News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned an indictment late Wednesday afternoon charging Kolar Rahman Anees Ur Rahman, age 44, who was born in India and lives in the United Arab Emirates, with violations of federal law in connection with alleged efforts to purchase 89 Sako.308 caliber sniper rifles and have them exported from the United States to Belarus.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jose Marcos Armendariz, 31, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 48 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Thomas G. Atteberry, ATF Phoenix Field Division, and Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy, DEA El Paso Division announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a three-count indictment charging Albuquerque resident Davon Lymon, 34, with violating the narcotics trafficking and firearms laws. An arraignment hearing on the indictment has yet to be scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Nelson Watts Broadie, Jr., 21, of Henrico County, was convicted by a federal jury yesterday of six separate offenses, including possession of a firearm and ammunition by a previously convicted felon, possession and distribution of crack cocaine, and possession and brandishing of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Tonya M. Reid, age 38, of Anderson, was sentenced today in federal court in Anderson, for conspiracy to commit fraud, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371. United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain of Anderson sentenced Reid to 60 months imprisonment, ordered that she pay $21,272.97 in restitution, and placed her on three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - -Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and John J. Hoffman, Acting Attorney General for the State of New Jersey announced that the State Board of Medical Examiners has temporarily suspended the medical license of Dr. Eric Thomas, effective December 4.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Troy A. Clanton, Jr., 24, of Petersburg, was sentenced today to 147 months in prison for the robbery of the Bank of Southside Virginia (BSV) located in Stony Creek. Clanton was ordered by the Court to pay $20,278.29 to the victims of the crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith, and FBI Special Agent in Charge, Harold H. Shaw, announced today that General Linen Services, LLC of Somersworth, New Hampshire, formerly known as General Linen Service Co., Inc. (General Linen Somersworth) pled guilty to violating computer...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Baldwin Borough, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 90 months imprisonment and three years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner is pleased to be in attendance at a summit today hosted by the White House and the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. called “A Cycle of Incarceration: Prison, Debt and Bail Practices." This event was designed to bring public attention...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Richard Lobato, 51, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 60 months for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Lobato to serve four years of supervised release following his prison term. Lobato was indicted by a federal grand jury on Oct. 15, 2014, and entered a guilty plea on Sept. 1, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: EL VADO, N.M. - The highway over El Vado Dam will be closed to traffic during daytime hours for up to 18 days in December.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Wife and Husband Fraudulently Obtained Over $30 Million in Government Service Contracts Using False Representations, Embezzled Over $1.6 Million from Employee Benefits Plans and Evaded Payment of $492,961 in Taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Shreveport man was sentenced to 105 months in prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition after being convicted of a felony.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Patchogue, NY - Fire Island National Seashore Superintendent Chris Soller announced today that beach closure due to construction on the second phase of the Fire Island to Moriches Inlet (FIMI) Stabilization Project will require off-road driving permit holders to use the interior route east of the Fire Island Lighthouse.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Following House passage yesterday by a vote of 359-64, the Every Student Succeeds Act is ready for Senate action next week
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: BROOKFIELD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Cheryl Karcher, M.D., 57, of Brookfield, Conn., and New York, N.Y., has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the government in which she will pay $150,000 to resolve allegations that she violated civil provisions of the Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-The owner of two Arkansas mental health companies that provide inpatient and outpatient mental health services to juveniles was indicted yesterday for engaging in a scheme to bribe a former deputy director of the Arkansas Department of Human Services (ADHS), announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - -Patricia Jane Albright, 64, of Nevada City, was sentenced by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to five years and five months in prison for conspiring to manufacture marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, and structuring currency transactions to evade federal reporting requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Robert James Gibson, 25, of Roxobel, North Carolina, was sentenced today to 72 months in prison for possession of stolen firearms. Gibson was ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution for the cost of the stolen firearms and the damage done to AWH Arms during the course of the burglary.
