News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Sylvia Price, a/k/a “Deez Nuts," age 50, of Suitland, Maryland today to 75 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to participate in a racketeering conspiracy and to aggravated identity theft...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: A man who received child pornography was sentenced Dec. 20, 2016 to 20 years in federal prison.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: A new test kit, developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists, could limit the spread of red imported fire ants.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Three men pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with conducting an illegal gambling business.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today the sentencing of a Roanoke man on federal drug and gun charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Eric Leon Ager (77, Clearwater) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. Ager has agreed to pay over $10.3 million in restitution to his victims. His sentencing hearing has been set for March 13, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced federal criminal charges filed against 21 defendants for conspiring to commit health care fraud. The defendants, charged by four indictments and two felony informations, fraudulently billed insurance companies for millions of dollars over the course of the parallel conspiracies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Concord, New Hampshire-United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced four indictments charging seven individuals with drug trafficking activities in Manchester, New Hampshire. The following individuals were arrested and arraigned on Monday, December 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A federal grand jury in Dallas returned an indictment yesterday charging four individuals with felony offenses stemming from a “foreclosure rescue scheme" they ran from approximately February 2012 through January 2013, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A federal grand jury in Dallas returned an indictment yesterday charging four individuals with felony offenses stemming from a “foreclosure rescue scheme" they ran from approximately February 2012 through January 2013, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Chiropractors billed “no-fault" insurance policies for more than $20 million dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) task force officer/Mission Police Department investigator has been sentenced for his convictions of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury sitting in McAllen convicted Hector Mendez, 46, of San Juan, on July 14, 2016, following a six-day trial and approximately three hours of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. ‐ Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that the Western District of New York Office recovered in Fiscal Year (FY) 2016, $85,638,249 as a result of wide‐ranging efforts in criminal, civil and asset forfeiture cases. As a result, $5,307,448 was given to victims of crime...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Kemmerer Field Office is notifying the public that BLM-administered public lands in the Slate Creek, Rock Creek and Bridger Creek big game winter ranges will be closed to all motorized vehicle travel from Jan. 1 through Apr. 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Eddie Allen, 27, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of RICO Conspiracy in connection with a deadly shooting, was sentenced to 121 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Coeur d’Alene, ID - The Bureau of Land Management Coeur d’Alene Field Office will be applying for state recreation grants for trail, recreation and waterway improvements for the Ross Point recreation site in Post Falls.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Cape Lookout National Seashore announces the closing of Wade Shore restroom on Shackleford Banks. The restroom is closed for repairs and will reopen in the Spring of 2017. Restrooms are available at both Shackleford Banks and the Cape Lookout Lighthouse dock areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a man from Monroe was sentenced Tuesday to 60 months in prison for possessing cocaine with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Texas man has pleaded guilty to falsely reporting a shooting threat to delay the departure of a Megabus. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty plea today.
