News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge John E. Steele today sentenced Sean F. Desa (29, Naples) to 10 years in federal prison for receiving and distributing child pornography. The Court also ordered him to serve a life term of supervision and to register as a sex offender following his release from prison. He pleaded guilty on Sept. 14, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: Jeff Scott, the NPS Program Lead for Fire Planning and Budget, retired Nov. 30, 2015 after 27 years of federal service. Jeff was the lead for NPS wildland fire and aviation planning and budget programs since 2008. Before coming to work with the NPS, Jeff worked as a Professional Forester and Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former deputy U.S. marshal was sentenced today to 15 months in federal prison after being convicted of obstruction of justice - a charge stemming from lies he told to police after he fatally shot a man.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - A Santa Barbara-area physician who wrote numerous prescriptions for powerful painkillers for “patients" - many of whom were drug addicts, and some of whom died from drug overdoses - was sentenced today to 327 months in federal prison by United States District Judge Cormac J. Carney.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 28-year-old residence of Corpus Christi had been ordered to federal prison following his convictions of possessing with the intent to distribute a synthetic cannabinoid and for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Abel Martinez pleaded guilty Sept. 15, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: A former police officer was convicted of illegally selling firearms to people he knew were felons, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney Anthony P. Giorno announced today that Timothy Gerace was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon after having previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. Gerace was the final defendant to be sentenced in the multi-jurisdictional investigation of methamphetamine distribution, “Operation Saltvegas.".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Gevorg Meroyan, 35, of Los Angeles, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill to two years in prison for conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit credit cards and credit card fraud, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), together with Michael Puralewski, Resident Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) Clyde Lemons, attended the 2015 Pacific Region OCDETF Advisory Council Meeting on Dec. 3, 2015, in San Francisco, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - The founder and co-owner of a Rancho Cucamonga business was sentenced today to 18 years in federal prison for orchestrating a scheme that offered bogus loan modification programs to thousands of financially distressed homeowners who lost more than $7 million when they paid for services that were never provided.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-Roy James Hudson, 29, of Mayes County, Okla., was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Claire V. Eagan to 15 years in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the conviction of JOHN HUNTER, SR., 46, for conspiracy to defraud the United States, false claims and aggravated identity theft. A jury returned a guilty verdict after a four-day trial before Senior U.S. District Judge David S. Doty. A sentencing date has not been set.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced a bill Monday to enhance the security of the current Visa Waiver Program. The chairman said this about the bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Winfield man was sentenced Monday to six years in federal prison for distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL, age 38, of Leon, Oklahoma, pled guilty to DISTRIBUTION OF METHAMPHETAMINE, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A former Secret Service special agent who had been a member of the Baltimore Silk Road Task Force was sentenced to prison on charges of money laundering and obstruction of justice announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch, Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez on December 4, 2015 sentenced Kisean Anthony Testamark, 44, also known as Sean Anthony Penn, of Coki Point, St. Thomas, to 45 days in prison and five years of supervised release for possession and transportation of a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Gomez also ordered Penn to perform 200 hours of community service.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: Washington - Today, USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced improvements to strengthen the USDA Process Verified Program (PVP). For almost 20 years, AMS has administered the PVP to help agricultural suppliers differentiate their products in an increasingly competitive marketplace. The changes announced today build on that strong tradition by providing the public with even greater transparency and confidence in the “USDA Process Verified" shield.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - JUSTIN PAYNE was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for possession of an unregistered destructive device and an additional 12 months for destroying the St. Louis County Police Association website through a distributed denial of service attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad announced today that Milwaukee resident Grover Ferguson (age:18) was sentenced to 50 years of imprisonment, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release, for committing a carjacking on April 21, 2015, during which he shot the vehicle’s owner.
