News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on Aug. 13, 2015, Senior United States District Court Judge Lyle E. Strom sentenced Herman A. Fessehai, Bellevue, Washington, age 31, to a sentence of 27 months imprisonment, following his conviction for unauthorized possession of over 17,000 electronically...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Lamelle Marquez Malone, age 35, of Las Vegas, Nevada, formerly of Columbia, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to steal prescription drugs from a military hospital and to interstate transportation of stolen property.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Justin Robinson (33, Tampa) to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 21, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: A Detroit resident was convicted by a federal jury yesterday on charges of sex trafficking three minor victims using force and coercion, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge Paul D. Abbate, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court on his conviction for six counts of bank robbery, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. Furay received a sentence of 64 months imprisonment, followed by three years supervised release, and Furay was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $16,645.80, of which $4,990.00 shall be paid through forfeiture of funds recovered from Furay.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Xavier Becerra (D-CA) today issued the following statement ahead of the 80th anniversary of Social Security tomorrow...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Melissa Marangola, who is handling the case, stated that between June and August of 2013, Weeks and co-defendant Steven Jones approached an adult female while she was walking down Jay Street in Rochester. Weeks and Jones offered her drugs and drove her to a hotel in Henrietta.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: HONOLULU - United States District Judge Derrick K. Watson sentenced Serafine Magallon, 41, to 225 months imprisonment on Aug. 11, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than five hundred grams of methamphetamine. In sentencing Magallon, a San Jose, California resident, Judge Watson found that he held a leadership role in the conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: POCATELLO - D. Gregory Schvaneveldt, 40, of Preston, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Schvaneveldt was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pocatello on Nov. 25, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Ozark, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to avoid paying $585,000 he owed in federal taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Antonio Carrillo-Ortiz, 53, a native of Mexico, was charged today by indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Marion Rooks Boynton has been arraigned after being indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring with former DeKalb County Commissioner Elaine Boyer and her husband John Boyer to steal over $85,000 from DeKalb County.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Jeff Carlton Noebel, 60, of Dallas, was sentenced yesterday afternoon by U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis to four months in federal prison following his guilty plea in March 2015 to an indictment charging one count of bankruptcy fraud, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: BILLINGS - A federal judge sentenced William Jess Foust, 50, of Billings, Montana, to nine years in prison today for being a felon in possession of firearms. Federal District Court Judge Susan P. Watters also sentenced Foust to three years of supervised release. The sentence follows Foust’s March 26, 2015, guilty plea to being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A Naperville businessman who fraudulently coaxed his clients into investing millions of dollars in bogus Turkish bonds was sentenced Thursday to seven years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Two Providence men charged by way of federal criminal complaints appeared in U.S. District Court in Providence today in connection with an ongoing FBI investigation into an alleged large scale indoor marijuana growing operation inside a converted mill building at 725 Branch Avenue...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Under Secretary Lisa Mensah joined Under Secretary Kevin Concannon of the Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, community members, and residents of the Laurel Woods Apartments in Ashland, Va., to celebrate an interagency partnership against...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to receiving and attempting to distribute child pornography over the Internet. Dustin Clay Trail...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Franklin County man was taken into custody on charges of production, distribution and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward H. White, who is handling the case, stated that on Aug. 18, 2014, the defendant sold approximately 3 grams of cocaine base, a Schedule II controlled substance, to a confidential informant working with officers of the Lackawanna Police Department (LPD). The controlled...
