News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A man who conspired with a now-deceased Henderson pediatrician to take thousands of dollars from chronically ill patients for fraudulent stem cell implant procedures, was sentenced today to 17½ years in federal prison and ordered to pay approximately $1 million in restitution, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Kenneth Wayne Hugo, age 37, of El Paso County, Colorado, was ordered held without bond yesterday by a U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael E. Hegarty after being charged with the sexual exploitation of children, distribution of child pornography, and possession of child pornography, United States Attorney...
By State Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued this statement following President Rouhani’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: RUSHVILLE - Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced today the conviction of a Rushville-area resident on charges related to the illegal purchase of firearms. James I. Bowling, age 41, of Manilla, was found guilty by a jury of his peers after a two day trial in Indianapolis. The jury found that Bowling provided false information in purchasing a firearm, and illegally received a gun while under indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Roberto Tapia, former Director of the Environmental Enforcement Division of the Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources (DPNR), pleaded guilty today in federal district court to using DPNR as a criminal enterprise to engage in illegal drug trafficking activities...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: Approximately $500,000 in Cash, Cocaine, Methamphetamine and Firearms Were Seized During Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle, of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Sept. 23, 2013, James Allen Mereness (age: 57) of New London, Wisconsin was sentenced to 10 months in a federal prison by Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach. Mereness had previously pled guilty to a single count of Social Security Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: THOMAS DOMBROSKI, age 54, of North Syracuse, New York, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Syracuse on Sept. 20, 2013 to 5 years probation and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service for defrauding the U.S. Postal Service and U.S. Department of Labor of $18,353.54 by making false statements and representations to obtain federal workers compensation benefits according to U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: AMARILLO, - Texas - A total of 14 individuals, residents of the Amarillo, Texas, and Panhandle area, are in custody following an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF) operation this morning led by special agents with the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the FBI, on conspiracy and drug trafficking charges outlined in two indictments returned by a federal grand jury earlier this month.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A woman from Hays, Kan., has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $104,000 in government funds from Social Security and Medicaid, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: Brian L. Edelen, 25, of Alton, Illinois, was sentenced today in federal district court, in East St. Louis, Illinois, on an unlawful possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon charge, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - The head of a large Nebraska-based prescription medication provider was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison for conspiring with a former Chicago alderman and another man to commit bribery of a fictitious public official to purportedly obtain business from the Los Angeles County hospital...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Dr. Norman Werther, 73, of Ft. Washington, PA, was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death and more than 300 counts stemming from his pill mill operation. A federal jury convicted Werther on June 11, 2013 of 184 counts of illegally distributing oxycodone, 116 counts of money laundering, six counts of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, and one count of maintaining drug-involved premises.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: SEP 24 (TAMPA, Fla.) - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced yesterday that a federal jury found Vanessa (39, El Cajon, California), Canetha (43, El...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: SEP 24 (BOSTON) - A Webster man was charged yesterday for selling crack cocaine to a cooperating witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Willie Jamal Reynolds, 33, of Opelousas, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Magistrate Judge C. Michael Hill to taking part in the robbery at the U.S. Post Office in Lawtell, La., where a driver was attacked.
By State Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic Member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement in reaction to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a longtime detective with the St. Joseph, Mo., Police Department was indicted by a federal grand jury today for aiding and abetting another person to illegally possess a firearm that he used in a gang-related shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: An indictment was filed charging Marcellus C. Lee, age 33, and Gregory A. Collins, aka “D.D.", age 36, both of Chicago, with one count of conspiracy to distribute a kilogram of heroin and with one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - William Michael Naponelli, 69, and Bryan Atwood, 52, both from Tucson, Ariz., were sentenced to federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson for their role in a mortgage fraud scheme. Naponelli was sentenced to 24 months in prison on Sept. 23, 2013. Attwood was sentenced...
