News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Floyd Long was sentenced today to 19 ½ years in prison and his cousin, Alonzo Ferrell, was sentenced to a 15-year prison term for carrying out a series of four armed robberies in Northwest and Northeast Washington on Christmas Eve and Christmas of 2012, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that JAMES R. HOLDMAN, age 59, of Zachary, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday before U.S. District Judge James J. Brady to sixty (60) months imprisonment as a result of a mail fraud scheme in which he defrauded investors out of millions...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: A former accountant of adult entertainment businesses pled guilty for his participation in a tax fraud conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Devils Tower National Monument will offer free entrance Saturday, February 14 through Monday, February 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Alexis Hidalgo and Jonathan DaSilva, the respective leaders of two Boston street gangs -- the Hendry Street Gang and the Woodward Avenue Gang -- pleaded guilty today to drug trafficking and firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 35-year-old Plano, Texas man has been found guilty of federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, this week introduced legislation that would allow limited oil and natural gas activity within the non-wilderness coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: CLEVELAND, Ohio - On February 13th, 2015, an Akron physician was sentenced to 10 years in prison for illegally prescribing hundreds of thousands of doses of painkillers and other pills to customers for no legitimate medical purpose. These illegal prescribing patterns occurred even after at least eight...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Miguel Guevara, Irvin Mejia Cruz, and Walter Aldana - members of the street gang known as Mara Salvatrucha 13, or MS-13 - have been sentenced for violent crimes they committed, including the murder of one man and the shootings of two others, one of whom was a 14-year-old boy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Christopher Wayne Howard, 26, of Joshua, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 27 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in October 2014 to one count of transferring obscene material to a minor, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Antonio Whiteside, 26, St. Louis County was indicted in connection with the attempted arson of the Ferguson Supermarket, Inc. on Nov. 24, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Luis Velez, age 52, of Lincoln, Nebraska, to 156 months imprisonment, to be followed by a 5 year term of supervised release following his earlier guilty plea to possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Hillview, Kentucky Police Chief Glenn A. Caple was convicted today of making a false statement to federal agents when questioned about his knowledge and involvement in moving evidence found on an elected official’s property on January 4, 2012, announced Acting United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Senior District Court Jude Raymond L. Finch today sentenced Jahmall Augustine, 20, to 57 months in prison for his felon in possession of a firearm conviction, and 12 months for possession of prison contraband, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent-in-Charge Vito S. Guarino.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal court jury on Thursday convicted Ernest Kar, 34, of Providence, with participating in a counterfeit check scheme that defrauded local banks of at least $800,000, announced by United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha; Ted A. Arruda, Resident Agent in Charge of the Providence...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After a 21-day trial, a federal jury found Nadia Kuzmenko, 35, resident of Loomis, Peter Kuzmenko, 36, resident of Sacramento, Edward Shevtsov, 51, resident of Sacramento, and Aaron New, 39, resident of Sacramento, guilty of multiple counts of mail and wire fraud associated with their involvement in a mortgage fraud scheme that cost financial institutions approximately $16 million, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Feb. 13, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. A Jefferson County man was sentenced today to federal prison on methamphetamine charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Defendant Lured Victim From Queens To Long Island And Then Shot Him, Believing Victim Was Cooperating With Law Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Gerald C. Bryce, age 50 of Raymond, Nebraska, to 18 months imprisonment, to be followed by a 3 year term of supervised release following his earlier guilty plea to mail fraud.
