News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 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 Jake Seright, 40, of Niagara Falls, New York, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with the intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to a bank fraud scheme to cash stolen and counterfeit checks.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on a recent report that BDO Puerto Rico, a financial services and accounting firm with multiple Puerto Rican government contracts, may be shredding documents following his and Rep. Nydia Velázquez’s request for a formal investigation of the firm’s audits and work products.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Independence, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dakota J. Sarfaty, 22, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to theft of firearms from a Federal Firearms Licensee and possession of stolen firearms. The charges each carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, PA - The search for 15 Most Wanted fugitive Peter Chadwick is over. The millionaire murder suspect was arrested Sunday, Aug. 4, in the city of Atlixco, approximately 90 miles outside of Mexico City.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 165,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - The Ikes Fire moved into the northeast portion of the planning area that has a history of little to no fire activity in over two decades. This wildfire is consuming heavy fuel accumulations on the forest floor and is helping ensure the ecosystem will be healthier and more resilient in the future.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Dannie Curlee, Jr., 46, of Picayune, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. to producing images of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - After reaching a plea deal this morning before trial was scheduled to begin, Derrick Curry, 39, of Monroe, Louisiana, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Robert Kirk, 36, of Schenectady, New York, was charged today in a five-count indictment for sexually exploiting a child by using a minor to create sexually explicit images on a cellular telephone, and distributing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today, in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced ANDRE ALAN THORPE, 36, of Roxboro, North Carolina to 480 months’ imprisonment, followed by lifetime of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett today sentenced Jovon Lee, age 41, of Baltimore, to 10 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. On May 8, 2019, a federal jury convicted Lee after a three-day trial.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: WINTER HARBOR, MAINE - A person at a hike-in campsite at Schoodic Woods Campground started an illegal campfire that eventually became a brush fire on Tue Aug 6. A camper at another hike-in site reported the fire to park rangers shortly before 5 pm. Several fire department including Winter Harbor, Gouldsboro...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeking Information from a Bank Robbery in Aventura.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jason O. Garcia, 42, of Toronto, Ontario, and Jose Herrera-Galvaz, 43, a citizen and native of Chile, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with harboring an illegal alien and attempted illegal entry respectively. Garcia faces five years in prison if convicted; Herrera-Galvaz faces six months in prison if he is convicted.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced NATHANIEL CLEVESTER CLARK, 28, of Rocky Mount, North Carolina to 60 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Jessica M. Teixeira, 41, of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 41 months in prison for wire fraud and money laundering charges related to a fraudulent investment scheme, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: On Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019 at 1 p.m., Homestead National Monument of America Artist-in-Residence Vickie MacMillan will present a public workshop in which participants create their own one foot by one foot barn quilt square at the Homestead Education Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Harrisburg, PA - Today, U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Khalic Cross - a 25-year old York man.
