News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - John Wayne Crites, of Moorefield, West Virginia, was sentenced today to five years probation and ordered to pay more than $217,000 for his role in a methamphetamine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - Trial for a Piatt County farmer has been scheduled for Nov. 18, 2019, after a federal grand jury indicted James R. Williams, 59, of Cisco, Ill., on charges of bank fraud and concealment of bankruptcy assets.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tyrone Grandberry, 59, of Woodbridge, Virginia, pled guilty yesterday to federal charges of wire fraud, stemming from a scheme to defraud individuals that trusted the defendant to invest money on their behalf, and possessing a fraudulent immigration document, stemming from obtaining and possessing a fraudulent Austrian passport in another name.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 42-year-old Dennis Edward Stephen of San Antonio, to 15 years in federal prison for robbing multiple San Antonio banks and stealing approximately $479,000, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, F.B.I. Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and San Antonio Police Chief William McManus.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Rashad Coleman, age 26, and Coreon House, age 21, both of Indianapolis, Indiana, were each sentenced on July 30, 2019, by United States District Court Senior Judge James M. Munley, to serve 125 months’ imprisonment for the armed robbery of a CVS Pharmacy in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Following a five-day jury trial, an Escambia County, Florida man was convicted of participating in a two-week interstate crime spree during which the defendant and his then-girlfriend committed five armed robberies and two armed carjackings across the southeastern United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced McEndy Alce (33, Immokalee) to 15 years in federal prison for production of child pornography. The court also ordered Alce to forfeit two iPhones and an iPod Touch that had been used to facilitate the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas W. Pilchak (619) 546-9709.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a former Secretary of the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s Credit and Finance Office was sentenced to 5 years of federal probation for Embezzlement and Theft from an Indian Tribal Organization. Helen Hernandez, age 41, was also ordered to pay $42,100 in restitution. She pleaded guilty to felony embezzlement on April 5, 2019, at the federal courthouse in Rapid City, South Dakota.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Global Trade Investigations Division announced July 31, a partnership with Liberty Shared, a nongovernmental organization with global coverage founded in Hong Kong, to combat forced labor in global commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Department of Justice Begins Fourth Distribution of Funds Recovered Through Asset Forfeiture to Compensate Victims of Bernard Madoff Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - On July 18, 2019, the National Park Service (NPS) acting Intermountain Regional Director signed the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the environmental assessment (EA) to allow park concessionaires, Xanterra and Delaware North, to develop seasonal housing for their employees in Yellowstone National Park at Canyon Village and the West Entrance. Housing improvements, funded by concessionaires, could begin as early as fall, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: I’m here today to give an update on important bipartisan advances we are making to reduce the price of prescription medicine for the American people.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - The Ikes Fire, which started on July 25th, is approximately 25 acres. Fire behavior was active with surface fire of three to five foot flames where the fire was consuming dead logs. The fire is backing and flanking towards the east.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 38-year-old ex-employee of a local bank who resides in Houston has pleaded guilty to embezzlement, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Haitian national was charged today in federal court in Boston with illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on July 30, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Christine Kay Woods, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 46 months incarceration for methamphetamine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Anibal Luis Rodriguez, age 28, who resided in Pottsville, Reading, and Allentown during the time of the offense, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 20 years’ imprisonment for participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Admitted Murdering Union County Man as Part of Racketeering Conspiracy.
