News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - George Lewis Blackledge III, 34, of Biloxi, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 46 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced. He was also ordered to pay a $3,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Lexington, Mo., business owner has been sentenced in federal court for filing a false income tax return after claiming earned income tax credits despite his extravagant lifestyle.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Public scoping comments for the Going-to-the-Sun Road Corridor Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement are due by Friday, September 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Jesus Manuel Avila, 46, of Ammon, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court to 12 months in prison, followed by 12 months of home detention with electronic monitoring, for distributing five grams or more of actual methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Avila to serve five years of supervised release and pay a $1,000 fine. He pleaded guilty to the charge on March 19, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Jose Alberto Izquierdo-Gonzalez, 28, an undocumented Mexican alien who had been living in Laredo, has been ordered to federal prison for assaulting Border Patrol agents and transporting aliens, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Izquierdo-Gonzalez entered a plea of guilty March 28, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Harris County resident Maria Eliza Garza has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud seven different Houston-area banks or more than $2 million in 2007 and 2008, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Little Eagle, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA - Charles W. Johns, 60, of Hoboken, Georgia was sentenced last month by United States Chief District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 78 months in prison for his role in a methamphetamine conspiracy operating in the Waycross, Georgia area. Judge Wood previously sentenced 4 others from the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a Superseding Indictment for one count of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child, six counts of Aggravated Sexual Contact with a Child, and one count of Abusive Sexual Contact.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - United States Attorney David Capp announced that Raymond Campos, a member of the Imperial Gangster street gang, pled guilty today in US District Court to racketeering conspiracy.Campos admitted to being a member of the Imperial Gangsters and participating in the operation of that criminal enterprise through shootings and homicides.Campos also agreed to cooperate with the government in its ongoing investigation into criminal gangs.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A resident of the Dominican Republic was sentenced today for illegally reentering the United States after being previously deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Sylvia Salinas Ramirez, of Driscoll, and Debra Jean Velasquez, of Robstown, have been convicted of wire fraud and conspiring to do so as part of a scheme to defraud the Texas Medicaid program through fraudulent home health billings, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARCUS DWYER, 41, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 188 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for robbing a Killingworth bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that two top senior executives of an employment staffing agency that operated in West Virginia were sentenced to prison for failing to pay more than $630,000 in federal employment taxes. Daniel Hovis, owner and president of Career Search...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Aleksandr N. Zagorodny, 40, of Southampton, PA, was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for a healthcare fraud scheme involving MedEx Ambulance, Inc., located in Feasterville, PA. Zagorodny was the President and a founder of MedEx Ambulance. His 36 year-old brother, Sergey Zagorodny...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a man from Mexico convicted of Illegal Reentry After Deportation was sentenced on Aug. 28, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Grand Canyon National Park will be joining national park units across the country in celebrating National Public Lands Day (NPLD) with fee free entry into the park on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of New York. Wednesday, September 4, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - After a two-day trial in district court on St. Thomas, a federal jury convicted Rodney E. Miller, Sr., 41, of causing, and aiding and assisting in the preparation of his personal Individual Income Tax Return, Form 1040 for calendar year 2006, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe, Internal Revenue Service Special Agent in Charge Michael DePalma and Internal Revenue Service Head of the Special Enforcement Program Terry Travers, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: SAN JOSE - A federal jury in San Jose convicted Michael Swanson, of Seaside, Calif., yesterday with mail fraud, wire fraud, securities fraud, and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
