News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in El Paso announced the filing of health care fraud charges against two San Juan County residents.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement in response to the United Kingdom’s decision to exit the European Union (otherwise referred to as “Brexit")...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - Superintendent Trish Kicklighter announced today that as crews are out assessing flood impacts to park facilities including campgrounds, parking lots, boat launches, beaches, roads, and trails at New River Gorge National River, Bluestone National Scenic River, and Gauley River National...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A 59-year-old teacher at Reinhardt Elementary School in Dallas, Mark Stutheit, remains in federal custody following his arrest last week on a federal complaint, filed on June 24, 2016, which charges him with receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced the guilty plea today of a Virginia man to a federal drug conspiracy charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Yesterday, Kristopher Andrew Jaramillo, 39, of Albuquerque, N. M., not a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 151 months’ imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. Jaramillo had previously pleaded guilty to bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrests of and unsealing of a criminal complaint charging Leonard Charles Agee Jr. (40, Titusville) and Benjamin S. Jenkins (36, Mims) with conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Steven Hameed, 57, and Darnell Young, 48, both of Chester PA, pleaded guilty today to all charges against them relating to a multi-year conspiracy to file false deeds on homes throughout Delaware County and file false tax forms against judges, law enforcement, and other government employees to try to intimidate and harass them in the course of their official duties, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ROYLEY A. FOLSE, JR., age 69, a resident of St. James Parish, pled guilty yesterday to a felony violation for selling migratory game birds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Rossy Noriega, 50, of Providence, R.I., owner of New Diamond Work, Inc., a temporary employment agency based in Fall River, Mass., was sentenced in federal court in Providence today to two years probation, the first six months to be served in home confinement with electronic monitoring, for failing to pay employment taxes for employees she paid in cash and failing to pay personal income taxes on unreported cash she pocketed from her business.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced Jan Alan Shafer, 65, of Oroville, to 10 years in prison, to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release, for attempted travel with intent to engage in sex with a minor, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate passed S. 2328, the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), with a bipartisan vote of 68-30. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Scott McNutt, 57, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to a federal indictment charging him with one count of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person in violation of federal law, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Malik D.M. Bell, 23, of Cincinnati, with sex trafficking of children, production of child pornography and transportation of minors in an indictment that was unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: A Robinson, Illinois, man was recently sentenced to federal prison on methamphetamine related charges, James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The City of Boston’s Chief of Staff of Intergovernmental Affairs, Timothy Sullivan, was arrested this morning after a federal grand jury indicted him in connection with the extortion of a music festival production company operating on City Hall Plaza.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man, Jerry Ware, who admitted that he and his accomplice, Kevin Howard, committed the armed robberies of five 7-Eleven/RaceTrac stores in Dallas in October 2014, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to serve 312 months (26 years) in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MARQUIS JOHNSON, age 25, of Chalmette, was sentenced today on charges related to four violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act. According to court records, JOHNSON conspired with others to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service has modified the regulation governing the gathering of plants in national parks to allow members of federally recognized Indian tribes to gather and remove plants or plant parts for traditional purposes. The rule change was announced by Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today at the National Congress of American Indians Mid-Year Conference in Spokane, Wash.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston federal jury has returned guilty verdicts against four defendants on all counts as charged in a $6 million fraudulent Medicare billing scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Giam Nguyen, D.O., 46, of Houston, Benjamin Martinez, M.D., 35, of Dallas, Donovan Simmons, M.D., 43 of Austin, and Anna Bagoumian, 43 of Glendale, California, were convicted late yesterday following an eight-day trial and approximately 13 hours of deliberation.
