News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett has sentenced three co-defendants in a Baltimore area drug conspiracy. Guy Bordes Agnant, Jr., age 38, of Laurel, Maryland was sentenced today to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for attempted possession with...
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today presented its prestigious "Making a Difference" National Volunteer Awards for outstanding volunteer service in 2014 on BLM-managed lands. Among the recipients of the award were Ted Brummer, a recreation and visitor services volunteer at the Keysville Special...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Usbaldo Martinez, 34, of Logansport, Indiana, was sentenced today to 100 months imprisonment, for possessing stolen firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that WANDA JAMES, age 46, of Kentwood, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information charging her with making false entries and reports of money belonging to the United States, and in the care, custody and control of the United States Postal Service.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Garden State Cardiovascular Specialists P.C. Agrees to Pay $3.6 Million for Allegedly Submitting False Claims to Federal Health Care Programs.
By USDA Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Atlanta Specialty Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) released final environmental reviews for land use plans in Utah that will help to conserve greater sage-grouse habitat and support sustainable economic development. The land management plans, developed during the past three...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A convicted sex offender who is on parole for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor has been charged in federal court for allegedly distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges today sentenced Michael Paul Watkins (41, Citrus Springs) to six years and six months in federal prison for possession of firearms and ammunition by a previously convicted felon. Watkins pleaded guilty on Feb. 26, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Garden State Cardiovascular Specialists P.C. (Garden State), a cardiology practice which owns and operates several facilities in New Jersey under the name NJ MedCare/NJ Heart, has agreed to pay more than $3.6 million to resolve allegations that its facilities falsely billed federal health care programs for tests that were not medically necessary, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Mark Daniel DeHaven (33, Winter Garden) to eight years and one month in federal prison for receiving child pornography.
By US DOT Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), will hold a hearing next week on the Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 accident that occurred on May 12th in Philadelphia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ANGELA LEMOINE, 43, of Amite, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information charging her with theft of funds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Nathan C. Johnson, age 51, of Marietta, Patricia T. Brookshire, age 54, of Travelers Rest, and Carmen B. Crudo, age 31, of Hendersonville, North Carolina, pled guilty today in federal court in Anderson, to conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Murfreesboro Police Department (MPD) announced today that Charles Franklin, age 34, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Todd Campbell for felon in possession of a firearm and possession of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Tariq Haitham Alkhudayri, 28, of Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, was charged today by indictment with one count each of distribution of child pornography, receipt of child pornography, and possession of child pornography announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about August and November 2014, Alkhudayri distributed, received, and possessed images of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-Following an 8-day jury trial, Bruce Carlton Wright, 69, of Norman, was convicted today of conspiracy and 11-counts of bank fraud. The scheme to defraud the IBC Bank of approximately $1.2 million dollars was in connection with property development, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a grand jury in Williamsport returned an indictment against an inmate serving a sentence at the United States Penitentiary Allenwood, White Deer, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Gregory Cooper, 59, of Glenn Dale, Maryland, a former U.S. Postal Service contracting officer, pleaded guilty today to receiving bribes in connection with the awarding of contracts to deliver the mail.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Ronald G. Murphy, age 53, formerly of Belleville, Illinois, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison on Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Murphy had previously pled guilty on Feb. 3, 2015 to two federal charges: 1) Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin and Cocaine; and 2) Attempted Distribution of Heroin.
