News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Amber M. Salts, a 29-year old, Washington Park, Illinois, woman was sentenced on March 25, 2016, in federal district court, in East St. Louis, Illinois, for violation of Sex Offender Notification and Registration Act (SORNA), the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Two Houston residents and one man from Brownsville have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in the attempted smuggling of a large amount of U.S. currency announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Victor Flores, 45, and José Juan Saavedra, 40, both of Houston, and Ricardo Cavazos-Garza, 51, of Brownsville, previously pleaded guilty in August 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two Brooklyn, New York, men were sentenced to prison today for fraudulently obtaining more than $250,000 through an elaborate “double-dipping" scheme that they committed at various Home Depot locations throughout the United States, including New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: NIAGARA, Wis. - For the sixth time since 2011, federal inspectors found a Wisconsin wood pallet manufacturer failed to comply with safety and health standards - putting its employees in jeopardy of suffering amputation, burns and other life-threatening injuries.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the arrest and unsealing of a complaint charging ANDREW CASPERSEN, 39, with securities and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud investors of over $95 million. From at least July 2015 through March...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: FARGO - U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on March 28, 2016, Tammy J Devier, 43, Crary, ND, was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve five (5) years of supervised probation for Willfully Causing the Failure to Pay Over Employment Taxes. Judge Erickson also...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 29-year-old Brooklyn, New York man pleaded guilty March 25, 2016 to sex trafficking of a minor before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Former President of Honduran Soccer Federation Pleads Guilty to Racketeering and Corruption Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that DENNIS W. HAMILTON, 45, of Norwalk, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of securities fraud.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Participants: U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, The Builders' Association
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that William McNeill, 23, of Cumberland, Rhode Island, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to travelling in interstate commerce to engage in sexual conduct with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Winston Sherif Richards, 40, a citizen of Jamaica, appeared in federal court and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. Magistrate Judge David S. Cayer presided over today’s plea hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Solomon Oyesanya, 33, of Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty today to a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Orquidea Quezada (48, Orlando) with 49 counts of wire fraud and one count of operating as an unlicensed money transmitter. Each wire fraud count carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Two Colombian nationals were each sentenced to more than 19 years in prison for their involvement in an international cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted Justin Larson, age 30, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, today for distribution of acetyl fentanyl, a controlled substance analogue, which resulted in death, and for a narcotics conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Defendant Attacked Officer in Attempt to Escape from Neah Bay Jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Daniel Lyons, 42, of Bangor pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to maintaining a drug involved premises.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Arizona Man and U.S. Citizen Residing in Germany Sentenced for Sexual Assault.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. - The National Park Service (NPS) has released a prospectus for the award of a new concession contract to operate Guided Interpretive Horseback Trail Rides and Pack Animal Services within Glacier National Park.
