News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Gerald Allen Williams, 55, of Roscoe, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 33 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $410,094.98 in restitution, following his guilty plea in April 2015 to one count of wire fraud stemming from a fraudulent invoicing scheme he ran while working at Chevron Pipe Line Company. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Marden Gonzalez, age 20, of Hyattsville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to carjacking and to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - A Nigerian citizen arrested in Indiana, one of twenty-one defendants indicted in a nine-count federal indictment filed in the Southern District of Mississippi, was sentenced on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015, for his role in a conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: An East Cleveland businessman was charged for attempting to bribe a councilman in that city in exchange for support in getting a liquor license, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Cleveland Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Stockton resident John Steven Keplinger, 56, was charged today with five counts of mail fraud in connection with an auto parts scam, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Samuel Scott Butler, 24, of Saint Marys, West Virginia, was convicted in federal court today for his role in manufacturing methamphetamine, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two men who were residing in Laredo have been ordered to federal prison for possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Special Agent in Charge James Spero of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI -Shawki Thomas, 25, was arrested today and charged by criminal complaint with Possession of a Firearm with an Obliterated Serial Number and Unlawful Mailing of a Firearm, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. After his arrest, Thomas made his initial appearance in District Court before U.S. Magistrate Judge George W. Cannon. Judge Cannon ordered Thomas to remain in custody pending a detention hearing Friday.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Jose Angel Zapata, 24, of San Angelo, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 168 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in April 2015 to two counts of enticement of a minor and aiding and abetting, announced U.S. Attorney John R. Parker of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Daniel Reyes Hurtado, 37, of St Thomas, to 51 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release for possessing child pornography, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Gomez also ordered Hurtado to register as a sex offender and pay a special assessment of $100.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) responded to the loss of the three firefighters who lost their lives fighting the Twisp River fire in Washington State this week: Tom Zbyszewski, 20, Andrew Zajac, 26, and Richard Wheeler, 31. This follows the deaths of David Ruhl, 38, and Michael Hallenback, 21, who died fighting two different California wildfires earlier this summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: Broward man charged in federal court for using a means of interstate commerce to attempt to entice a mother and her minor daughters to engage in incest.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: Six high school students from McCreary County recently finished the summer working on a Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) team at the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The last man involved in a massive marijuana distribution organization has been sentenced to federal prison, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Ricardo Jason Villeza, 41, is the last of eight defendants sentenced for their respective roles in the conspiracy. All men had previously entered guilty pleas in the case.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - This week, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement officers made several separate arrests leading to the seizure of methamphetamine, heroin, marijuana, cocaine, psilocybin mushrooms, cash, firearms, and stolen vehicles, in northern Idaho. Three of those arrested, Blair Ty Murphy, 40...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Andre Ruffin, a former resident of Munhall, Pa., was sentenced yesterday to 300 months (25 years) in prison and five years of post-release supervision, by Senior U.S. District Judge Terrence F. McVerry, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. Ruffin was convicted of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition by a federal jury on March 4, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: MIAMI - Four Tampa residents plead guilty to their involvement in a conspiracy to import a synthetic cannabinoid, XLR-11, a/k/a “Spice," and paraphernalia to the United (U.S.) from China, before U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge Frank J. Lynch, Jr., in Ft. Pierce, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA -United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that United States District Judge Shelly Dick sentenced JOCK R. JONES, 38, formerly of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for carjacking an East Baton Rouge Parish School System school bus driver, using a firearm in furtherance of the carjacking, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DEBORAH FORTNER, age 53, of New Orleans, entered a plea of guilty yesterday to one count of submitting false documents to the Road Home Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A 44-old Spring resident has been charged by criminal complaint on allegations he received and possessed images of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
