News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Bullitt County, Kentucky, man pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon, before Senior United States District Judge Thomas B. Russell, to two charges of producing child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday introduced the bipartisan Border Jobs for Veterans Act. The bill would require the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to cooperate to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a New Orleans man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for possessing counterfeit credit cards in order to make illegal purchases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: MIAMI - Two central Florida residents have been charged by indictment with conspiracy to import alpha-(a-PVP), a/k/a "Flakka" from China. A Broward County resident has also been charged by indictment with distributing “Flakka" within 1000 feet of a Ft. Lauderdale elementary school and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crime.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ -Starting on Oct. 1, Petrified Forest National Park will increase entrance fees for visitors in order to fund important maintenance and improvement projects within the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Jon Christopher Stoune (43, Jacksonville) has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with attempted enticement, via the Internet, of a person he believed to be a minor child for the purpose of engaging...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a Kanawha County man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Charleston to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Travis Lee Hudnall, 30, of Hansford, West Virginia entered a guilty plea to possessing a Remington 12 gauge shotgun...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Former office manager allegedly stole $250,000 from restaurant chain.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Joan Baranek, 57, of Yardley, PA, was sentenced today to two years in prison for embezzling $830,504 from her employer, between 2006 and 2012, and not reporting that income on her tax return. Baranek was a vice president for sales at Airgas Safety, Inc., a subsidiary of Airgas, Inc., based in Levittown, Pennsylvania. She pleaded guilty on October 8, 2014 to mail fraud and filing a false income tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Antonio Garcia-Villa (Garcia), 46, and Uriel Silva-Garcia (Silva), both Mexican nationals, charging them with conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute, manufacturing, and possessing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Christopher A. Henry, Special Agent in Charge of the IRS-Criminal Investigation Nashville Field Office announced today that United States District Judge Kristine G. Baker sentenced former Little Rock...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., Western District of New York, announced today that a federal grand jury has returned two separate indictments charging 10 individuals with narcotics trafficking in the cities of Buffalo, NY and Dunkirk, NY.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TERRENCE PENDERGRASS, a former correction officer and captain, was sentenced today in federal court to five years in prison for deliberately ignoring the urgent medical needs of a Rikers Island inmate who...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Charvester Anthony guilty of five counts of receiving stolen government property. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison on each count. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Sept. 18, 2015. Anthony was indicted on Feb. 13, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Jeremy Charles Hubbard, 36, of Casper, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on June 18, 2015, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Hubbard was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received 12 months and one day imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, and Gerald Roy, Special Agent in Charge, United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, Office of Investigations for Region 7 (Kansas City office) today announced indictments and arrests...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Patrick Watuema, 55, an enrolled member of the Pima Salt River Tribe in Ariz., pleaded guilty this morning to a felony information charging him with aggravated sexual abuse. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Watuema will be sentenced to ten years in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. Watuema also will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, announced today that H&R Enterprises, LLC has agreed to pay $6,500 in civil penalties to settle allegations of violating the Buy American Act (BAA) and submitting false claims to the United States, in violation of the False Claims Act.
