News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, Senior U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner sentenced John Charles Saubert, 47, to 18 months in federal prison for forcibly resisting federal officers. Saubert will be on three years of supervised release after he completes his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Joseph Giovanni Santiago, 50, of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced today to 78 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release for engaging in a life insurance scheme involving nearly 1,000 individuals across the country. Santiago was also ordered to pay $1,313,749.07 in restitution to two separate insurance companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Kency Aime (29, Biscayne Bay) with one count of access device (credit card) fraud and nine counts of identity theft. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for the fraud count, and up to 5 years in prison for each identity theft count.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement in response to the news that Marilyn Tavenner, the Administrator of CMS, plans to step down next month...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Falsified Home Buyers’ Information to Generate Fraudulent Loan Applicationsin Order to Collect Commissions, Origination and Broker’s Fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, Christopher Shaun Kanatzar, 28, a resident of Springfield, Oregon, appeared before U. S. District Court Chief Judge Ann Aiken and pled guilty to felon in possession of a firearm. Kanatzar admitted possessing a loaded 9 mm caliber pistol and faces a ten-year maximum prison term and three years of post-prison supervision.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Kency Aime (29, Biscayne Bay) with one count of access device (credit card) fraud and nine counts of identity theft. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for the fraud count, and up to 5 years in prison for each identity theft count.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio filed 167 firearms indictments last year, U.S. Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Nicholas Quinton Hanson (23, Lakeland) to five years and ten months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 1, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Point Reyes National Seashore will begin an experimental vegetation treatment project through the use of goat grazing within Historic D Ranch. This project will begin the week of January 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced a criminal complaint charging ROBERT JAMES SCHUELLER, 29, in a murder-for-hire plot targeting the fiancé of his former paramour. SCHUELLER is charged with the use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1958(a).1 The defendant appeared this afternoon before Magistrate Judge Tony Leung in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Webster Parish woman pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Kewarren Lamar Jones (44, Sarasota) to 20 years and 5 months in federal prison for distributing 28 grams or more of crack cocaine and a related violation of his federal supervised release. As part of his sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $7,500, the proceeds of his criminal conduct. Jones pleaded guilty on October 9, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Anderson was arraigned today and Scott Steever was arraigned yesterday on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering and money laundering, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Kewarren Lamar (44, Sarasota) to 20 years and 5 months in federal prison for distributing 28 grams or more of crack cocaine and a related violation of his federal supervised release. As part of his sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $7,500, the proceeds of his criminal conduct. Jones pleaded guilty on October 9, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Comment Period for Compendiums. National Park Service compendiums for Alaska will be open for a 30-day public comment period, beginning Jan. 15, 2015 and concluding Feb. 15, 2015. A compendium - one for each NPS area in Alaska - is a compilation of all designations, closures and restrictions adopted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Augusta, GA: Jacky Ray Burley, 51, of Warrenton, Georgia, was sentenced yesterday before United States District Court Judge J. Randal Hall to 235 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a multi-convicted felon. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Isidro Alcazar-Tapia, 25, and Arturo Alcazar-Tapia, 21, both of Eureka, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to manufacture marijuana and depredation of public lands and resources, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Pocatello - RaeLeigh Day, 42, of Burley, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to three years of probation for bankruptcy fraud, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Day pleaded guilty to the charge on Oct. 29, 2014.
