News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Zachary Alexander Karas was sentenced in federal court today to 33 months in prison for possessing incendiary devices known as Molotov cocktails at a protest that began on May 30, 2020, in La Mesa.
By State Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Paul Channell, 31, of Nashua, pleaded guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: A five-count indictment was filed yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn charging Roman Nikoghosyan, a member of a violent, Brooklyn-based Eurasian organized crime syndicate that operated primarily in the Manhattan Beach and Brighton Beach neighborhoods, with two counts of Hobbs Act extortion conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: Two Inmates Allegedly Conspired with Others to Defraud COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Benefits Programs.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: Growing up in Navajo Nation, Bill Frazier had no idea what a Navajo Code Talker was, much less that they were hiding in plain sight.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Vahan Aghajanyan, 26, of Glendale, California, and Garnik Saroyan, 27, of Sun Valley, California, were sentenced for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - In a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday, a Stockton, California, man has been charged for allegedly using multiple California Employment Development Department (EDD) unemployment insurance benefits debit cards in other peoples’ names without their authorization.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: KEYSTONE, SD - Beginning on August 15 operational hours throughout the park will change. The Evening Lighting Ceremony will start at 8:00 p.m. The Sculpture will be lit at 8:30 p.m. The final ceremony for the season is on September 30. The historic Sculptor's Studio will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Emerson Pinto, 58, of Crownpoint, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty on Aug 11 in federal court to two counts of abusive sexual contact in Indian Country. Pinto will remain in custody pending sentencing, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Bryan Edward Summerton, of Petersburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: FAIRBANKS - A federal jury today convicted a Fairbanks man for stalking and attempting to arrange a murder for hire.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: Night Sky Program: Friday, August 13th, 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM Join park staff and members of the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society to gaze at the dark skies above Florissant Fossil Beds in search of planets, galaxies, nebulas, and more. Meet on the front patio of the visitor center.There are no additional...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: Scams Targeted Companies and Individuals. WASHINGTON - Kelvin Otunyo, 37, of Hyattsville, Md., was sentenced today to 90 months in prison on federal charges stemming from his role in at least six schemes to deposit and launder stolen and unauthorized checks valued at more than $350,000. The announcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Daniel King, 25, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged by Superseding Indictment with three counts of bank robbery; four counts of armed robbery of commercial businesses; one count of using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence; and one count of possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: MILWAUKEE - The Bureau of Land Management is holding a wild horse and burro placement event, offering approximately 60 excess animals gathered from western rangelands at the Washington County Fair Park, in West Bend, Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Earlier this week, a federal jury convicted TRACI ASHFORD, 34, of Oklahoma City, of possessing a firearm after a prior felony conviction of domestic assault and battery, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: Defendant sold four handguns and a sawed-off shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for causing the IRS to issue more than $815,000 in fraudulent tax returns.
