News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: FBI Requesting the Public’s Assistance. Updated May 25, 2015: This individual is in custody. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Detroit Police Department are seeking information on the location of Angelo Allen. Allen, also known as “Two Head," is wanted in connection with a carjacking and shooting...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 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, today announced that ALIONIS PEREZ, 40, a citizen of Cuba last residing in New Jersey, and YOANDRYS CUE, 30, a citizen...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Defendant Incorporated More Than 5,000 Shell Companies in Belize and the West Indies to Facilitate Numerous Securities and Tax Fraud Schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A 66-year-old former ex-vice president of the Houston Police Federal Credit Union has been ordered to federal prison for embezzlement that occurred for approximately 18 years, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Cheryl Vickers was charged in a criminal information that was filed Dec. 7, 2015. She pleaded guilty Jan. 20, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on May 23, 2016, Jonathan Nisbett, 24, of Newark, New Jersey was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison after his guilty plea to charges that he distributed heroin. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss also ordered that Nisbett serve three years of supervised release following his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 31-year-old Mexican citizen residing in Pharr has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions of possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number and conspiring to export defense articles to Mexico without authorization, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jose Abraham Benavides-Cira pleaded guilty July 31, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Tunisia Phillips-Lark, also known as "Kesha" and "Nish Nish," of Muskegon, Michigan was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for perjury, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell imposed a three-year term of supervised release that will commence once Phillips-Lark is released from imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Fayette County resident has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of 10 years on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: A felon who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced March 29, 2016, to 15 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Defendant Schemed To Hide From the IRS The $130 Million Sale Of a Petroleum Products Company He Owned, And Used His Attorneys To Provide False Information To IRS During Subsequent Audit.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 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, today announced that ALIONIS PEREZ, 40, a citizen of Cuba last residing in New Jersey, and YOANDRYS CUE, 30, a citizen...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former financial comptroller of a North Kansas City, Mo., business was sentenced in federal court today for a wire fraud scheme in which he embezzled more than $247,000 from his employer over five years.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Scheme claimed more than $6.6 million in fraudulent tax refunds.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has prepared for public review an Environmental Assessment on providing $447,415 from the Central Valley Project Conservation. Program (CVPCP) to River Partners. The Proposed Action would restore and enhance native habitat on 175 acres of historic riparian...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on May 23, 2016, Jade Shilo OldRock, 42, of Fort Totten, ND, was sentenced before US District Judge Ralph R. Erickson after a federal jury found him guilty on July 17, 2015, of Sexual Abuse of a Child and Commission of a Federal Sex Offense by a...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Joel Elias Gonzalez, 53, formerly of Franklin, N.C. was sentenced yesterday to 151 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for trafficking large quantities of crystal methamphetamine, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Gonzalez pleaded guilty in February 2016 to one count of distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - After a trial lasting more than two-weeks, a federal jury has convicted two Mexican citizens on federal charges related to the murder of Southlake, Texas, resident, Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa, at Southlake Town Square on May 22, 2013, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green of the Middle District of Louisiana announced today the unsealing of a federal grand jury indictment against five members of a heroin trafficking network operating in the St. Roch neighborhood of New Orleans. As detailed below, the indictment charges the defendants with serious drug trafficking offenses.
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Last month, with support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy, I had the privilege of taking my students from the Buckland School to the Alaska Rural Energy Conference in Fairbanks. Students presented to conference attendees and watched presentations from national, regional, state, and local energy experts that tied into the clean energy issues they are studying as part of the Alaska Humanities Forum Sister School Exchange program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today that Merwin J. Wynos, Jr., (age: 28) of Neopit, Wisconsin, was sentenced to three years in federal prison by Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach. The sentence also included three years of supervised release and restitution for damaged or destroyed property of a convenience store.
