News from December 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Thomas Hamilton, a/k/a Thomas Smith, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison and ordered to pay $426,911 in restitution for wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a local man was arraigned in federal court in Anchorage on one count of felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a 27-count indictment today against Thomas Romeo, 51, of Sacramento, charging him with a scheme to defraud the United States by evading customs duties owed by his Citrus Heights import business, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Romeo...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man was arrested at his home today by special agents of the FBI and officers of the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office and West Milford Police Department on a charge that he distributed sexually explicit images of children from his computer, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, December 4, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Kevin L. Brown, 44, of Flora, was indicted on Dec. 2, 2014, on methamphetamine related charges in a one count Indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Benton, Illinois...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, December 4, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUSTIN HOGAN, 34, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RONNIE P. VEDROS, 52, of Grand Isle, pled guilty today to one count of mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that Chief Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced BRADLEY BOURQUE, age 33, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to a term of imprisonment of 180 months, to be followed by ten years of supervised release. The Court also ordered BOURQUE to pay $1,000 in restitution to one of his victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Scott Brandon Hutcheson, 37, of Lubbock, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 87 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in August 2014 to one count of transportation of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Scott Israel, Sheriff, Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO), and Frank Fernandez, Chief, Hollywood Police Department, announce that Shaun Eric McKinley, 35, of Hollywood, Florida, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) will hold a pen-and-pad briefing for press on Friday, December 5th at 10:00am to discuss the upcoming informal TPP round in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Jasonn Gonzales was Ring Leader of Multi-State Scheme to Defraud the.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - CHRISTOPHER HOUSTON HENSLEY, 56, of Yukon, Oklahoma, has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with bribing a public official, conspiracy to commit bribery, and making false statements to the federal government, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that EDUIN ALEXANDER BETANCOURTH-SALGADO, age 26, from Honduras, was charged today in a one-count Indictment with illegal reentry into the United States after having been previously deported.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, December 4, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that WILLIAM E. CHASE, 69, of Milford, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against Matthew Faron Blair, 30, of Modesto, charging him with assaulting a security guard assigned to protect a Social Security Administration office in Fresno, Calif., United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that DHS Technologies LLC and its subsidiary, DHS Systems LLC (collectively “DHS"), have agreed to pay $1.9 million, plus interest, to the United States to resolve allegations that DHS violated the False Claims...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service (USSS), Miami Field Office, announce that Junior...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Nine more members of a cocaine, crack and marijuana distribution group have entered guilty pleas to federal conspiracy charges, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.