News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VICTOR CUEVAS, 52, of Bristol, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to conspiring with others to commit bank fraud in connection with his home mortgage loan applications.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Patrick Mara, 36, of Bakersfield, a former detective with the Bakersfield Police Department (BPD), pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Justin Stevens, 32, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of money laundering conspiracy, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - A simple task for an employee at Wegmans Food Market Inc.'s commercial bakery in Rochester instead resulted in a needless and severe injury. As the worker cleaned an operating conveyor belt and roller on Dec. 16, 2015, her hand was caught between the belt and the roller and the machine pulled it in. She sustained broken bones in her hand and arm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: Drugs Found During Traffic Stop in Northeast Washington.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: Alexandria Va. - United States Park Police are investigating a fatal 2 vehicle crash involving a passenger car and mid-sized shuttle bus, on the George Washington Memorial Parkway near Stratford Lane. One passenger from the bus died on the scene.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - United States Magistrate Judge Silvia Carreño-Coll authorized a criminal complaint charging Noel D. Cruz-Torres (“Cruz-Torres") with malicious use of explosives. Cruz-Torres was arrested after throwing Molotov cocktails at the DuPont Pioneer building in Salinas, PR, and at PRPD officers...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield woman pleaded guilty on Friday, June 20, 2016, in connection with cashing more than $1.3 million in fraudulent income tax refund checks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: Nahum Shibeshi, 28, of Houston, Texas, pleaded guilty on June 16, 2016, in US District Court to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and interstate travel in support of racketeering activities, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - John Sanders, 25, of Williamsport, Maryland, was sentenced to 120 months in prison today for distribution of heroin, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, Energy Storage Systems Program, through the support of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) and in collaboration with many stakeholders and interested parties, developed...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Placentia woman was sentenced today to 96 months in federal prison related to her operation of a hospice that submitted more than $9 million in fraudulent bills to Medicare and Medi-Cal for purportedly providing end-of-life care to patients who were not actually dying.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: A tax service business owner was sentenced to 4 ½ years in prison for his participation in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), has scheduled a full committee markup on Wednesday, June 22, 2016, at 5 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider five bills. Members will convene for opening statements only on Wednesday and reconvene Thursday, June 23, 2016, at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Tavon Slowe, age 24, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to charges arising from two murder for hire contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - Five Kankakee area men identified as local leaders and members of the Latin Kings and a girlfriend of one of the men are scheduled for trial in August 2016, on federal charges, after making their respective initial appearances in Urbana, Ill., before U.S. District Judge Colin S. Bruce. A federal grand jury returned three indictments earlier in June 2016, but the charges had remained sealed pending their arrests and court appearances.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Placentia woman was sentenced today to 96 months in federal prison related to her operation of a hospice that submitted more than $9 million in fraudulent bills to Medicare and Medi-Cal for purportedly providing end-of-life care to patients who were not actually dying.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: VERNAL, Utah - Media representatives are invited to join the Flaming Gorge Working Group at an open public forum for information exchange between the Bureau of Reclamation and the stakeholders of Flaming Gorge Dam. The public is encouraged to attend and comment on the operations and plans presented by Reclamation at these meetings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to operate an interstate sex trafficking business, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -On Saturday June, 18 at approximately 3 pm the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a call reporting a missing person in the extreme western portion of Grand Canyon National Park, near Kelly Tanks in Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument.
