News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Cleveland - Twenty people were indicted for their role in a conspiracy that brought large amounts of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine into Greater Cleveland from Chicago and Yonkers, New York, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: A former Cleveland Housing Network official was sentenced to 30 months in prison for taking bribes and steering contracts, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Barbara Barr to 36 months and 1 day in federal prison for theft of government funds and aggravated identity theft. The Court also entered a forfeiture money judgment in the amount of $8,000, representing the proceeds of the offenses. Barr pleaded guilty on July 28, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that five individuals have pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute heroin. Edward McKenzie (40, Tampa), George Perdigon, A/K/A “Lee," (48, Tampa), and Jesse Greer, A/K/A “Alex," (40, Tampa) each face a mandatory minimum sentence...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Twenty people were indicted for their roles in a conspiracy that brought large amounts of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine into Greater Cleveland from Chicago and Yonkers, New York, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Wounded Knee, South Dakota, woman convicted of Dispensing of Intoxicants in Indian Country was sentenced on October 5, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - An accounting clerk in the Food and Nutrition Services Division of the Brownsville Independent School District (BISD) has been ordered to prison for stealing cash proceeds from concessions sales at four schools for nearly six years, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Leticia Arreola, 39, of Los Fresnos, entered a guilty plea Wednesday, June 1, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Pedro Cruz, 40, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 97 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Former CEO and COO of major nursing home chain charged in over $16 million fraud and kickback scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN THOMAS MINTER, also known as “Louch" and “Louch Ramsey," 28, of East Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A former accountant with a Huntsville non-profit corporation that contracted with the government to place people with disabilities into government jobs pleaded guilty today in federal court to defrauding the organization and the Internal Revenue Service, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Lionel C. Carter, a/k/a Skip, 60, of Wellsville, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 50 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine. The charge carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Jose Maria Calderon, 48, of Springdale, Arkansas, was sentenced to serve 65 months in federal prison Wednesday for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. The sentence was announced by Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management will host an open house Oct. 21 from 10 a.m. to noon at its new Redding Office, 6640 Lockheed Drive.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: The National Park Service is planning six prescribed fires this fall at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Approximately 850 acres are expected to be burned.Fire is used as a tool for the park’s long-term restoration and hazard fuel reduction efforts.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Honolulu - A hand-sewn Japanese flag that once flew over the ship where Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto gave the order to attack Pearl Harbor will be donated to WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument on Thursday, October 13.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Florida Fresh Tropicals LLC, Miami, Fla., for failure to pay for produce.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Kevin John Weinreis, 50, of Tensed, Idaho was sentenced yesterday for making a false statement in a passport application and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill sentenced Weinreis to 26 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Weinreis pleaded guilty on July 28, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: (SYRACUSE - - Derrick Wilson, 36, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced today to serve a 336 (28 years) term of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release. The sentence was announced jointly by Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, New York Division, Drug Enforcement (DEA), United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, and Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler.
