News from April 2015
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: PUEBLA, Mexico - U.S., Colombian, Salvadoran and Mexican federal judges participated in a three-day judicial conference that ended Thursday. The conference focused on the role judges play in criminal court cases tied to money laundering and asset forfeiture cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced today that six Milwaukee men who were identified as being members of the “Open Door" robbery crew have been sentenced in federal court. Daunte Nichols (age: 21) was convicted of two counts of armed robbery affecting interstate commerce pursuant to the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A Guatemalan national appeared in federal court in McAllen after being extradited to the United States from Guatemala to face criminal charges for her role in smuggling undocumented migrants to the United States for profit, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Director Sarah R. Saldaña of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Texarkana, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Jonathan Taylor, aka “N.O.", age 30, of Violet, Louisiana, was sentenced today to 108 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Texarkana.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A law school graduate who operated a non-profit business has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for conspiring to launder drug money, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Lawnside, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for illegally possessing firearms and selling 22 guns without a license.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPPI -A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 215,256 visitors to Natchez National Historical Park in 2014 spent $12.072 million in the local community. That spending supported 190 jobs in the area.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Springdale, Cedar City, Bryce Canyon City, Utah and Fredonia, Arizona -A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that visitors to Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Cedar Breaks National Monument and Pipe Spring National Monument in 2014 spent $340 Million in communities near the parks. That spending supported 4,983 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $433.8 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Abilene, Texas - Following a three-day trial before U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis, in federal court in Abilene, Texas, a jury has convicted Ernest Martenez Melendez, 63, of Sweetwater, Texas, on an indictment charging one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ALEX SAAVEDRA (“SAAVEDRA"), the former director of two Structured Employment Economic Development Corporation (“SEEDCO") Workforce1 Career Centers, was found liable for violating the False Claims Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - An Egyptian citizen was arrested Thursday evening for his alleged role in defrauding a U.S. foreign aid program, which resulted in the distribution of defective water pumps by a Collierville establishment to the Egyptian Water Authority. The illegal acts accounted for more than $500,000 in fraudulent sales.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Henry Shuler, 65, of Houston, has admitted to stealing from United Transportation Union (UTU), Local 1982, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Shuler was the secretary/treasurer of UTU.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2014 shows that over 2.8 million visitors to Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Wright Brothers National Memorial spent more than $170 million in communities in and around the parks.This spending supported approximately 2,683 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of more than $212 million dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Laura A. Minot, 52, of Mattapan, Massachusetts pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit access device fraud in connection with her participation in a fraudulent credit card scheme, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Belpre, Ohio man is the latest member of a large-scale marijuana trafficking organization to plead guilty in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Brent J. Sidwell, 33, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston to his role in a conspiracy to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Felix Trujillo, 52, of Kirtland, N.M., was sentenced late yesterday afternoon in Albuquerque, N.M., to 108 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Martese O. Temple, Sr., 48, of Belleville, Illinois, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he unlawfully obtained disability benefits from the United States Postal Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: On Feb. 3, 2015, David T. Walls, Jr., a/k/a "Gun," 36, of Chicago, Ill., was charged by indictment with conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and heroin, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A North Adams woman pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Springfield on Wednesday, April 22, 2015, to fraudulently concealing her marriage from the Social Security Administration to secure unauthorized Social Security payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Willard Phillip Maldonado entered guilty pleas to six criminal charges relating to the commercialization of eagles. Five of the charges are violations of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act...
