News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced JESUS TORRES PORTILLO, 23, of Burlington, North Carolina, to 120 months of imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release. PORTILLO previously pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Columbia, South Carolina, returned Indictment(s) against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Rafael Velasco, 36, of Madera, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to 14 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Colleen R. LaRose, aka "Jihad Jane," 50, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements and attempted identity theft. LaRose, a former resident of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 34-year-old Vidor, Texas man was sentenced today for his role in a March 2011 murder committed in as part of the SWS criminal enterprise in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Total Care Services and its owner have agreed to pay $187,500 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing Medicaid for patient services for which they had no, insufficient, or inaccurate documentation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Timothy Thomas, 51, and Mary Beth Thomas, 47, of Jackson County, Ga., have been sentenced for their respective roles in a criminal tax scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Jairus Quaintance (21, Jacksonville) to five years in federal prison for possessing a firearm while selling marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today that a Pittsburgh resident, Darnell Edge, 38, was sentenced today in connection with his role in a conspiracy to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced BRANDON JAMAL GREEN, 24,of Winterville, North Carolina, to 12 months in prison and 3 years of supervised released for making false statement to a federally licensed firearms dealer during the purchase of firearms. GREEN previously pled guilty to this charge on Sept. 15, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. today sentenced Charlie Vernon, Jr. (Tampa, 54) to 23 years in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute more than an ounce of crack cocaine and being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. He was also ordered to forfeit various firearms and ammunition, which are traceable to the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that Benjamin Lee,.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: JAN 06 (BOISE, IDAHO) - Mark A. Ciccarello, 36, of Meridian, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to count four of the indictment charging him with money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today that a Pittsburgh resident, Marcus Edge, 26, was sentenced today in connection with his role in a conspiracy to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: DEL NORTE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management San Luis Valley Field Office authorized the construction of a well pad and access to drill and develop an exploratory oil and gas well on private land approximately five miles south of Del Norte. The operator must also go through Rio Grande County’s conditional use permit process before work may begin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Today, one marijuana cultivator entered a guilty plea and one was sentenced for their involvement in separate cases resulting from Operation Mercury, a six-county eradication and enforcement effort that focused on large-scale marijuana cultivation operations on agricultural land in the Central Valley, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A fourth former bank employee has pleaded guilty to embezzling from a bank in Grant County, Kan., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chanell Y. Cole, age 30, of Owings Mills, Maryland, and Yolanda Gail Welch, age 39, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Friday, Jan. 3, 2014, to conspiracy to commit bank fraud in connection with a scheme to obtain merchandise using stolen personal identifying information of medical patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former Kansas Air National Guard senior airman who was assigned to McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita was ordered Monday to pay $54,992 in restitution and sentenced to three years federal probation for wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Christopher L. Bohlen, age 51 of Douglas, Nebraska, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha for receiving and possessing child pornography. The Honorable Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Bohlen to sixty months of imprisonment for receiving child pornography...
