News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Jersey City, New Jersey, man was convicted by a federal jury today for his role as a heroin and cocaine supplier to a large-scale drug trafficking organization that operated in Ocean and Monmouth Counties and elsewhere in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal jury found a man from Patterson guilty in a scheme to use stolen identities to file false tax returns and pocket refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: DAYTON - Shellie Woods, 42, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 300 months in prison for conspiracy to commit kidnapping as well as robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Marcel Lehel Lazar, 44, of Arad, Romania, a hacker who used the online moniker “Guccifer," pleaded guilty today to unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Following an eight-day trial, a jury before United States District Judge Jose E. Martinez convicted Rafael Duran, a former police officer with the Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD), of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and seven counts of wire fraud. Duran had been employed as an officer with the MDPD from May 1994 until March 2016, when the MDPD terminated him following his 2015 indictment in this case.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On May 24, 2016, Brandon Douglas Shanahan, 22, of Sweetwater, Tenn., was arrested and charged with intent to extort money and other things of value from a female victim through a Snapchat communication which threatened to injure her reputation.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida - Everglades National Park and the South Florida National Parks Trust (SFNPT) launched a campaign today to restore the park's Flamingo Visitor Center with support from American Express, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the public through the Partners in Preservation program.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park Announces.
By State Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the reply from the State Department Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to Rep. Engel’s March letters, which coincided with the release of a politically loaded report regarding the email practices of past Secretaries of State...
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: It’s springtime and nēnē have begun to reappear in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, after being less visible since fall and winter, when they hunker down to nest, raise goslings and grow a new set of flight feathers (molt).
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Octavio Colin, 34, of Cleburne, Texas, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 240 months (20 years) in federal prison, following his guilty plea earlier this year to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Ukrainian man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for passport fraud and social security fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 37-year-old Robstown man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of distribution of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jorge Betancourt, of Robstown, pleaded guilty March 1, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: In Del Rio today Felipe Carmona-Rodriguez, 51, of Eagle Pass, Texas was sentenced on federal narcotics trafficking charges announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph Arabit, Houston Division, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, with Ranking Member Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) applauded the 14-0 approval of the DHS Accountability Act during the committee business meeting Wednesday.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of TIMOTHY PAUL OWENS, 55, to 18 months in federal prison for obstructing an examination by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (Federal Reserve Board). OWENS was indicted on Dec. 15, 2014, and pleaded guilty on July 30, 2015. He was sentenced today before Judge Ann D. Montgomery in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage husband and wife were indicted by a federal grand jury on 14 charges of wire fraud and a scheme to defraud. In a separate indictment, the husband was charged with narcotics and firearms crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ELVIRA DUTHU DUPLANTIS, age 51, of Houma, pled guilty today for theft of mail.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad announced today that three Milwaukee men were indicted for the July 15, 2015 armed carjacking near Wick Field in Milwaukee. Sean Harvey (age: 24), Broderick Moore, (age: 23), and Robert Ellis, (age: 25), were charged with one count of motor vehicle robbery and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that ESDGAR AVILA, age 27, of Durant, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 72 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM AND AMMUNITION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922 (g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
