News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: West Palm Beach resident and owner of Investment Equity Development, Inc. and Jacob G. Jeune, P.A., located in Miami-Dade County, was sentenced to 15 years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release, for her role in a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service over a period of five years.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Appliances from refrigerators to thermostats are now available in models that interact with a wireless network, making them easier to control with a computer or smartphone. Because these devices can also put our security at risk, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a guide to help us all adjust to a world where seemingly everything is connected - and potentially vulnerable.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On July 29, 2019, Joseph Michael Vosberg, 59, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins to 18 months in prison for assisting in the preparation and filing of false federal income tax returns. Vosberg previously pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon and Homeland Security Investigations Acting Special Agent in Charge Christopher Healy announced today that Miguel Bautista-Manuel, age 41, of Mexico, and Travis Lee Nixon, age 29, of Greenville, were sentenced to federal prison for...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today announced he is conducting an investigation into illegal wage theft practices that harm American workers. Wage theft violates basic fair pay laws and denies workers...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Preston Baxter, age 27, and Dezi Castillo Jr., age 31, were sentenced for conspiring to distribute heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine in Northwest Arkansas. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Stockton residents Donald Earl Freeman Jr., 26, was sentenced today to three years and one month in prison, and Juan Arturo Arroyo Gomez, 32, was sentenced to one year in prison, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday Aug. 17, at 10 am, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will provide a free, 90-minute, 1.2 mile walking tour on the antebellum slave trade along the Brown’s Ferry Federal Road Trace on Moccasin Bend National Archeological District. Look for and follow...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 25-year old man from Laredo has admitted to conspiring with others to possess with the intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has renewed the national Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA) to continue working together to protect workers from exposure to hazardous chemical releases from ammonia refrigeration systems. The alliance will also focus on improving process safety management programs for these systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Browning resident Delwin Paul Calflooking, Sr., today admitted to strangling a woman earlier this year at his home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Jesse Allen Nichols, 37, of Gulfport, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. to transporting images of minors 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 1, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Woodbridge woman who was recently convicted of aggravated sexual battery of a child family member was found guilty today of illegally reentering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that former Philadelphia Sheriff John Green, 72, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to sixty months’ imprisonment, one year supervised release, forfeiture of $76,581, and a $17,500 fine by United States District Court Judge Wendy Beetlestone.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Alexandra F. Foster (619) 546-6735.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: This year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone "- an area of low oxygen that can kill fish and marine life - is approximately 6,952 square miles, according to NOAA-supported scientists.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pa, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A Salvadoran man wanted in his home country for his involvement in a terrorist organization was removed Wednesday by deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A felon who was found guilty of a federal firearm violation was sentenced yesterday to a total of eight years in federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Chapmanville man was sentenced after pleading guilty to drug and firearm offenses, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Courtney Edward Dalton, 39, was sentenced to seven years in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. The case was investigated by the U.S. 119 Drug and Violent Crime Task Force and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
