News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -A federal grand jury indicted four Battle Creek men, William Jeffrey-Davis Edwards (age 24), Dakota Dale Walters (age 24), James Gabriel Smith (age 26), and Michael Ray Noble II (age 20), on multiple counts of sex trafficking two minors, both age 14. Calhoun County previously...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Criminal charges were unsealed against multiple defendants relating to their participation in a sophisticated global cell phone fraud scheme, involving the takeover or compromise of cell phone customers’ accounts and the “cloning" of their phones to make fraudulent international calls.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: A leader of a large drug trafficking group who tortured a co-conspirator to get information about a missing shipment of drugs, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 15 years in prison for three federal felonies related to the drug enterprise, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, man charged with Falsification of Financial Records Required to Be Kept by Labor Unions pled guilty and was sentenced on July 14, 2016, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, more recently a resident of Tucker, Georgia, has been sentenced in federal court to 144 months (12 years) imprisonment followed by five years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics and money laundering laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Williamsport, Md. - Weather permitting, on August 1 through August 5, 2016, the water level of the Potomac River reservoir impounded by Dam #4 and Dam #5 will be lowered approximately 6 inches to allow the National Park Service to conduct an annual visual inspection of the dams and photographic documentation.In...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina ----Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that on July 20, 2016, Mark Nigel Wilkins, age 49, formerly of Lexington, South Carolina entered a plea of guilty in Federal Court in Greenville, South Carolina before the Honorable Bruce H. Hendricks. Mr. Wilkins pled guilty to Wire Fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343. He faces a possible sentence of up to 20 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: The owner of more than 30 Miami-area skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, a hospital administrator and a physician’s assistant were charged with conspiracy, obstruction, money laundering and health care fraud in connection with a $1 billion scheme involving numerous Miami-based health care providers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment on Thursday against four individuals for their involvement in large-scale marijuana cultivation operations on National Forest land, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HECTOR ROMAN, 30, of New Britain, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 38-year-old resident of Mission has been ordered to prison for 120 months following his conviction of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jose Manuel Ochoa pleaded guilty April 7, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Lotawata Creek, Inc., d/b/a Lotawata Creek Southern Grill, a restaurant located in Fairview Heights, Illinois, and its two owners, Rodney Archer, 50, and Kenneth Archer, 52, were each sentenced for the offense of Conspiracy to Obstruct the Internal Revenue Service in the Assessment and Collection of...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: AUBURN, Ala. - Federal inspectors concluded an inspection of an automobile auto parts manufacturer and found that permanent and temporary employees faced the dangers of being caught-in machinery, hit by objects and the risk of amputation at the Pyongsan America Inc. facility in Auburn. Pyongsan manufactures heating, ventilation and air conditioning hoses for Hyundai, Kia, Chrysler and General Motors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A 51-year-old resident of Dickinson has been ordered to prison for nearly 20 years following his conviction of distribution, receipt and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Richard Wayne Barton pleaded guilty Feb. 8, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, Nestor Marcelino Delacruz (Delacruz) was arraigned on an indictment before United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis in Brooklyn federal court. Delacruz is charged with the 2003 firearm-related homicide of Francisco De Orbe.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former deputy with the Bullitt County, Kentucky, Sheriff’s Office was convicted today by a federal jury of two counts of willfully depriving a Bullitt County resident of his constitutional rights under color of law, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn Jr. of the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Justin Bent, 29, of Southwest Harbor, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to six months in prison as well as three years of supervised release and ordered to pay a total of $2,520...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Criminal charges were unsealed against multiple defendants relating to their participation in a sophisticated global cell phone fraud scheme, involving the takeover or compromise of cell phone customers’ accounts and the “cloning" of their phones to make fraudulent international calls.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Colorado man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, Possession of a Controlled Substance, and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO, Idaho (July 22, 2016)-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in partnership with The Conservation Fund and landowners Gordon and Theresa Prouse, has permanently protected 400 acres within Blackfoot River Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA). Thanks to $900,000 in funding from America’s...
