News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: Under arrest: • Damon Montgomery;. • Herbert Montgomery;. • Paris Montgomery;. • Frank Figueroa;. • James Washington;. • Jonathan Figueroa;. • Johnnie Balkman;. • Robert Cochran;. • Laron Perkins; and. • DeShawnra Williams, all of Rochester, NY. Also under arrest are Jerome Randolph, aka “May," David Haynes...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio today, 46-year-old independent insurance consultant William O. Haff faces up to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty this afternoon to his role in a kickback/bribery scheme involving local school district insurance plans announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: Savannah, GA - Daniel Britton, 45, of Midway, Georgia, was sentenced yesterday to 41 months in prison by United States Chief Judge Lisa Godbey Wood after pleading guilty to transporting a firearm to Georgia from another state.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Ryan Tojdowski, 32, of Arcade, NY, who was convicted of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to 46 months imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: The last of five defendants involved in a stolen identity tax refund scheme have been sentenced in United States District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that Anthony Leroy Doctor, a/k/a “Amp," age 26, of Columbia, South Carolina plead guilty today in federal court. Doctor plead guilty to being in possession of a stolen firearm and ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
Release: Washington, DC, March 31, 2016 - Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) named 10 winners of its E.A.T. (Electronic Application Transformation) School Lunch U.X. Challenge, a public “hackathon" challenging individuals and organizations to revolutionize the way households apply for free and reduced price school meals.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA, March 31, 2016 - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials today joined 15 national and regional philanthropic partners to announce a new initiative to bolster the supply chain for local food systems around ten key U.S. cities. The project, dubbed 'Food LINC', will connect demand for local...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Frank Michael Pearson, 45, a former Loudon County Sheriff’s Deputy from Winchester, was convicted after a bench trial today on four counts of theft in relation to his embezzlement of over $229,000 from the asset forfeiture fund at the Loudon County Sheriff’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: Walsh Falsely Represented that He Worked Regular and Overtime Hours for.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: LEXINGTON - A former nurse at the federal prison in Lexington has been sentenced for smuggling tobacco into the prison, in exchange for payments from inmates.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Edwin Orlando Tejeda Aria, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced to twenty-four months in federal prison, after pleading guilty to illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that China Scott, age 45, of Middletown, Pennsylvania was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg for Health Care Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio, a U.S. Army Specialist assigned to Fort Sam Houston remains in federal custody today in connection with the sexual exploitation of minors announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage man has been sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve 50 months in prison for his role in importing large quantities of methamphetamine into Anchorage from California.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management's National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board will meet on April 13-14 in Redmond, Oregon, to discuss issues relating to the management and protection of wild horses and burros on Western public rangelands. The two-day meeting will take place on Wednesday, April 13, from...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury, today, returned guilty verdicts against Jean Baptiste Alvarez, a/k/a “Alex," 43, of Aldan, PA, on charges related to a tax fraud scheme. Alvarez was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the United States with respect to false claims, aggravated identity theft, and misuse...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: IOLA, Kan. - As alarms sounded, hundreds of workers evacuated a candy manufacturing plant when an air-conditioning unit pipe failed and released about 22 pounds of anhydrous ammonia into the air throughout the Iola facility. No workers were injured in the incident which closed the plant for more than two hours.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: BALTIMORE - Walter Moffett, age 51, of Chestertown, Maryland pleaded guilty today to his participation in a drug conspiracy in connection with the operation of purported pain management clinics that were actually “pill mills." Eight co-conspirators previously pleaded guilty to the same charge.
