News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former teacher with the Santa Ana School District who traveled to the Philippines to engage in sex with two girls and produced videos of the abuse has been convicted in federal court of seven child exploitation offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: A 67 year-old Detroit man was taken into custody after a criminal complaint was filed in federal court charging him with sex trafficking, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia - Skip the long lines and crowded stores on a free hike in New River Gorge National River on Friday, Feb. 25, 2016. Hike 3.2 miles (round trip) on the Long Point Trail with a National Park Service ranger and a community captain from Active Southern West Virginia to #OptOutside...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: FBI Offers $10,000 Reward for Information in Annapolis Murder Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney, Deborah R. Gilg, announced that on Nov. 18, 2016, Cody M. Lacefield, 22, of Lincoln, was sentenced to three years on probation for misprision of a felony. The three-year probation term includes 90 days of home confinement. Lacefield was also ordered to pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: North Dakota Man Convicted of Government Property Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Shawn Hilliard, 30, of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for his role as a ringleader of a nationwide bank fraud organization which stole more than $1.3 million from customers’ accounts. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge C. Darnell Jones, II, ordered 3 years of supervised release, $1.3 million in restitution, and an $800 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Zargham Bukhari, 22, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to sex trafficking of children, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), George P. Beach II, the Superintendent of the New York State Police (“NYSP"), George N. Longworth, Commissioner...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Defendant Used False and Fraudulent Promises to Recruit Foreign Students to Further a Prostitution and Erotic Massage Enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Illinois Man Sentenced to 40 Months in Federal Prison for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Eleven men have been indicted in connection with a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking and money laundering ring operating between Massachusetts and California.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Florida Man Convicted of Sex Trafficking in Connection with Human Trafficking Scheme Targeting Foreign University Students.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 165,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tyrone Pennick, 40, of Amherst, NY, and Geneva Smith, 30, of Buffalo, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 500 grams or more of cocaine. The charge carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum of 40 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles doctor has been convicted of federal “structuring" charges for making cash deposits totaling nearly a half million dollars in an effort to circumvent federal reporting requirements. Washington Bryan II, 48, of Westwood, was found guilty of 29 counts of structuring Thursday afternoon by a jury in United States District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Mark F. Friend, 62, of Stockton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to two years and four months in prison and ordered to pay $1,889,379 in restitution for conspiracy to commit bank fraud in relation to a mortgage fraud scheme, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Earl Worthy, 41, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for his role in a fraudulent tax refund scheme. The court also ordered Worthy to pay $159,628 in restitution to the IRS. Worthy pleaded guilty on May 9, 2016, to conspiracy to...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration proposes a $240,000 civil penalty against Dean Baldwin Painting of Bulverde, Texas for numerous violations at its Goodyear, Ariz. facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Kiristien M. Joyner, 27, of Carbondale, and Marshall W. Duty, 58, of Dongola, were indicted on November 8, 2016, in a three-count superseding indictment charging methamphetamine violations, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. Joyner and Duty are each charged with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Joyner and Duty are each also charged with one count of unlawful distribution of methamphetamine.
