News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Isaiah M. Samelton, 20, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced today, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Defendant Robbed a Man, Committed Pair of Thefts, And Assaulted a Police Officer in Separate Incidents Last May.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced the latest arrest today in Operation Point Break, a long-term and previously unpublicized investigation into thieves who use stolen identities to file for and obtain fraudulent federal income tax refunds, also known as “stolen identity refund fraud" (SIRF).
By State Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), announced that on Wednesday, April 22, the Committee will convene a hearing to examine the recent nuclear framework agreement with Iran. The hearing, entitled “Nuclear Agreement with Iran: Can’t Trust, Can We Verify?" will take place at 10 a.m. in 2172 Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on March 30, 2015, Jeffrey Devoid, 53, of Winooski, Vermont, was sentenced to three additional years of federal supervised release after Devoid admitted that he had violated the conditions of his federal supervised release...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management announced today that the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture have made selections for three open positions on its nine-member National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. June Sewing of Cedar City, Utah, has been re-appointed for the category of wild horse and burro...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Topeka man has been charged in federal court in Topeka with attempting to detonate a vehicle bomb at the Fort Riley military base near Manhattan, Kan., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom, District of Kansas, and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin announced today. The defendant was arrested as part of an FBI investigation, and the device used by the defendant was, in fact, inert.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on April 10, 2015, James M. Clark, age 52, of Omaha, Nebraska was sentenced for intentional misuse of funds from an agency that received federal assistance. The Honorable Joseph F. Bataillon, Senior United States District Court Judge, sentenced Clark to a four year term of probation. Clark was also ordered to pay restitution to the Westside Community Schools District in the amount of $20,000.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: LONDON - A joint investigation between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the City of London Police, and the Motion Picture Association of America led to the arrest of a man suspected of leaking top hit movies, including The Expendables 3, on the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: AMAURY VILLA, 40, a citizen of Cuba last residing in Miami, Florida, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 98 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in the theft of pharmaceuticals from an Eli Lilly Company warehouse and storage facility in Enfield, Conn. Judge Arterton ordered the sentence to run concurrently with a 140-month sentence that VILLA is serving on a related federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A 55-year-old Lubbock man, who admitted possessing prepubescent child pornography, was sentenced today, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - After a four-day jury trial, a Colorado man was convicted by a federal jury of kidnapping and producing child pornography involving two toddlers, Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- The former financial officer of two non-profit health clinics in Alabama for the poor and homeless has agreed to plead guilty to multiple federal charges related to a scheme to defraud millions of dollars from the clinics and the federal government health agencies that provide most of their funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Seandarius Savage (21), a resident of Montgomery, Alabama, was found guilty on Wednesday of carjacking, drug trafficking, and gun offenses, announced George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that it had filed a forfeiture lawsuit against the real property at 114, 116 and 117 Park Avenue in Rutland Vermont. The suit was brought pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 881(a)(7), which provides that property which is used to commit or to facilitate the commission...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Frank Daniels, 37, of Gouverneur, New York, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Utica to 5 years in prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for distribution, receipt, and possession of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Resident Agent in Charge Russell Linstad.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - MARK A. NIXON, 62, from Freedom, Oklahoma, former Executive Vice President of The Freedom State Bank in Freedom, Oklahoma, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Stephen P. Friot for his involvement in the Bank’s failure on June 27, 2014, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Tashina Phillips, 30, of Tallahassee, was sentenced to federal prison this week by United States District Judge Mark E. Walker for theft of government property and aggravated identity theft. The sentence was announced today by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Mathew S. Antignano, 31, of Bristol, faces a minimum of 5 years and up to 30 years in federal prison when he is sentenced in June following his guilty plea in federal court in Providence today to one count each of possessing child pornography and distributing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Colonel Steven G. O’DonnellSuperintendent of the Rhode Island State Police, and Coventry Police Chief Bryan J. Volpe.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Isaiah M. Samelton, 20, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced today, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
