News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Westwood man has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges for owning and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business where he exchanged up to $25 million in cash and virtual currency for individuals, including Darknet drug dealers and other criminals, some of whom used his Bitcoin ATM kiosk.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Aaron Gilliam, 51, of Sherman Oaks, was sentenced today to 22 months in prison for conspiracy to commit bribery, to commit identity fraud, and to commit unauthorized access of a computer, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Henry Alvarez Flores, 38, of Davie, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman to 40 years in prison today for enticing three minors to engage in illicit sexual activity and producing child pornography of the sexual acts (Case No. 18cr60240).
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Central Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Prineville District Office plans to aerial spray the herbicide imazapic (brand names Plateau, Panoramic 2SL, Nufarm 2SL) to treat noxious weeds and invasive non-native weeds on approximately 34,000 acres of BLM-administered lands affected by 2018 wildfires.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today the Trump administration released a new Monument Management Plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument that seeks to open hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands to new oil, gas, and coal extraction and other destructive uses. The new plan is a direct result...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: The FBI is Seeking Information on Two Bank Robberies in Miramar.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that MICHAEL ANTHONY GRIFFIN, SR., 51, of Knightdale, North Carolina, has been charged by a federal grand jury in a five-count indictment. The indictment includes three counts of Wire Fraud, one count of Aggravated Identity Theft, and one count of Access Device Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GEORGE DRAGUSIN, also known as “Georgio Anderini" and “Einstein," 63, a citizen of Romania, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to conspiracy and identity theft charges related to extensive ATM skimming activity that defrauded banks from coast to coast.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Former Service Provider at the San Angelo, Texas, State Supported Living Center Sentenced to 51 Months in Prison After Pleading Guilty to Civil Rights Offense for Assaulting Resident.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jason Yapp, 48, McFarland, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to eight years in federal prison, for robbing two Madison banks. Yapp pleaded guilty to these charges on May 23, 2019. His prison term will be followed by a three-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Remario Revonte Austin, age 37, of Greenville, was convicted following a jury trial in federal court for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Quincy Green a/k/a Wayne Wright, 37, of Washington, D.C. pled guilty today to a charge stemming from an incident in May 2016 in which he shot another man multiple times, causing the victim’s death. Green also pled guilty to another charge, in which he solicited the murder of the girlfriend of a potential witness for the trial of the May 2016 murder, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: RIVERTON, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management and the Wyoming Honor Farm will partner September 13-14 in Riverton for an adoption of gentled wild horses and burros. For more than 30 years, the Honor Farm has shared the BLM’s commitment to place excess wild horses and burros into private care in order to maintain healthy animals on healthy, productive public rangelands.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Possessed and distributed meth within public park zone.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced to 84 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jackie Harper, 27, of Charleston, previously pled guilty to distribution of methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $13.5 million in funding for six projects to develop new approaches to microscopic imaging of plants and microbes, with the goal of advancing bioenergy research.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Aaron Gilliam, 51, of Sherman Oaks, was sentenced today to 22 months in prison for conspiracy to commit bribery, to commit identity fraud, and to commit unauthorized access of a computer, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. -An Olive Branch man was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison on Thursday for Mail Fraud and for Making a False Statement in Connection with the Purchase of a Firearm. U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills sentenced David Quarles, 35, to serve the 51-month prison term and to pay $2,606,529.87 in restitution to US Volvo Group and Chubb Insurance Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: A 39-year-old resident of Saginaw, Michigan, Michael Lee Johnson, was convicted today of unlawful imprisonment, assault of a dating partner by strangulation, assault of a dating partner by suffocation, interstate domestic violence, assault by striking, beating, or wounding, and eight counts of witness tampering by a federal jury in Bay City, Michigan, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Three South American cocaine traffickers were sentenced in federal court this week after being convicted of transporting approximately 1,230 kilograms (2,706 pounds) of cocaine-worth more than $28 million USD-on the high seas. The sentencing hearings followed a week-long trial in April in which a federal jury convicted all three defendants on all charges.
