News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Brenda Honena, 52, of Blackfoot, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to the theft of money from the Fort Hall Elementary School in 2012, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Honena was indicted by the federal grand jury in Pocatello on Feb. 23, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Tennessee Man Sentenced to 48 Months in Prison for Romney Tax Return Fraud and Extortion Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Chicago Man Wanted for First-Degree Murder Extradited from Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man was sentenced today to 148 months in prison for his role in a large-scale drug trafficking organization that distributed hundreds of grams of cocaine base, cocaine and heroin, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Michael Mancil Brown, 37, of Franklin, Tenn., was sentenced late yesterday to 48 months in prison for engaging in an extortion and wire fraud scheme involving former presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax returns, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee; Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Steven J. Hayes Ordered To Pay His Victims $822,961.23 In Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Benito Mora Jr., 38, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was sentenced today to 121 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Mora to serve four years of supervised release following his release from prison. Mora pleaded guilty to the charge on May 24, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man was sentenced today to 148 months in prison for his role in a large-scale drug trafficking organization that distributed hundreds of grams of cocaine base, cocaine and heroin, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: AUG 09 - HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Luis Cedillo, 33, last residing in Los Angeles, Calif., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Noelle Bishopel, 27, and Sierra Wimberly, 25, each pleaded guilty today in District Court on St. Thomas to one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Eight Florida residents were charged in an indictment that was unsealed today for their alleged participation in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme involving prescription compounding pharmacies located in the Tampa Bay, Florida, area and in Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, woman today admitted conspiring with her former boyfriend to produce sexually explicit images of two children, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - A man who conspired with others to traffic methamphetamine into Southwest Virginia pled guilty yesterday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO-A federal jury found Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E") guilty today of multiple willful violations of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 (“PSA") and obstructing an agency proceeding, announced U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Four Nuestra Familia Gang Members Convicted in California for Their Roles in Racketeering Conspiracy, Murder and Related Offenses.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: ANDOVER, Mass. - Dorchester-based contractor Roof Kings LLC exposed employees to life-threatening falls - more than 45 feet off the ground - over a three-day period as they worked at a Haverhill church, federal workplace safety and health inspectors found.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: A Palm Beach County resident was convicted yesterday by a jury in United States District Court of unlawfully distributing a controlled substance, Fentanyl, which resulted in the death of a 23 year old man.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a former Western Union and MoneyGram agent pleaded guilty yesterday to charges he participated in an international mass marketing consumer fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: AUG 09 - BURLINGTON, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Division and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced federal criminal charges against Michael Prescott, 52, of Chittenden County, Vermont. Prescott is charged with distributing heroin on March 2 and March 7, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI),announced that on August 8, 2016, Defendant JAYVIN WYLL UEDA REMOKET was sentenced by the Honorable Frances Tydingco-Gatewood, Chief Judge, District Court of Guam. Defendant was sentenced to serve 14 years incarceration, to run concurrent to five years incarceration, followed by three years of supervised release.