News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Han Gil hotel owner Su Amos Mun pleaded guilty today to maintaining a drug-involved premises, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Thirteen junior high and high school students from northern Arkansas participated in a week-long science camp hosted by North Arkansas College (NAC) and Buffalo National River last week. The camp was organized as part of a STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) learning partnership between the park andNAC that promotes experiential education and scientific discovery in the outdoors.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - Learn about the many travel routes that have crossed Nevada in the past 180 years and build your own wagon at the California Trail Interpretive Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - An alleged member of the transnational criminal gang MS-13, or La Mara Salvatrucha, was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with RICO conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Defendant Hid the Gun in a Pant Leg as He Left the Scene of a Dispute.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that James Thomas, a 28 year old resident of Selma, Alabama was sentenced to 24 months of incarceration for possession of a CZ, 40 caliber pistol.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Mark Wesley Schmit (50, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 5 years, and up to 20 years, in federal prison and a potential life term of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - The Ikes Fire, which started on July 25th, is approximately 28 acres. Rain on Wednesday significantly reduced fire behavior, resulting in almost no new fire growth.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 52-year-old Aurora, CO man has been sentenced to federal prison for a wire fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown and FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew D. DeSarno.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Michael Scott Burton, 52, of Decatur, Georgia, was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison yesterday after he pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and money laundering. The sentence was announced today by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Terrance Maurice Goss (33, Tampa) to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for committing four bank robberies and two attempted bank robberies. The court also ordered Goss to forfeit $6,462, the funds he had stolen from the banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Sam Bent, 33, of Saint Johnsbury, Vermont was sentenced today to a five-year period of incarceration upon his conviction for three counts of money laundering and one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging John Irogho, age 38, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and charging Irogho and Odinaka Ekeocha, age 33, of Laurel, Maryland, for conspiracy to commit money laundering, in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain federal benefits. The indictment was returned on July 31, 2019, and unsealed today upon the arrests of the defendants.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of the Interior (DOI) today released a new report, Opportunities Exist To Improve the U.S. Department of the Interior's Efforts To Address Sexual Harassment, that confirms in detail the need for the department and its agencies to take stronger action against sexual harassment of employees. Committee on Natural Resources Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Carson City, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Carson City District, Sierra Front Field Office has concluded the helicopter portion of a wild horse gather in the Pine Nut Mountains near Carson City, Nevada. The BLM removed 36 excess wild horses from public lands during gather operations that...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. -The Bureau of Land Management is excited to host the Wyoming Mustang Days wild horse and burro adoption event at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas on August 13 through August 16. This event will see up to 12 halter and saddle started wild horses and burros available for adoption from the Mantle Ranch.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: A physician with a practice in the District of Columbia was charged in an indictment unsealed today for his role in an alleged $12.7 million health care fraud scheme to submit fraudulent claims to Medicare for complicated medical procedures he never provided.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a man from San Jose, Mexico, who entered the United States and was subsequently apprehended in South Dakota and convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on July 31, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - The owner of an East Providence automobile transport company was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Providence today on charges he falsified U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) - Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) records, fraudulently obtained more than $400,000 from...
