News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney's Office announced the return of an indictment charging Dillon Douglas Kingsbery, 31, of Huntertown, Indiana with one count of knowingly receiving child pornography along with one count of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Cedric Sewell, 52, of Stockton, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to 17 years and seven months in prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, and being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On May 28, 2015, Johnny White, 46, of Kingsport, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Judge, to serve 120 months in federal prison for his role in an extensive a-PVP (alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone) distribution conspiracy centered in and around the Sullivan County area and for being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition. A-PVP is a synthetic drug which is commonly referred to on the street as “Gravel" or “Flakka.".
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., tax preparer has pleaded guilty to preparing false tax returns, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kameron Lee Frank, 22, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Iyanbito, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 37 months in prison for his involuntary manslaughter conviction. He will be on supervised release for three years after he completes his prison sentence. Frank was also ordered to pay $4,542.00 in restitution to the family of the victim.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Shanntaye Ebony Hicks, 25, of Sacramento, was sentenced today to 24 years and four months in prison for two counts of transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-area woman and man who were responsible for more than $1.8 million in fraudulent Medicare billings - almost entirely for medically unnecessary power wheelchairs - have been found guilty of health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Second Woman Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Robbery For Her Role in Events Before and After the Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ANTONIO HALEY, age 38, of Hammond, and ORLANDO RODRIGUEZ, age 25, of Houston, were charged today in a three-count Indictment for conspiring to and possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced in federal court to 90 months’ imprisonment on his convictions of bank embezzlement, bank fraud, mail fraud, tax fraud, conspiracy to commit counterfeiting and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Settlement Provides $9 Million in Compensation to African-American and Hispanic Borrowers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL- U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Matthew Anillo Mango (32, Lakeland) to 10 years in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition. This charge stemmed from the 2010 homicide of Lakeland resident Amanda Peterson. Mango pleaded guilty on June 24, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Wenston DeSue (44, Bradenton) today pleaded guilty to theft of federal funds. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a York man was charged in an Indictment by a grand jury yesterday with coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity and distribution and receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Rock Island, Ill. - Arraignment and detention hearings have been scheduled on Monday, June 1, 2015, in federal court for an East Moline, Ill., man and woman charged with participating in a conspiracy to defraud victims using Facebook and email. Barbara Segura, 57, and Frederico Sausedo, 48, both of the...
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: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Darius Williams, 31, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced today, for distribution of heroin. Williams was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment and 6 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: HONOLULU -- Following a 25-day trial spanning over seven weeks, a federal jury yesterday found George Lindell, 67, and Holly Hoaeae, 40, both formerly of Maui, guilty of eight mail fraud and two wire fraud charges in connection with their operation of a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme associated with their mortgage and insurance business on Maui. Lindell was also convicted of four counts of money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: MILWAUKEE - ― Federal law enforcement officials today announced the arrest of Chinese National Haijun Tian, the highest-level synthetic designer drug trafficker apprehended to date in the United States. Agents from the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Criminal (IRS) arrested...
