News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Walter Ray Hamilton and James Robert Jones, a/k/a Sean Jones, were sentenced for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana for their roles in a drug trafficking organization that operated out of a house located approximately 350 feet from Chamblee Charter High School, in Chamblee, Georgia. The organization used the house in this residential neighborhood to distribute multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine and marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that XIANFENG ZUO, 38, of Shenzhen, China, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 15 months of imprisonment for conspiring to sell counterfeits of sophisticated integrated circuits to a purchaser in the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: On November 15 at the Bear Valley Visitor Center, from 11 am to 1 pm, Point Reyes National Seashore will host an electronic waste (e-waste) recycling collection, joining thousands of local organizers holding recycling events across the country to celebrate America Recycles Day, the only nationally recognized day dedicated to promoting and celebrating recycling in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Juan Vasquez, 53, of Providence, the mastermind behind a long-running scheme to use the stolen identities of more than 400 individuals on fraudulent tax returns resulting in the receipt of more than $2.6 million in fraudulent tax refunds, was sentenced today to 6 years in federal prison to be followed by 3 years supervised release. Vasquez ran the scheme out of his business, the former Dominican Supermarket in Pawtucket.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Receipt of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, Pedro Rafael Gonzalez-Zazueta, 39, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 88 months’ imprisonment. Gonzalez-Zazueta had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on the Paris Agreement becoming international law less than a year after nearly 200 countries formalized the agreement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Defendant Admitted to Preparing Twenty-Seven False Returns, Netting His Clients more than $100,000 in Unearned Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Defendants Shipped More Than $780,000 Drugs into United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Today, former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee Rodolfo Vázquez-Soto was found guilty on all counts of fraud associated with Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP), announced United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez Vélez.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: FBI Arrests Individual in SunTrust Bank Branch Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage woman was sentenced yesterday in federal court by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason for her role in a narcotics trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - United States Attorney David J. Hickton released the following statement today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CRAIG LARSEN, 54, of Avon, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for embezzling more than $200,000 from his employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Genesis Calvin Moore, 25, of Hampton, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for charges related to theft of government property, interstate transportation of stolen motor vehicles, and possession of stolen motor vehicles. Moore was also ordered to pay over $80,000 in restitution to the U.S. Navy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Wounded Knee, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on Oct. 26, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT - The weather station in West Glacier recorded the rainiest month on record in October. Glacier National Park has collected weather data since 1914. The weather station is a partnership project with the National Weather Service, the Regional Climate Center, and the National Centers for Environmental Information.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Brent Kopenhaver, 61, of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, was charged by Indictment with three counts of filing false tax returns and two counts of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Rosenaldo Benitez, Jr., age 37, of Mission, Texas, was sentenced yesterday to 120 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Chief Judge P.K. Holmes, III presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the filing of a federal criminal complaint charging Oliver Charles Halliday Gee (34, Playa Del Carmen, Mexico), with assault or intimidation of a flight crew. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
