News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: A longtime fugitive was sentenced to more than four years in prison for stealing $3.2 million through food stamp fraud more than two decades ago, U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that today in Federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced JOSEPH W. HORNER, JR., 73, of Fayetteville, North Carolina to 24 months imprisonment and three years of supervised...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: RIPON, Wis. - For the second time in less than two months, federal safety and health inspectors found an employee at one of world's leading commercial laundry equipment manufacturers suffered an amputation injury because a machine lacked adequate safety guarding.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Project Safe Neighborhoods. United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Marcus Champion was sentenced for his conviction for Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1). In court documents, Marcus Champion admitted...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation released a report this week reviewing the role of Reclamation in water markets. For decades, water users in the West have used many different approaches to address water needs particular to their location. In some instances, these approaches have created market conditions in which buyers and sellers voluntarily trade water rights. Such water market transactions can often involve Reclamation facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted felon who sold guns out of his garage in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood of Chicago has been found guilty of illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 32-year-old man extradited to the U.S. and later convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin has been ordered to federal prison, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Houston Division, Special Agent in Charge, Joseph M. Arabit and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Fernando Arturo Flores-Fang, 32, of Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico, pleaded guilty May 1, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On December 6, 2016, a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned five separate Indictments charging seven individuals with fraud against the Social Security Administration (SSA) disability insurance benefits in Puerto Rico, announced United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez Vélez.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jose Manuel Salazar Estrada, 38, of Mexico, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with illegally reentering the United States after a conviction for an aggravated felony. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that John Evans, 33, and Timothy Finch, 28, both of Buffalo, NY, who were convicted of RICO conspiracy, were sentenced to 188 months and 168 months in prison respectively, by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. Evans was also convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 280 grams or more of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the father of a man convicted of leading a large-scale drug-trafficking conspiracy in Columbia, Mo., was found guilty by a federal trial jury of threatening the attorney who represented one of his son’s co-defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Carl Javan Ross, age 30, of Essex, Maryland, for receipt and possession of child pornography. The verdict was returned on December 7, 2016, after 30 minutes of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-area man who traveled to Cambodia to engage in sexual activity with at least five boys has been sentenced to 264 months in federal prison after the court heard from four of the victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Yellowhorse photographed minor child in his care who appears to be sleeping and advertises access to the child pornography on international Internet webiste.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Normand Asselin, 41, of Westerly, was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison for possessing and distributing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Colonel Ann C. Assumpico, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Politc announced that RICKY P. TEMPLET, age 54, of Mandeville, was sentenced today for Theft of Government Funds.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, mourned the loss of former Senator John Glenn (D-Ohio), who passed away on Thursday at the age of 95. Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, served as chairman and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs from 1987 to 1995.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Defendant sentenced to over 12 years, admitted to delivery and attempted delivery of several pounds of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Three people were sentenced to prison for their roles in a $3 million conspiracy involving a home health service company with offices in Cleveland to defraud government insurance programs by billing for services not provided, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: DETROIT, MI - U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today that a Livonia, Michigan doctor, Fanny Dela Cruz, was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to illegally distribute prescription pills, and to defraud Medicare. McQuade was joined in the announcement by...
