News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of New Florence, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 12 months in prison, 100 hours community service and three years supervised release, on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: A Jacksonville, Florida man, pleaded guilty today to extortion and possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Barbara McQuade announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Nicholas Stanishia, age 44, an Ohio prison inmate, Marcia J. Weber, age 46, of Loveland, Ohio, Martin Jay Wilson, age 43, of Kansas City, Missouri, Jody Six, age 40, and Anthony Vaughn, age 41, both Ohio inmates were indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg and charged with an interstate conspiracy to transmit threats to a witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: MILWAUKEE - ―The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today the arrest of 26 individuals on both state and federal charges related to the illegal distribution of pharmaceutical controlled substances in the Milwaukee metropolitan area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.VA. - The former Mayor of Williamson, A. Darrin McCormick, was sentenced to three years of probation and a fine of $5,000 for making a materially false statement to the FBI in February 2013. McCormick lied to federal agents in the course of an investigation of suspicious banking activity by Aracoma Contracting, LLC.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RAMON FRIAS-LOPEZ, age 30, a Mexican citizen who was illegally in the United States, was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Baltazar Lopez-Zamudio, a/k/a “Baltazar Lopez," a/k/a “Jorge Sanchez-Rodriguez," 28, of Kennett Square, PA, was charged today by indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about Sept. 17, 2014, Lopez-Zamudio, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about March 5, 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - SCOTT J. BORNT, 53, and his wife GERI MONDLIN-BORNT, 50, formerly of Gloversville, New York, each pled guilty yesterday in Albany to one count of social security fraud before Senior United States District Court Judge Thomas J. McAvoy announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Alexander Burke, 58, of Bristol, England, and formerly of Upper Montclair, New Jersey, was charged today by Indictment with conspiring to commit wire fraud and money laundering, and with substantive wire fraud and money laundering violations, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher D. Poole received the National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys Exceptional Service Award for his work with the Chattanooga Violence Reduction Act. U.S. Attorney William C. Killian presented the award plaque, on behalf of the National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys (NAFUSA), to Poole at an office ceremony on Oct. 15, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - United States Attorney George L. Beck, Jr., joined with members of the Middle District of Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force, which was formerly known as the “Central Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force," on today. The Middle District of Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force (hereinafter...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
Release: Adam Branson, Senior Attaché, Office of Agricultural Affairs, Mumbai, India.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Alvin L. Ewing, II, 50, of Fairfield, Illinois, has been charged in United States District Court in Benton with being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Stephen R. Wigginton...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A licensed psychiatrist, who submitted claims for services rendered to nursing home residents in San Angelo, Texas, and other communities in the counties surrounding Tom Green County, Texas, is in federal custody on charges that he defrauded Medicare and Medicaid of nearly $1.75 million, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON-Akba Jihad Jordan, 22 years old, of Raleigh, North Carolina, pled guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Robert B. Jones to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2339A. Jordan and co-defendant Avin Marsalis Brown, 21...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: Denali National Park and Preserve is an environment of extreme temperatures, tall.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Third Degree Burglary and Larceny.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell yesterday found Fortune Tyrone Hill (33, Daytona Beach) guilty of possessing with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base, commonly known as “crack" cocaine. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 5 years, up to a maximum of 40 years in federal prison. Hill was indicted on July 30, 2014, and a sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 12, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - Darnez Turner, 26, of Detroit, Michigan was sentenced in federal court in Charleston today to six months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Turner previously pled guilty in July of this year, admitting that...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Franklin Lopez, 34, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of stealing thousands of dollars from the City of Buffalo, a Governmental agency which receives federal funding, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was also ordered to pay $69,000 in restitution.
