News from April 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: Dontaya S. Devore, 38, of Philadelphia, was charged today by Information with participating in a mortgage fraud conspiracy involving more than 100 Philadelphia properties and more than $20 million in fraudulent loan proceeds, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Devore is charged with...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: Today, the Government Accountability Office released the report, “INFORMATION SHARING: Agencies Could Better Coordinate to Reduce Overlap in Field-Based Activities." GAO found criminal and anti-terrorism centers sometimes conducted overlapping activities, and the federal government does not hold the entities accountable for coordinating their efforts, and preventing duplication or overlap of information-sharing efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - After a two-day trial in District Court on St. Thomas, a federal jury found.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On April 4, 2013, Gerardo Salinas, Jr., age 31, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced to 61 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana and five kilograms or more of cocaine, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. United States District Judge John A. Jarvey also sentenced Salinas to five years supervised release following imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration - Boston Field Division; United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; Chief Emanuel C. Gomes of the Brockton Police Department; Colonel Timothy Alben, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police; and Timothy J.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: For Federal Drug Trafficking Offenses;. Cocaine and Other Drugs Seized in Search of His Apartment;. Drugs Had a Street Value of About $100,000. WASHINGTON - Eddie P. Burroughs, 24, was sentenced today to 7 ½ years in prison on three federal drug charges stemming from a search by law enforcement that led...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: Raymone “Ramone" Clements was found guilty following a jury trial of one count each of being a felon in possession of a firearm and being a felon in possession of ammunition, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 28-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for burglarizing a bank in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Late yesterday, two developers who admitted conspiring to defraud U.S. Bank and Texas Capital Bank in connection with a $39 million construction loan for a commercial/residential development in Austin, Texas, were sentenced. U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn sentenced Anirdh Sarwal, 39...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Robert Fenn, 27, of Herndon, Va., was convicted by a federal jury today of receiving and possessing child pornographyFenn was a special education teacher at Poplar Tree Elementary School in Chantilly, Va., prior to his arrest on related state charges in June 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: Suit Alleges Practice Of Fraudulent Loan Certification Resulting In At Least $12 Million In Losses On FHA-Insured Loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that KEVIN BOLDEN, 47, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 108 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for robbing six Connecticut banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Westmoreland County pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of New York. Thursday, April 4, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Patricia Pacheco, age 23, of Rosebud, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on April 2, 2013 and pled guilty to Count II of the Indictment that charged her with Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Jerrick Hawkins was sentenced to 37 months in prison on multiple fraud charges involving a scheme to defraud lenders by submitting false information on real estate loan applications. Most of the loans made as a result of the scheme went into default because the borrowers failed to make...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: Boston - Seven men were arrested in Brockton and Stoughton charged today in federal court on oxycodone distribution charges and aiding and abetting. An eighth man was arrested and charged on state drug charges also.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: Monte Vista, Colorado - Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado is partnering with the US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management to help increase volunteer capacity on public lands. Several specialized skill trainings will be offered this spring to help volunteers prepare for upcoming projects in the summer and fall.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: Studies at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that examined the long-term sustainability of degraded water reuse have demonstrated that irrigation wastewater can be used to revive non-productive saline and sodic soils in California's San Joaquin Valley.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding was sentenced to 6 months in custody on April 2, 2013 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
