News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Lindsay Kneff, 36, of Virginia Beach, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on six counts of wire fraud, six counts of mail fraud, one count of falsely altering Postal Service money orders and three counts of engaging in monetary transactions in criminally derived property.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior United States District Judge G. Kendall Sharp has sentenced Lakisha Abney (33, Washington, D.C.) to eight years and one month in federal prison for conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States. She pleaded guilty on July 20, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia and the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Charleston Regional Office announced today the location of collection sites for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: Guillermo Rodriguez-Sanchez, a 42-year-old resident of Mexico City, faces a mandatory minimum sentence of at least ten years and up to life in federal prison after a jury convicted him late yesterday afternoon of importation cocaine and heroin, announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.;...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Rowy De Jesus Vasquez (26, Altamonte Springs) today pleaded guilty to sex trafficking of a minor. He faces a penalty of 10 years, up to life, in federal prison. Vasquez was indicted on December 9, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced today’s sentencing of BRANDON LICCIARDI and ERIK J. NUNEZ, who were charged along with former New Orleans Saint DARREN SHARPER, in a conspiracy to drug and rape women.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Matthew Channon, 39, and his wife Brandi Channon, 37, both of Albuquerque, N.M., were sentenced today for their convictions on conspiracy and wire fraud charges arising out of a sophisticated scheme to defraud an office supply business out of more than $100,000. Matthew Channon was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: Palm Beach County resident pleads guilty to production of child pornography and enticement of a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Karl and Sorina Morrison, both 59, of Kitchener, Ontario, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to import and export controlled substances and analogues and attempt to export controlled substances and analogues. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for a more than $1.1 million investment fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Antawan Hudson (31, Tampa) to 30 years in federal prison for sex trafficking minors. On Sept. 28, 2016, Hudson’s brother, Maurice Williams (26, Tampa), was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for sex trafficking minors. Hudson pleaded guilty on the first day of trial and a federal jury found Williams guilty on May 20, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that LORRIE LYNN ROGERSON, age 57, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles for defrauding $430,490 from the Pediatric Surgery of Louisiana (“PSL"), a group of Baton Rouge physicians who specialize...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: Prosecution is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael Kimball, age 28, of Plattsburgh, New York, pled guilty today to distributing, transporting, and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: Rock Island, Ill. - Gregory F. Young, 37, of South Bend, Ind., was sentenced today for possessing firearms and ammunition as a felon, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis, Central District of Illinois. U.S. District Judge Sara L. Darrow ordered Young to serve a term of 84 months in federal prison.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
Release: Washington -FAS Program Announcement FAS-ESR-108-16, issued at 9:00 a.m. on Oct. 20, which announced export sales of 114,000 metric tons of soft white wheat for delivery in the 2016/2017 marketing year to unknown destinations was issued in error. The correct announcement is as follows.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Syed Tariq Ali, St. Louis, Missouri, was arrested this morning on a two-count indictment alleging false statements with respect to federal housing program and bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., father and son pleaded guilty in federal court today to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: For the first time, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used neutron beams to create holograms of large solid objects, revealing details about their interiors in ways that ordinary laser light-based visual holograms cannot.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: Defendants Also Ordered to Pay $96,000 in Restitution to Office Max/Office Depot and to Forfeit $105,191 to the United States.
