News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Earlier today, a five-count indictment was returned by a federal grand jury sitting in Brooklyn, New York, charging Oswald Lewis, also known as “Alexander Louis," “Junior," “Andrew Jackson," “Andre Bernard Jackson," “John Green," “Leslie Howard" and “Dre," with assault on a federal officer by use of...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Gopaul Noojibail, a 15-year veteran of federal service, has been promoted to Superintendent of several national parks in Washington, D.C., administered as National Capital Parks East. In this role, Noojibail is responsible for the management and direction of vast urban green spaces, beloved...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Nixa, Mo., contractor who was hired to repair tornado damage at the Joplin residence of an elderly couple was sentenced in federal court today for a fraud scheme in which he stole more than $73,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - A federal grand jury has indicted 19 people for stealing government money, credit card fraud, and aggravated identity theft, based on their involvement in an extensive scheme to steal and cash United States Treasury checks and use fraudulently obtained credit cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza sentenced Louie Anthony Salemi (33, Orlando) yesterday to 19 years and seven months in federal prison for distribution of child pornography, to be followed by a consecutive term of four years and 10 months’ imprisonment for possession of child pornography. He was also sentenced to a lifetime of supervision. Salemi pleaded guilty on May 2, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Anthony Barela, 56, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Barela will be sentenced to 15 years in federal prison due to his status as an armed career criminal.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Sept. 18, 2014, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 30 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Today DEA and ATF agents and officers of the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD), executed the arrest warrants.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: LITTLE ROCK, AR - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that United States District Judge Brian S. Miller sentenced Susan Elaine Boyce, 60, formerly of Pleasant Plains, Arkansas, to four years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release. Judge Miller also ordered Boyce to pay $175,099.24 in restitution to the Searcy Special School District.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Joseph C. Waters, Jr., 61, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty today to using his judicial position to influence the outcome of two cases in the Philadelphia Municipal Court, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Waters, a former Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge, pleaded guilty to an information charging mail fraud and honest services wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CHRISTOPHER BRYAN COLEMAN, 25, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Shaun Tucker, a/k/a “Shawn Turner," and his wife, Joanne Tucker, a/k/a “Joanne Krcma," “Jill Swanson," and “Jocelyn Turner," both age 49, of Keymar, Maryland, for embezzling from employee benefit plans and for tax evasion. The indictment was returned on Sept. 16, 2014 and unsealed yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today the convictions of the leader of a violent drug trafficking organization and two of his lieutenants following a multi-week jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Michael Bagri, 54, a citizen of Canada, who was convicted conspiracy to export five kilograms or more of cocaine from the United States into Canada, was sentenced to 70 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: DES MOINES, IA B United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt announced that a grand jury sitting in the Southern District of Iowa returned an indictment charging Neil Stammer of Albuquerque, New Mexico, with passport fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1542 and aggravated identity theft in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: COLUMBIA, S.C. - On Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, U.S. District Judge Margaret B. Seymour sentenced Joenathan Shelly Chaplin, an attorney in Columbia, S.C. to three years of probation for making a false statement to a federal agent, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenneth Polite and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ronald A. Cimino of the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced today that YONI PERDOMO, 35, was sentenced to 38 months in prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States by filing false income tax returns and for aggravated...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce the filing of a one-count information charging William E. Pino, 60, of Miami, with offering and agreeing to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Virginia Covington yesterday sentenced Lakeland residents Jovanna Deshawn Forte (39) and William Boyd Burns (45) each to 51 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Both pleaded guilty in May 2014. The Court also entered a money judgment...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Austin Santee, 22, of Shippensburg, Pa., was sentenced today to 14 months in prison for possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Andrew G. McCabe, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -A grand jury indicted former Bossier Parish Sheriff Larry Deen and two owners of Blakey Auto Plex, LLC, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today.
