News from January 2014
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: LONDON - A United Kingdom citizen was convicted and sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for sexually abusing children to produce child pornography, following a joint investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Dorset Police, and the National Crime Agency’s (NCA) Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Command.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: LAREDO,Texas - Robert Jacaman Sr., 60, owner of Jacaman Guns and Ammo, has entered a plea of guilty to conspiring to smuggle firearm ammunition and magazines to Mexico, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jacaman, now a convicted felon, surrendered his federal firearms license, is no longer a firearms dealer and is prohibited from possessing firearms, ammunition and destructive devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Adam Goodwin, 39, of Scarborough, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Singal to nine years in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and health care fraud. Goodwin pled guilty to the charges on July 29, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, a Russian national also known as “Gribodemon" and “Harderman," has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud for his role as the primary developer and distributor of the malicious software known as “SpyEye," which, according to industry estimates, has infected over 1.4 million computers in the United States and abroad.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell yesterday sentenced Werawat Isaraphanich (38, Bronx, New York) to 5 years in federal prison for access device fraud. Isaraphanich was also ordered to serve a 3-year term of supervised release following his incarceration, and to pay more...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WINSTON SHILLINGFORD, 56, and his wife, MARLEEN SHILLINGFORD, 47, of Nesconset, N.Y., were sentenced...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in a 1.3 mile, 2-hour interpretive hike at Moccasin Bend National Archeological District on Saturday, February 8, 2014, beginning at 1:30 p.m. Participants should take Moccasin Bend Road toward the Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute and follow the Special Event signs directing you to the parking area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Rahil Akhtar, 37, of Eagle, Idaho, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court for acquiring and obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud and deception. Akhtar was a dentist licensed to practice in the state of Idaho. He was sentenced to three years' probation, 300 hours...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that NILDA BERMUDEZ, 54, of Hartford, was sentenced last week in Hartford federal court for illegally...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUAN JOSE ALVAREZ DE LUGO AZPURUA, 54, of Branford, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Dwayne Dunlavy, 40, of Ravenna, Ohio, pleaded guilty Thursday before U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that four defendants were sentenced this week in federal court for their roles in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking ring. Twenty defendants were charged in an 89-count indictment filed in May 2013. Ten defendants have been sentenced in the case; eight others have pleaded guilty to the same or related charges and are awaiting sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Pavel Zborovskiy, 57, of Brooklyn, NY, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to pay and receive illegal health care kickbacks in connection with a $13 million health care fraud and money laundering scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Marquis Harrington, age 44 of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced for his conviction for mail fraud and making false statements to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. United States District Court Judge John Gerrard sentenced Harrington to 2 months of imprisonment to be followed by 6 months of home confinement during a three year term of supervised release. Harrington was further ordered to pay $22,708.00 in restitution to H.U.D.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Norman Stan Chee, 21, a member of the Mescalero Apache Nation, pleaded guilty this afternoon to a statutory rape charge in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M. Chee entered his guilty plea without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Former Austin Police Officer Jermaine Gaspard, age 34, faces up to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty this afternoon to making a false statement to federal authorities announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, U.S. Secret Service Acting Special Agent In Charge Ben Bass, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent In Charge John Boles, San Antonio Division, and Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area is pleased to announce the partnership with the McCreary County, Kentucky, Tourism Commission and the U.S. Forest Service in the area's first Wildflower Discovery Weekend on Friday, May 2, and Saturday, May 3. The event will include a series of natural...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Julio Cesar Almeida, 40, a Mexican National residing in Weslaco, has been ordered to prison for 210 months as a result of his convictions of possession with the intent to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine and money laundering, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A partner in Source Institute for Human Performance, a Princeton, N.J., provider of exercise coaching services to independent high schools, pleaded guilty today to defrauding insurance companies by falsely claiming that Source gave clients physical therapy, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Dealers busted with two pounds of pure meth and more than $40,000 cash.
