News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Darlene M. Altvater, age 48, of Mechanicsville, Maryland, late yesterday to five months in prison, followed by five months home detention and three years of supervised release, for two counts of making false statements to obtain federal disability benefits. Chief Judge Chasanow also ordered Altvater to pay restitution, with the exact amount still to be determined.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - LaFrances Dudley O’Neal, 49, of Clinton, Md., has been found guilty by a jury for her part in a mortgage fraud scheme that cost lenders more than $900,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman announced today the unsealing of an indictment against Jose Guadalupe Tapia-Quintero, 42, a Mexican national and high ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel. Tapia-Quintero was indicted by a federal grand jury in February 2013 on various...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Domeen Flowers, 49, of Maitland, Florida, was sentenced today to 28 months in prison for an identity theft scheme in which she stole the personal information of a taxpayer. Flowers, a former employee of the Internal Revenue Service in Philadelphia, used her position with the IRS to make...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Savannah Rae Williams, 25, of Houston, has been convicted of wire fraud in relation to a debt relief scheme operating throughout the area, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Set for trial next week, Williams entered a plea this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 61-year-old Deweyville, Texas, man has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Guatemalan national pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a more than $5 million conspiracy that utilized the Missouri Department of Revenue license office in St. Joseph to provide more than 3,500 fraudulent identity documents to illegal aliens across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Pittsburgh residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) today highlighted a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: For Document Fraud. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, announced today that a citizen of Mexico has been charged with Fraud and Misuse of Documents. According to United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Fort Pierre, South Dakota man convicted of Distribution of a Controlled Substance was sentenced on March 25, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking scoping comments, issues and management actions that should be considered in the BLM Colorado White-Nose Syndrome Adaptive Management Strategy and Environmental Assessment to prevent the spread of White-Nose Syndrome.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jeremiah Moorman, 30, a former corrections officer, has been found guilty by a jury of bribery and first-degree theft charges for accepting money under the promise of bringing contraband into a District of Columbia correctional facility, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) today highlighted a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: A man who possessed with intent to distribute methamphetamine pled guilty March 26, 2013, in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: PITTSBUGRH - A resident of New Stanton, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to three years probation, with five months home detention and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $4,914.91 on his conviction of union embezzlement, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announced today that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations has made another seizure of counterfeit DVDs in Lakeland. The seizure is part of a global counterfeit motion picture DVD investigation that began in Lakeland...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Kevinton Reynolds, age 47, of Fort Washington, Maryland, today to six months of home detention as part of 18 months’ probation for failing to file tax returns. Judge Russell ordered Reynolds to pay restitution of $143,815 to the IRS and to perform 1,000 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston man has appeared for arraignment in a 12-count indictment alleging bank embezzlement, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
