News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew sentenced Hantz Saint Marc today to four years and six months in federal prison for theft of government property and aggravated identity theft. Saint Marc pleaded guilty on Feb. 19, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management signed a Decision Record Aug. 15 authorizing the proposed Gore Canyon Whitewater Park at the Pumphouse Recreation Site on the upper Colorado River.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, Edward L. Stanton III, announced that Janett Dixon, 48, of Northport, Alabama; Corey Holmes, 37, of Metcalfe, Mississippi; Nia Kimble-Harris, 39, of Memphis, Tennessee; and Charles Ray Lee, 32, of Magee, Mississippi; have entered diversion agreements in the two-decade teacher certification testing scam led by ringleader Clarence Mumford, Sr., 61, of Memphis, who pled guilty in the scheme last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Shahmell Robinson, 21, of Rochester, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with producing child pornography and conspiring with others to produce child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30 years, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee’s 21st Century Cures initiative has garnered significant support since its start earlier this year. Now, members of the committee are bringing the conversation back home. Health care professionals and patients continue to share their ideas and first-hand experiences as members host events in their home states and communities across the nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that GIOVANNI CANDELARIO, 21, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a firearm...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney, Kenyen R. Brown announced Johnnie Lee Parks, 43, of Mobile, was sentenced today in federal court to 33 months imprisonment for his illegal possession of a firearm. Parks was previously convicted of possession of marijuana first when he was found in possession of a handgun under suspicious circumstances. United States District Court Judge William H. Steele imposed the sentence this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: Law Enforcement testimony revealed the defendant possessed 1,000 videos and 100 images depicting child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Shantelle P. Kitchen, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), announced today that BERNARD KRAMER pled guilty to conspiring to conceal...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: OWENSBORO, Ky. - A Henderson County, Kentucky man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today, before Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., to three charges of bank robbery, announced David. J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christopher Alex Ruiz, 26, of Las Cruces, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The guilty plea was entered without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Marlique Jermaine Bridges of Mobile was sentenced following a May 2014 guilty plea to a charge of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. Bridges was previously convicted in Mobile County of Robbery, First Degree in 2012. By virtue of this conviction, Bridges is prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: Defendant Trafficked Over 3,000 Kilograms Of Marijuana And Obstructed Justice By Threatening Witnesses.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee’s 21st Century Cures initiative has garnered significant support since its start earlier this year. Now, members of the committee are bringing the conversation back home. Health care professionals and patients continue to share their ideas and first-hand experiences as members host events in their home states and communities across the nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Elise Elizabeth Perez, 42, of North Highlands, pleaded guilty today to four counts of bank fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, and two counts of possession of stolen mail, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Luger announced an indictment unsealed on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014, after the arrest of two defendants charged in a conspiracy to file fraudulent tax returns while incarcerated in state prison. A federal grand jury on Aug. 12, 2014, returned a 21-count indictment charging TONY TERRELL ROBINSON, 30, and TANKA JAMES TETZLAFF, 39, with conspiring to defraud the United States and filing and making false claims against the government.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE - A Cupertino businessman was sentenced yesterday to prison and ordered to forfeit $100,000 arising out of his H-1B Visa Fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, Diplomatic Security Service Special Agent in Charge Dean K. Shear, Nick Annan, Acting Special Agent in Charge for U.S.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - An Ogden woman wanted by Salvadoran authorities for allegedly orchestrating the February 2013 murder of her husband was deported to El Salvador Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that John David Przenkop, age 47, of Columbus, Georgia, appeared in federal court on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014 and was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 120 months to be followed by lifetime supervision after his release from prison. Przenkop was sentenced by the Honorable Clay D. Land, U.S. District Court Judge, in Columbus, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
