News published on Federal Newswire in December 2016

News from December 2016


Fentanyl and Heroin Sold on Dark Web Marketplace

News Release: San Francisco Man Arrested for Distribution of a Controlled Substance.


Brian Coll, Former Correction Officer At Rikers Island, Convicted In Beating Death Of Inmate Ronald Spear

News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that BRIAN COLL, a former New York City Correction Officer, was convicted of causing the death of Ronald Spear, a pre-trial detainee at Rikers Island. COLL, then a correction officer on Rikers Island, had...


News Release: BOSTON - An East Boston woman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to fraudulently obtaining over $50,000 in Social Security benefits.


Brian Coll, Former Correction Officer at Rikers Island, Convicted in Beating Death of Inmate Ronald Spear

News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that BRIAN COLL, a former New York City Correction Officer, was convicted of causing the death of Ronald Spear, a pre-trial detainee at Rikers Island. COLL, then a correction officer on Rikers Island, had...


ThunderCat Agrees to Civil Settlement for Bid-Rigging and Kickback Schemes

News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - ThunderCat Technology, LLC, located in Reston, has agreed to pay $1 million to settle civil False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Act, and Procurement Integrity Act claims relating to bid rigging and kickback schemes in connection with six government procurements.


VERDE VALLEY NATIONAL MONUMENTS TO BE CLOSED ON CHRISTMAS DAY (Camp Verde)

News Release: Montezuma Castle, Montezuma Well, and Tuzigoot National Monuments will be closed on December 25th, 2016. The sites will reopen the following day. Regular operational hours are from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm at all three locations.


News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TRACY NICHELSON, age 43, a resident of Metairie, was sentenced today for defrauding a local business.


Niagara Falls Police Officer, Two Others Charged With Selling Cocaine

News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Raymond C. Hopson, Lindsay R. Carrier, Jr., and Stephanie A. Costanzo, a Niagara Falls Police Officer, who has since resigned, were charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to...


U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama Collects Over $2.6 Million in Civil and Criminal Actions for U.S. Taxpayers in Fiscal Year 2016

News Release: Montgomery, Alabama- U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. announced today that the Middle District of Alabama collected $2,639,626.76 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2016. Of this amount, $2,317,486.29 was collected in criminal actions and $322,140.47 was collected in civil actions.


Namibia Man Charged in Wire Fraud Case

News Release: Karl Christian Loibenbock, a/k/a “Karl Christian Loibenboeck," a/k/a “Christian Bock," of Windhoek, Namibia, was charged today by Indictment[1] with one count of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.



News Release: Daniel Acosta-Domiguez, a.k.a. “Daniel Acosta," a.k.a. “Jonathan Amador-Alvarez," 33, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment1 with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about Oct. 18, 2016, Jorge-Jimenez, an alien, and native and citizen of the Dominican Republic, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about May 21, 2013.


Chairman Royce Statement on Imminent Fall of Aleppo

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on the Syrian opposition’s evacuation of Aleppo...


News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ronald Epps, 48, of Amherst, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of wire fraud, mail fraud, arson, possession of Molotov Cocktails, maintaining a premises for drug trafficking, felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, was sentenced to 60 years by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.


News Release: FBI Cincinnati Presents Director’s Community Leadership Award to Steven Tinapple.


District Man Sentenced to 33 Months in Prison For Home Invasion in Northwest Washington

News Release: Defendant Used Victim's Debit Cards Soon After Burglary.


News Release: Expedited for prosecution by the ATF, Venegas had only been out of jail 47 days prior to chase.


News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Michael Mathison, 26, of Selma, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.


OSHA cites contractor after another Idaho worker falls to his death

News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Brandon Horine's first day at work removing shingles from a residential roof in Nampa was also his last. Without required fall protection equipment in place, the 42-year-old worker fell to the ground on Sept. 12, 2016 - suffering severe brain trauma that ended his life several days later.


News Release: Montezuma Castle, Montezuma Well, and Tuzigoot National Monuments will be closed on December 25th, 2016. The sites will reopen the following day. Regular operational hours are from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm at all three locations.