News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on Aug. 2, 2019, Daniel Greenwood, age 43, was sentenced to 90 months in jail in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont. Greenwood had previously pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio today, 20-year-old Benjamin Joost Bogard was sentenced to 80 months in federal prison for possession of obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Spencer Lee Sarver, of Springfield, Georgia, was sentenced today to 84 months incarceration for distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base or “crack," announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Peggy Louise Farrington and Jacqueline Lee Weigland, both of Galivants Ferry, South Carolina, were sentenced today for distributing fentanyl, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty today to an arms-trafficking crime related to his export of guns to Australia, announced United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of several Boston-based investment companies was arrested yesterday at Logan Airport on charges of operating a Ponzi-like fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy Peer, of Springfield, West Virginia, was sentenced to five years probation and fined $24,000 for violating permits and discharging untreated sewage from his sewage treatment plant, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal jury convicted Abhijit Prasad, 52, of Tracy, of 21 counts of visa fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft today. The case originated in Sacramento when the grand jury there indicted Prasad in 2016, but the case was ultimately tried in San Francisco following a court order transferring the case there.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A local man pleaded guilty today in federal court for violating the Clean Water Act by negligently discharging oil into the Willamette River in Portland.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Eric Mercado, 32, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was arrested in Georgia, and Steven Hardy, 42, of Maynard, Massachusetts, was arrested in Maynard, and both were charged today by criminal complaint unsealed in U.S. District Court in Maine with conspiring to interfere with commerce by robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: FBI/Philadelphia Police Department Violent Crimes Task Force Releases Video from August One Armored Car Robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: FREDERICK, MD - Join Monocacy National Battlefield on Saturday and Sunday, August 10-11, 2019, for a living history weekend. Visitors can explore an encampment of soldiers, experience Civil War music and witness infantry and artillery demonstrations.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on August 5, 2019, the Honorable Pamela Pepper sentenced Albert Golant, aka Alex Golant, (age: 38) of Wales, Wisconsin to 126 months’ imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release for wire fraud and conspiracy to commit tax fraud. The Court deferred the imposition of a restitution order at this time.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Park staff briefly closed the Denali Park Road to all traffic at mile 48, just west of Polychrome Pass. The closure was due to a large mudslide that covered the area in debris flow. At approximately 1:50 p.m. the Alaska Region Communication Center received a call from a Joint Venture bus driver stating...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former owner of restaurants in Boston and Chelsea was convicted today by a federal jury in Boston of tax fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published a Notice of Intent in the Federal Register announcing that the department will develop an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to study the impacts of building a Versatile...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: DNA on Beanie Left at Crime Scene Led to Defendant’s Arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - David Anthony Richardson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 63 months incarceration for distributing fentanyl, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Mikhail Munoz, 31, originally of St. Croix, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
