Nugent, age 41, of Clifton Park, New York, was arrested on August 27 on a complaint charging him with attempted enticement and coercion of a minor into committing criminal sex acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Over 120 law enforcement officers from 30 law enforcement agencies in Virginia, North Carolina and Texas executed a major arrest operation over the last three days, resulting in 35 of defendants being arrested for their respective roles in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute large amounts of heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and cocaine base in Hampton Roads.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the arrest of MICHAEL HILD, the founder, former chief executive...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - DON EDWARD PANNELL, II (“PANNELL"), age 32, of Harvey, Louisiana, entered a plea of guilty on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019 to Receipt of Child Pornography, announced United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - Sandy Green, of Fairborn, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 48 months in prison for wire fraud as part of a scheme to defraud her previous employers.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: On Aug. 24, 2019, seabird biologists with Channel Islands National Park and the California Institute for Environmental Studies confirmed the first record of a brown booby chick from an active nest on Sutil Rock off Santa Barbara Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: A Mahoning County man was charged in federal court with making threats against a Jewish community center in Youngstown.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that William Battle, age 28, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Aug. 28, 2019, before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to participating in a sex trafficking conspiracy that involved using threats and coercion to force women to engage in prostitution in the Monroe County area between 2011 and June 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Jovan Demetrius Fredericks (40, Ocala) to 25 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, possession with the intent to distribute controlled substances, and carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime. A federal jury had found Fredericks guilty of the offenses on March 5, 2019.
