News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - Federal authorities today announced criminal charges against four Chicago-area residents for a variety of alleged income tax frauds. With tax season in full swing, the prosecutions serve as a warning to avoid dishonest tax-return preparers, and to remind taxpayers that each individual is responsible for the contents of his or her own return.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Matthew Bryan Caniff (32, Gainesville) has been arrested and charged by a federal criminal complaint with using the Internet to attempt to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison. His detention hearing is scheduled for today at 3:00 p.m. before United States Magistrate James R. Klindt.
By State Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A former guard at the federal prison camp in Bryan will now be on the other side of prison bars following his conviction on one count of sexual abuse of a ward, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Marshall Thomas, 35, of College Station, pleaded guilty to the charges Jan. 7, 2016.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on the third anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, and Chief Security Officer Thomas Belfiore and Superintendent...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A man who resided in Carpinteria has pleaded not guilty after being named in a federal grand jury indictment that charges him with producing, receiving, distributing and possessing child pornography in 2015 - crimes he allegedly committed soon after completing a state prison term as a result of other child pornography offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Matthew McElroy, 39, of Chicopee, Massachusetts, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to transporting child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA -Dr. Michael Jon Kell has been arraigned on four counts of tax evasion and one count of interfering with the administration of the Internal Revenue laws. Kell allegedly engaged in a two-decade scheme to evade federal taxes by funneling millions of dollars in assets through a church he created.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: The spring Eastern wild turkey hunt will take place in Massachusetts starting April 25, and in Cape Cod National Seashore for a fifth season.The 2016 national seashore turkey hunting season will run the first three weeks of the state four-week turkey season, which is open from April 25 through May 21, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Neil Van Dyck, 64, of Roseville, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine for committing healthcare fraud, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: SHASTA LAKE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released environmental documents for the implementation of a temporary program for annual water transfers, pursuant to Sacramento River Settlement Contract No. 14-06-200-855A-R-1 for Contract Years 2016 through 2020 (April 1, 2016 through Oct. 31, 2020).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 5 years’ probation with 10 months’ home detention on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute a quantity of crack cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Dennis K. Rawlins, 67, of Jackson, Ohio and Mark R. Heyd, 61, of Kailua, Hawaii with conspiring to produce, producing, distributing and possessing child pornography. Rawlins and Heyd were both also registered sex offenders as a result of prior convictions.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia-Spring in West Virginia highlights one of the earth's greatest natural treasures, the biologically diverse southern Appalachian forests. Next weekend's Thirteen Annual New River Gorge Wildflower Weekend is a celebration of this amazing natural heritage,April 22 -24, 2016. Each...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Reginald Fullwood (41, Jacksonville) with 10 counts of wire fraud and 4 counts of failure to file federal income tax returns. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: A man who was responsible for distributing pounds of ice methamphetamine and tampering with witnesses was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Four men have been charged with distributing heroin in Dubuque in 2016. The charges are contained in four Complaints unsealed yesterday in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By State Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement applauding Secretary Carter’s announcement that the United States will strengthen its military alliance with the Philippines...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-A member of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood (UAB) prison gang was sentenced in federal court today to 294 months in prison for conspiring to conduct a racketeering enterprise and related charges, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma.
