News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Attempted Possession of Child Pornography was sentenced on July 20, 2021, by Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - On Feb. 24, 2021, at a sewer repair worksite on High Street in downtown Boston, Jordy Alexander Castaneda Romero, 27, and Juan Carlos Figueroa Gutierrez, 33, died after a dump truck struck and pushed them into a nine-foot deep trench. For their employer, Atlantic Coast Utilities LLC/Advanced...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday, CARL RAMON BROWN, II, 46, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced to serve six years in federal prison for illegal possession of ammunition after previously being convicted of a felony, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: - The U.S. Census Bureau recently began collecting data for the new Institute of Education Sciences (IES) School Pulse Panel (SPP) Survey as part of the efforts to measure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public school students and staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: A man who shot at an occupied vehicle in an apartment complex parking lot was sentenced today to more than eight years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Hampton-based U.S. defense contractor, its owner, and four of its employees were sentenced yesterday and today. The owner was sentenced to 58 months in prison, and his four employees were sentenced today to a combined 93 months years in prison, for engaging in an extensive procurement fraud scheme involving more than $7 million in government contracts targeting the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal government agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: Police Officers Allegedly Filed False Police Reports and False Claims to Obtain Reimbursement for Purported Losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A resident of San Antonio has entered a guilty plea to importing almost 17 kilograms of cocaine into the United States, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: A former Bixby High School teacher who was caught using his cell phone to inappropriately record underneath a female student’s skirt pleaded guilty today in federal court, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Central Falls man with an extensive criminal record, including convictions for drug trafficking, assault, breaking and entering, and domestic assault, today pleaded guilty in federal court to possession with the intent to distribute more than 28 grams of a mixture containing cocaine base (crack cocaine), announced Acting United States Attorney Richard B. Myrus.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday, CARL RAMON BROWN, II, 46, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced to serve six years in federal prison for illegal possession of ammunition after previously being convicted of a felony, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - An Evanston woman used insider information obtained from her husband to purchase shares of a company ahead of its acquisition by her husband’s employer, according to a federal criminal charge filed today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: PONTOON BEACH, Ill. - A St. Louis man who tried to buy cocaine in Illinois has been sentenced to 87 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The owner of a suburban Chicago prescription drug wholesale distribution company purchased more than $57 million worth of diverted, unregulated prescription drugs and re-sold them to unsuspecting pharmacies and other wholesalers, according to a federal indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA -- Edgar Antwarn Moultrie, 46, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced yesterday to fifteen years in federal prison following his conviction for receipt of child pornography. Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Jimmy N. Rotstein (619) 546-8573, Colin M. McDonald (619) 546-9144, and Victor P. White (619) 546-8439.
By State Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
Release: This statement has been co-signed by Albania, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, European Union, Honduras, Guatemala, North Macedonia, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Senegal, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla -- FEMA has approved $12,072,040 for the Florida Division of Emergency Management for emergency protective measures it provided in response to Hurricane Sally in 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: Scam Involved Filing of False Income Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced today that TERRELL RICHARDSON (“RICHARDSON"), age 37, of Westwego, Louisiana, was sentenced to thirty-seven (37) months imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Martin L. C. Feldman for being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. Additionally, RICHARDSON was ordered to serve three (3) years of supervised release and pay a $100 mandatory special assessment fee.
