News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Two former Georgia Department of Corrections (GDOC) employees, four current Georgia state inmates, three recently paroled inmates, and three others have been charged federally with drug trafficking, extortion, wire fraud conspiracies, wire fraud, and identity theft offenses, as detailed in two indictments unsealed today. Much of the criminal conduct allegedly was committed inside Georgia state prisons.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a New York state woman was indicted late yesterday by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg for allegedly using fraudulently obtained credit cards in June 2014 to make thousands of dollars of purchases from stores in Cumberland County and Luzerne County.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - -This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost 5,000 collection sites around the nation to return all unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe and anonymous disposal. This is the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 10th National Prescription...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad announced today that five Detroit-area individuals were indicted for the Dec. 29, 2014 robbery of the Husar’s House of Fine Diamonds in West Bend, Wisconsin. Trayvon Shelton (age 24) Charles Leroy Hall (age 28) Gawain Mandeville-Nelson II (age 23) Deangelo Hayes (age 23) and Aliya Rahman (age 21) were charged with one count of Hobbs Act robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - An Oak Lawn man was arrested today on federal charges that he imported anabolic steroids from China and distributed them to large-scale suppliers in the Chicago area.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ A 29-year-old resident of Camargo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, has been handed a significant sentence for his conviction of kidnapping, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Acting Special Agent in Charge Mark Dawson of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in San Antonio. Martin Margarito-Casimiro pleaded guilty to the charges May 27, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a former Schuylkill County employee, Virginia G. Kunigonis, age 54, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, has been charged with embezzling $452,186 from the Schuylkill County Conservation District between 2007 and 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Grigoriy (Greg) Zilberman, age 24, of Owings Mills, pleaded guilty today to a robbery conspiracy in connection with the robbery of a jewelry store, including a home invasion robbery, and a carjacking and kidnapping.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Fritch, TX - Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument will host FlintFest 2015 on Saturday, Oct. 3, and Sunday, October 4, 2015. Flintfest celebrates the unique resource known as Alibates flint and its usage through the ages. This year also marks the 50thAnniversary of Alibates Flint Quarries National...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Elizabeth Kressin, D.C., from Spencer, Iowa, has agreed to pay $62,349 to resolve allegations she violated the False Claims Act by improperly billing the Medicaid system for medically unnecessary chiropractic procedures and for the treatment of conditions for which payment is not allowed, including bed...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A member of the Boston Teamsters Local 82 was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with stealing unemployment insurance benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A total of 18 defendants have entered guilty pleas in recent weeks to various charges to include conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, possession with intent to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to launder drug proceeds, announced Drug Enforcement Administration...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Boise, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation has extended the public scoping period on alternatives related to the proposed Lewiston Orchards Project Water Exchange and Title Transfer. The formal scoping period will now close on Oct. 12, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A total of 18 defendants have entered guilty pleas in recent weeks to various charges to include conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, possession with intent to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to launder drug proceeds, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The members of this drug and money laundering organization were part of the conspiracy that occurred from on or about June 2011 through June 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Miss - A criminal complaint has been filed against Jackson Police Officer Bryan Jones, 44, of Jackson, charging him with extortion by use of his position as a police officer, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Former Miami Springs Police Department (MSPD) Sergeant Andres Quintanilla was sentenced today to nine years in prison by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Michael K. Moore. Quintanilla had previously pleaded guilty to receiving bribes from an undercover FBI confidential source, who Quintanilla believed was a narcotics trafficker.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Second Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Hate Crime Against Gay African-American Man.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Superintendent Brad Bennett announces that a general management planning effort focused on Moccasin Bend Archeological District is now underway. The planning effort will amend the 1988 General Management Plan of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park to guide decisions about future natural and cultural resource conditions, as well as visitor experience opportunities on Moccasin Bend.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Weirton, West Virginia resident Henry Lee Cutler, 24, originally of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for failing to update his sex offender registration, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy J. Jackson, 56, of Newell, West Virginia, was sentenced today twelve months and one day in prison for possession of a stolen firearm. United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
