News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal jury sitting in Santa Fe, N.M., returned a verdict Friday afternoon finding Roberto Thomas guilty on narcotics trafficking charges, announced U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy of the DEA’s El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Hacienda Heights couple pleaded guilty today to federal fraud charges related to their participating in a scheme that generated millions of dollars by soliciting investments in a company that purportedly offered children’s educational courses - but in reality was a pyramid scheme designed to generate revenue by adding new investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two women were sentenced to prison today for federal heroin crimes, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Charon Chere Harris, 36, of Huntington, was sentenced to a year and three months in federal prison for maintaining a residence for the purpose of distributing heroin. In a separate prosecution, Kaleigh Horn, 25, of Chillicothe, Ohio, was sentenced to three years and two months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that PETER RESSLER, 68, of Woodbridge, was charged today by federal criminal complaint with embezzlement of debtor’s funds. RESSLER was an attorney with a bankruptcy practice based in New Haven.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man, Alondo Wheeler, a/k/a “Lil Dude," has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to serve 168 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in November 2015 to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - 70-year-old David Heinsen of Nashville, Michigan, was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison - the maximum term -- for receiving 650,000 images and videos of child pornography on his computers. In announcing the federal sentence, U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney ordered that of the 20-year sentence, 15 years must be served after Heinsen finishes his 40-60 year sentence in a related Barry County Criminal Sexual Conduct case.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced JASON DEAN, 30, of Henderson to 51 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - One of the owners of a now-defunct Southern California real estate investment firm was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to participating in a fraudulent scheme that ended with the bankruptcy of the company and hundreds of investors collectively losing as much as $169 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Vermont. Monday, April 25, 2016. The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that today Bernard Savage, 57, plead guilty before Judge William K. Sessions to conspiring to distribute powder cocaine and oxycodone, between...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: A long-ago chapter of California history is deeply personal to Dennis Carlos of Nuevo, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kenneth Bryan Crowley, 29, of Rockville, Maryland, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for his role in a multi-state heroin distribution network, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Flavio Loya Moncada, 53, of Deming, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 63 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Two men from Houston have entered guilty pleas to using stolen personal identifying information stolen from Harris County inmates to submit false and fraudulent individual income tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark, New Jersey, man today admitted selling fake driver’s licenses through an online shop and filing fraudulent tax returns using stolen identity information, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: Joshua Tree National Park, Twentynine Palms, CA -.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two women were sentenced to prison today for federal heroin crimes, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Charon Chere Harris, 36, of Huntington, was sentenced to a year and three months in federal prison for maintaining a residence for the purpose of distributing heroin. In a separate prosecution, Kaleigh Horn, 25, of Chillicothe, Ohio, was sentenced to three years and two months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: Greensboro, N.C. - To encourage and highlight United States Department of Justice efforts to improve federal reentry outcomes, the week of April 24 - 30, 2016, has been designated as National Reentry Week. Supporting successful reentry is an important part of the Department’s mission to promote public...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after a business meeting in which the committee unanimously approved the nominations of Julie Becker, Steven Berk, and Elizabeth...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE - United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Terrence P. Donnelly will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming April 26, 2016, Presidential primary...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Sophia Dix, 35, of Newport News, pleaded guilty today to charges of wire fraud.
