News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Chad Roger Deucher, age 43, of Orem will make a May 26, 2016, appearance in federal court in Salt Lake City to face charges alleging that from March 2010 to February 2016, he operated a Ponzi scheme through a business he controlled that collected about $28 million from about 250 investors. Investigators involved in the case believe about 170 of the investors lost about $16 million in the scheme.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: National Park Serivce and National Park Foundation Bring the Magnificence of Redwood National Park to Life on University of Texas Campus with Andy Roddick, Inspiring a New Generation to #FINDYOURPARK.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Shane Scott, age 41, of Coldwater, Michigan, received a sentence of 33 years in federal prison for attempting to coerce or entice a mentally disabled 17-year-old into sex, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - Another member of a conspiracy that trafficked large quantities of methamphetamine from Atlanta to Southwest Virginia pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI -On Tuesday, May 3, 2016, Angel De Jesus Marrero, 31, of Puerto Rico, pleaded guilty in District Court on St. Thomas to encouraging and inducing aliens to illegally enter the United States, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Matthew Hynd, age 40, of Mundah, Queensland, Australia, was sentenced today to serve 78 months in prison for distributing and possessing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that nearly 2.5 million people visited Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument in 2015. Those visitors spent over $171 million in communities near the park and supported 2,440 jobs in the local area, with a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $195 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Kenneth Parker, of Keams Canyon, Ariz., a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 23 years in prison, followed by a term of 5 years of supervised release. Parker had previously pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual abuse of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Matthew Hynd, age 40, of Mundah, Queensland, Australia, was sentenced today to serve 78 months in prison for distributing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Ronald Henderson, 58, of Lewiston, North Carolina, was sentenced today to 13 months in prison for Federal Employees’ Compensation Fraud. He was also ordered to pay $163,956.23 in restitution to the Department of Labor.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Eric S. Miller, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, stated that Kenneth Beane, 27, of Rutland, Vermont, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford, to a year and a day in prison for the possession of over 7500 images and videos of child pornography. Beane was also sentenced to five years of supervised release after the completion of his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Joseph Bylow, 32, of Eagle, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 30 months in prison for counterfeiting, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Bylow to pay restitution in the amount of $644. Bylow pleaded guilty on Nov. 12, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Half-Dozen Men from Inland Empire have been in Federal Court this Year After Being Charged with Child Exploitation Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a scheme to steal and convert hundreds of blank U.S. Postal Service money orders, resulting in nearly $200,000 in losses, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Quick Police Response Led to Defendant's Arrest After Second Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - The former mayor of Clinchco, Virginia in Dickenson County, pled guilty today in Federal Court to fraud charges stemming from her use of town funds used to make improvements and repairs to her personal home while she was Mayor, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Kemmerer, WY- A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 19,293 visitors to Fossil Butte National Monument in 2015 spent $940,800 in communities near the park. That spending supported 12 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $1,008,100.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Shane Scott, age 41, of Coldwater, Michigan, received a sentence of 33 years in federal prison for attempting to coerce or entice a mentally disabled 17-year-old into sex, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Shahid Hassan Muslim, aka “Sharp," 33, was sentenced today to life in prison for operating an extensive sex trafficking enterprise that recruited women and girls - some as young as 16 years old - into prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN VESCERA, 60, of Dana Point, Calif., waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to false advertising and misusing a government seal in connection with the provision of mortgage modification services.
