News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 37-year-old Hazleton man pleaded guilty on March 31, 2015, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik in Scranton, to participating in a heroin and cocaine trafficking conspiracy during 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ALVARO D. CAMPOS, age 39, a citizen of Guatemala, was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - Otoniel Galindo Vasquez-Lopez, 29, of Bossier, La., was sentenced on March 30, 2015 by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 14.5 years in custody and three years of supervised release for his role as the leader of an Arizona based alien smuggling organization after previously pleading guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Thomas Herring, 39, of Lackawanna, NY, who was convicted of obstruction of justice, was sentenced to two years in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - With West Virginia leading the nation in drug overdose deaths, community leaders remain dedicated to providing impactful, effective drug education for local students. Next week, former National Basketball Association standout Chris Herren will return to the Ohio Valley for the third time to share the powerful story of his struggle with addiction.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - A Guatemalan national was sentenced Monday to 14 ½ years in federal prison for running an Arizona-based human smuggling organization responsible for the deaths of at least three individuals, including two persons who died in a vehicle rollover on Highway 40 three years ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Edward James Maycock, Jr., age 28, of Parsonsburg, Maryland, today to 16 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for distribution of child pornography. Judge Russell ordered that upon his release from prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - David Wendell Pilcher, 50, of Granite Falls, N.C., pled guilty today to production and possession of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Vincent H. Cohen, 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 Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, CALIFORNIA-The Environmental Protection Agency's notice of availability for the Wilderness Stewardship Plan / Final Environmental Impact Statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Wakefield veteran was sentenced yesterday for fraudulently receiving $174,000 in benefits paid to him based upon falsified Vietnam War service records.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ESMIN ESPINOZA-ERAZO, age 25, a citizen of Honduras who resides in Hammond, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment for illegal use of a Social Security Number (“SSN").
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: All Defendants Were Arrested. SAN JUAN, P.R. - On March 25, a Federal grand jury returned a twenty-three count indictment charging eleven individuals for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - A fourth member of an international computer hacking ring has pleaded guilty to conspiring to break into computer networks of prominent technology companies to steal more than $100 million in intellectual property and other proprietary data.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that a Final Judgment on the Pleadings was granted in favor of defendants Dennis Jacobs, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officer, and seven "John Doe" and "Jane Doe" CBP officers...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: Murder Weapon Illegally Purchased in Violation of Protection Order.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Massachusetts cardiologist and his practice entered into an agreement with the United States yesterday to resolve allegations that they improperly billed Medicare for medically unnecessary stress tests.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, criticized the Obama administration’s lack of consultation with Alaska in developing its draft 2017-2022 outer continental shelf (OCS) oil and natural gas leasing program (DPP) for Alaska in comments to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that ROBERT JAMES KOHNE, age 24, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 4 years of probation for Obtaining Possession of a Controlled Substance by Deception, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 843(a)(3).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: VANCOUVER, WA -Today, Superintendent Tracy Fortmann announced that Fort Vancouver National Historic Site has been designated as an official Center of Refuge (CoR) for a Zombie Apocalypse (ZA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that seven Springfield, Mo., residents are among 13 defendants who have been indicted for their roles in a conspiracy to receive more than $340,000 in fraudulent income tax refunds.
