News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Kenneth Robert Bruce has been convicted on all counts as charged, to include 26 counts of willfully filing a false claim against the U.S. and for obstructing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The verdict was returned late yesterday after a five-day trial and approximately 2 ½ hours of deliberation.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- For only the second time since the National Park Service began studying local mountain lions in 2002, researchers have documented a successful crossing of the 101 Freeway.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Albert Torres Morales, 30, of Richford, Vermont was sentenced today to 84 months imprisonment on charges that he carried a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime, and conspired to distribute heroin, cocaine base, and cocaine. Chief Judge Christina Reiss also ordered that Torres Morales serve a three-year period of supervised release following his term of imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PAUL WHITEHURST, also known as “Juice," 25, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on March 20, 2015, Javier Gomez Zambrano, 21, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for misprision of a felony, (failing to report actual knowledge of the commission of a felony as soon as possible). Gomez Zambrano was ordered to serve one year on supervised release following the prison term. However, he is expected to be deported upon completion of his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Jean Sanborn of Mobile, Alabama pled guilty, in United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama in Mobile, Alabama, to one count of mail fraud in regard to falsely claiming to be entitled to monies in an insurance claim she filed with ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced William Demethris Bass (40, Oviedo) to 15 years in federal prison for bank robbery. He pleaded guilty on November 4, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Joshua Gilliland (31) and Chawalit (“Chow") Wongkhiao (28), both of Jacksonville, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. If convicted on all counts...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Drug Supplier Shot and Killed Young Man as he Ran Away from Attempted Drug Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Isaac Tyler Waugh, 20, of Crawford, West Virginia, was convicted in federal court today of prescription painkiller trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Rebecca Lee Rabon, 44, of Houston, has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and five counts of health care fraud in relation to a health care fraud scheme that billed Tricare and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas more than $3.7 million, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Ismael Burgos, 53, Jamestown, NY, with attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine. The charge carries a maximum of 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Four individuals were sentenced in federal court in Clarksburg today on drug trafficking charges, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. Customs and Border (CBP) Office of Air and Marine Agents intercepted a vessel Wednesday evening attempting to smuggle 42 bales of cocaine, totaling 2,425 (1,100 kilos), with an approximated street value of $30.8 million, south of the island of Vieques; an eastern island off...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO ― A Chicago area man was convicted today for producing child pornography involving a minor whom he photographed in sexually explicit photos as a part of a fantasy world that the defendant created. The defendant, JOHN GABRIEL, 79, of Lockport, who has been in custody since he was arrested on federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 10 count indictment charging Ryan Tojdowski, 31, of Arcade, NY, with manufacturing marijuana, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, oxycodone, morphine, alprazolam, hydrocodone, clonazepam...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Three individuals, including a former employee of the U.S. Postal Service, have pled guilty based on their participation in an identity theft tax refund fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Herschell Becker, John Becker aka Jack Becker, and ADA Station Communication, Inc. were indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for bribery of a public official. The offenses charged occurred from June 2014 through August 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: UNITED STATES ATTORNEY TO MEET WITH TROY RESIDENTS.
