News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: Executive Arrested and Charged for Bribery and Money-Laundering Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Smithfield man was sentenced today to three consecutive life sentences in prison for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion and of a minor; sex trafficking by force fraud and coercion; sex trafficking of a minor; using the internet to promote a prostitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man was sentenced today in federal court for inappropriately touching a 17-year-old customer at a Sapulpa convenience store, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces that the United States Marshals Service (USMS) has approved the payment of a reward for information that led to an arrest in the homicide of 10-year-old Jadon Knox.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Almendra Escobedo-Orozco, 36, of Mexico, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Escobedo-Orozco...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Jalin Tyref Mcarn, of Charleston, West Virginia, was indicted today on a firearms charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Tanner Brown, 25, of Cobleskill, New York, was sentenced today in federal court in Syracuse to 18 months of Probation and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine, after previously pleading guilty to one felony count of delaying the mail, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Special Agent in Charge Matthew Modafferi, United States Postal Service-Office of Inspector General (USPS-OIG), Northeast Area Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: DENVER - Former California attorney David Kaplan, of Las Vegas, was sentenced on Aug. 3, by U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Tonight, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the filing of a new Joint Status Report in the Committee’s case to access former President Donald Trump’s tax information...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Aug. 2, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Holts Summit, Missouri, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for the armed robbery of a Dollar General store in Jefferson City, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: LOUISVILLE, KY - A federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, returned an indictment today charging a Louisville man with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Winfred Pimentel, 25, of Lowell, Massachusetts was sentenced on Monday to 144 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl and distributing fentanyl, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
Release: CLEVELAND - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a loaded handgun from making its way onboard an airplane at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) Tuesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: The Defendant Agrees to Forfeit $10 Million as Part of His Plea Agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: MOBILE, AL - The U.S. District Court sentenced a Mobile woman to 3 years of probation, 80 hours of community service, and a $1,000 fine for sending by mail a false claim for personal injuries and vehicle damage allegedly caused by defective Takata airbag inflators that sent shrapnel flying when they deployed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Victor L. Roebuck, II, of Long Beach, California, was indicted today on a marijuana charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. - As students across Nebraska return to school, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Omaha Division is reminding families to make time for conversation about the dangers of drugs and is encouraging discussions on the risk of overdose associated with counterfeit pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Wilson man was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. On March 23, 2021, Terrance Anthony Moore, 35, was convicted of the charge by a jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: Sunrhys, LLC, a landlord and property management company headquartered in Tacoma, Washington, agreed to pay $16,618 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by overcharging a tenant and by fraudulently obtaining federal funds from a federal program designed to provide housing to homeless Veterans.
