News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a scheme to embezzle over a million dollars from a Massachusetts company.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Augustin Gallegos, 34, of Portales, N.M., made his initial appearance in federal court in Roswell, N.M., yesterday on an indictment charging him with production of child pornography. Gallegos remains in federal custody pending arraignment and a detention hearing, both of which are scheduled for Aug. 13, 2019, in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Byron Keith Goines, age 25, of Gwynn Oak, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to the federal charge of theft of firearms from a federal firearms licensee’s inventory, in connection with the burglary of a Halethorpe, Maryland gun dealer on Jan. 21, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Defendant previously deported four times. BOSTON - A Honduran national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for illegal reentry. Hermes Noel Vasquez-Espinal, 42, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to six months in prison and one year of supervised release. Vasquez-Espinal...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing crack cocaine to distribute.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Van Buren, MO: A special hunting opportunity is being offered to our military service members with mobility impairments. The Big Spring Exceptional Warrior Managed Deer Hunt, in partnership with the Foundation for Exceptional Warriors (The FEW) will be held November 9 and 10.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Cape Lookout National Seashore and Cape Hatteras National Seashore will celebrate International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend on Saturday, August 17th and Sunday, August 18th from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Park staff and members of both the Carteret County Amateur Radio Society and The Outer Banks Repeater Association...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: * An investigation of the human-caused fire at the North Entrance of Yellowstone National Park resulted in a suspect who was charged for discarding a lighted material in a hazardous manner.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that PASCAL CALOGERO, III, age 60, a resident of Metairie, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Sarah S. Vance after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James Walton, 48, formerly of Webster, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to bank fraud. The charge carries maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. -- United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a California man was sentenced in federal court on his conviction for being a felon in possession of firearms. Tiero Wash, 23, was sentenced to 52 months in federal prison. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Mercer County Home Confinement Office, and the Bluefield City Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: University of Guam Professor Arrested for Conspiring a Bid Rigging Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that PASCAL CALOGERO, III, age 60, a resident of Metairie, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Sarah S. Vance after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: On August 7, 2019, Ariana Fajardo Orshan, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Division, and Roland D. Pandolfi, Chief of Police, Miccosukee Police Department, announced the unsealing of a 63-count...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JULIET JACOB, 50, of Wake Forest, North Carolina, formerly of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to a year and a day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in two separate Medicaid fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - MICAH LYNNE WASCHER, 36, and TRAVIS EUGENE WASCHER, 42, both of Canute, Oklahoma, have been charged with methamphetamine distribution, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing. The defendants are married and, at the time of the alleged offenses, were Correctional Officers for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections at the North Fork Correctional Facility in Sayre.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-Billings resident Larry Benjamin Barnett, who admitted distributing methamphetamine and having a firearm, was sentenced today to seven years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Austin,TX - The U.S. Marshals-led Lone Star Fugitive Task Force Wednesday evening arrested a man wanted in a July homicide of an Austin man and a November 2018 homicide of a woman in Erie, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - United States Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen and the U.S. Attorney David L. Anderson announce that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has charged 13 defendants with engaging in a conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. The charges were made in a complaint filed July 31, 2019 and unsealed today following the arrest of 11 defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Hurricane man pled guilty to a federal firearm offense today, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Johnny Ray Thacker, 63, pled guilty to carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime before United States District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin. Stuart commended the investigation...
