News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: North Texas Defendants Owned and Operated Home Health Companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an 11-count indictment today against Epati Malauulu, 40, of Suisun City; John Ortiz, 43, of Vallejo; Algernon Tamasoa, 26, of Sacramento; and Francisco Poloai, 43, of Dixon, charging them with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, attempted distribution...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $70,000 civil penalty against Home Depot of Atlanta for allegedly violating Hazardous Materials Regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: A grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging a Mansfield man with crimes related to the purchase and sale of counterfeit prescription drugs, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced today a nationwide takedown by Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in 17 districts, resulting in charges against 243 individuals, including 46 doctors, nurses and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Today, the Justice Department announced that a grand jury in the Southern District of Florida charged Miami Dade Police Department (MDPD) Detective William Kostopoulos, 47, with using his law enforcement authority to violate motorists’ civil rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - The owners of a store in Kansas City, Kan., have pleaded guilty to defrauding a federal food stamp program, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. The fraud totaled more than $227,000.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: MOOSE, WY -The Blacktail Butte parking area on Highway 89 north of Moose Junction will be closed intermittently from June 19 through July 31, 2015. Closures are necessary to resurface the roadway and parking area, repave the adjacent sidewalk, and complete construction of a shared-use pathway connection to the parking area. The nearby trails on Blacktail Butte and the "Practice Rocks" climbing area will remain open for use.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LEON FENNER pled guilty yesterday to the armed robbery of a store in the Diamond District of Manhattan on Nov. 11, 2014. FENNER pled guilty before United States District Judge William H. Pauley III.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ruben Estrada, 54, of Las Vegas N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 92 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on conspiracy and cocaine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal, state and local authorities this morning arrested 15 defendants named in a federal racketeering indictment that describes the development and implementation of a coalition of three criminal street gangs in the Northeast Los Angeles area that were brought together under a truce ordered by a Mexican Mafia member for the purpose of controlling criminal activity in the neighborhoods where the trio of gangs operated
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division, Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Joseph A. D’Amico, the Superintendent of the New York State (NYSP),announced the unsealing yesterday of an indictment...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Seattle- Klondike Gold Rush National Historical park invites all 4th grade students to visit the park as part of the White House's new Every Kid in a Park initiative. Fourth grade students across the country can visit www.everykidinapark.gov to complete an activity and earn a free annual entry pass to more than 2,000 federal recreation areas, including national parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - WILLIAM C. CRANK II, Rolla, MO, was sentenced to 28 months in prison involving his distribution of methamphetamine in March and April 2014, in Phelps County. He appeared this morning in St. Louis before United States District Judge John Ross.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man who assisted in the sale of heroin in Huntington in 2013 and 2014 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Ramone L. Wells, 20, entered a guilty plea in federal court in Huntington to conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Carol G. Bridge, who handled the case, stated that on July 18, 2011, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at the defendant’s residence on Dove St. in Dunkirk. Officers seized a computer and a shotgun from Taylor’s room. An analysis determined that the computer contained over 3000 images of child pornography, many depicting pre-pubescent children and images of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - Nine people have been indicted for their roles in two separate drug rings responsible for distributing large quantities of methamphetamine, oxycodone, and marijuana in West Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Senior United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo sentenced Robert K. Gallmann, Jr., age 56, of Harrisburg yesterday to five years in prison for receipt and distribution of child pornography, and ordered the defendant to serve 10 years in supervised release following completion of the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Warrensburg, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for distributing and possessing hundreds of thousands of images of child pornography. Richard Alan Sigsbury...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today alleging that Shannon Lester Sorrells, 36, of Dinuba, committed bank fraud and aggravated identity theft while awaiting trial for the original indictment, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
