News from October 2016
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Yuma, AZ - Reclamation’s Yuma Area Office (YAO) is extending the closure of several locations at Imperial Dam to the public. The YAO announced today that access will likely be restricted through the fall of 2017 to accommodate ongoing construction efforts at the facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was sentenced on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, in U.S. District Court in Worcester on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that a federal jury has convicted Alexis Javier Centeno-Baez, 22, of Buffalo, NY, of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 500 grams or more of cocaine and attempt to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: The owner of a Tampa, Florida, home health agency was convicted by a federal jury for her participation in a multimillion-dollar health care fraud and money laundering scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: FBI Arrests Cyber Crime Suspect. On October 5, 2016, the El Paso Division of the FBI arrested 40 year old Joe Venzor in his residence without incident following an investigation into allegations of unauthorized intrusion upon protected computers. He is charged by a criminal complaint with knowingly causing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - The National Center for Disaster Fraud (“NCDF") announced today its efforts to combat disaster fraud related to the historic flooding event in the Baton Rouge region in August 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A man who allegedly executed a scheme that defrauded Regions Bank and other financial institutions of more than $200,000 has been indicted on federal charges. He is considered a fugitive at this time. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal jury sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., returned a verdict yesterday finding Amado Acevedo-Gonzalez, 36, a Mexican national, and Yolanda Rodriguez, 50, a U.S. citizen who formerly resided in Mexico, guilty on drug trafficking offenses and money laundering charges after a four-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Defendants tied to the “Nauti-Block" drug trafficking organization take down in April 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch launches national Community Policing Week with visits to three bay area law enforcement academies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston doctor has been ordered to federal prison for engaging in a conspiracy to defraud Medicare of more than $6.6 million, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury convicted Dr. Leonard Kibert, 65, and his medical clinic administrator, Tsolak Gevorgyan, 30, of all 41 and 44 counts as charged, respectively, following a three-week trial in February 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Donna Demps guilty of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. She faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for Feb. 3, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: OCT 07 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Christopher Chavez, 40, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Hamza Kolsuz, 43, a Turkish national, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his attempted exportation of weapons parts to the Republic of Turkey in violation of the Arms Export Control Act.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: ELK CREEK, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has scheduled annual recreation area closures at Stony Gorge Reservoir from Oct. 17, 2016, through March 31, 2017. Recreational areas will reopen April 1, 2017 (weather permitting). These annual closures allow Reclamation to perform necessary maintenance tasks and provide time for natural resource restoration.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Gulfport, Mississippi. - Greg L. Dodd, 54, of Gulfport, pled guilty in U.S. District Court on October 6, 2016 to using the internet to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Special Agent in Charge Raymond Parmer of Homeland Security Investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Eduardo Li pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud, and wire fraud conspiracy in connection with his receipt of bribes in exchange for his awarding contracts for the media and marketing rights to FIFA World Cup qualifier matches and his authorization...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Secretary of the Interior (DOI) Sally Jewell is developing controversial plans to cordon off approximately 10 million acres of federal lands located in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming from mineral development. The withdrawals are one plank of the Obama administration's...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Joshua Cline, 23, of Fairmont, West Virginia, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: FBI and the Grove City Police Department Seek the Public’s Assistance in Identifying Grove City Bank Robber.
