News from May 2015

By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that ISMAEL COBIAN MENDOZA, age 42, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced to 87 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Marijuana.

By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles Jr. sentenced Maryland attorney Don F. Lindner, age 61, of Severna Park, Maryland, today to a year and a day in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for filing a false tax return. Judge Quarles also entered an order requiring...

By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: Devised a scheme to file false income tax returns using forms obtained from illegal aliens on the Eastern Shore.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - David Alberto Canales, 47, formerly of El Salvador, was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for possession of child pornography, second-degree sexual abuse, first-degree child sexual abuse and illegal re-entry of a removed alien, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Vincent H. Cohen, Jr.; Clark...

By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Lebanon County couple have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg and arrested for possession of cocaine and criminal conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: Seventy-One Defendants Charged in Long-Running Investigation of Grape Street Crips Street Gang.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and David Downing, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), were joined today by DEA New Orleans Division Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown in announcing the charging and arrests of multiple individuals in several federal indictments presented as part of a DEA national initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: Troy B. Schuuring, 39, of Galion, Ohio, was charged with receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Keith Morehouse, 60, of Glasgow, Montana, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in federal court for killing a golden eagle near Glasgow, Montana. U.S. Magistrate Judge John T. Johnston sentenced Morehouse to a $3,000 fine and $3,000 in restitution to the Montana Raptor Conservation Center...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: Bought and sold over 13 kilograms of cocaine and 478 grams of heroin.

By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Destry Wood, 50, of Centralia, Illinois, pled guilty on May 19, 2015, to Conspiracy to Manufacture and Distribute Methamphetamine and Possession of Pseudoephedrine with the Intent to Manufacture Methamphetamine as charged against him in an indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury in November 2014. The offenses took place in Marion, Clinton and St. Clair Counties.

By USDA Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: “Thank you Mr. Chairman. COOL is something we’ve been working on for a long time. I thought the language in the 2008 Farm Bill was something we could all live with but that wasn’t the case.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that LaDONNA JANE BURNS, age 44, Tulsa, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 3 years of probation for Embezzlement and Theft From An Indian Tribal Organization. Burns was also ordered to pay $5258.40 in restitution to the victim.

By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Today a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging Lawrence George Owen, 73, of La Paz, Mexico, and Gary Bryant, 67, of Estacada, Oregon, with conspiring to defraud the IRS of more than $1.5 million in unpaid income and payroll taxes stemming from the operation of...

By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - A Phenix City, Alabama, resident and former state employee was sentenced to serve more than seven years in prison for her role in a stolen identity tax refund fraud ring, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama, and Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Lebanon man was indicted by a federal grand jury and arrested today for distribution of synthetic marijuana, possession of a stolen firearm and possession of body armor.

By Commerce Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: The community of the future will solve problems using machines linked and coordinated by Internet-style networks. For a glimpse of this exciting future as it arrives, visit the Global Cities Teams Challenge Expo on June 1, 2015, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: Defendant choked victim until she blacked out, then poured boiling hot water on her groin to bring her back to consciousness.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Demetrius Holmes, 24, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a weapon before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg returned an Indictment charging David Auman, age 37, of Liverpool, with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.