News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Hawke Anthony Coffman, 26, of Ridgeley, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 12 months incarceration for illegally possessing a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID ORTIZ JUAREZ, 35, a citizen of Guatemala who recently resided in Hartford, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to approximately seven and one-half months of imprisonment, time already served, and two years of supervised release, for illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd sentenced Mary Williams, 70, of Fresno, today to one year in prison for embezzling from a pension plan, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Judge Drozd ordered Williams to pay $509,405 in restitution to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: Defendant admitted to writing a fraudulent prescription to illegally obtain 120 oxycodone pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Robert Lowe, 35, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with depredation of government property. The charge carries a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $1,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: A Georgia man was arrested on federal charges that he sold heroin in the Youngstown area, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: Summerville, South Carolina- The United States Attorney’s Office, the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services; SC Works; SC Vocational Rehabilitation; SC Department of Social Services; and the US Probation Office are continuing their statewide partnership to help individuals with prior criminal backgrounds secure employment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Marwin Uriah Wilson, 28, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 36 months incarceration for unlawful possession of a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - On Friday, a federal jury convicted five former owners of PremierTox, a clinical laboratory in Russell Springs, Kentucky, of seventeen counts of health care fraud, each. The defendants were acquitted on various other counts that alleged related conduct. The seventeen counts of conviction...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey R. Amundson announced today that STEVEN F. ANGLE, age 61, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Shelly D. Dick to three counts of filing false tax returns, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(1)...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: Insurance companies and patients who believe they may be potential victims encouraged to notify Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: Today, Reps. Bobby Scott (VA-03), John Conyers (MI-13), Bennie Thompson (MS-02), and Zoe Lofgren (CA-19), the Ranking Members of the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, respectively, sent a letter to Secretary of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man today admitted his role in a crack cocaine distribution conspiracy operating in Camden, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Juan Carlos Lopez, 32, of Lake Elsinore; Rafael Torres-Armenta (Torres), 30; and Javier Garcia-Castaneda (Garcia), 38, both of Michoacán, Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana in connection with a large-scale...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Kimberly Redders, 53, Viroqua, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to time-served, plus two-years of supervised release, for bank embezzlement. Redders was also ordered to pay a $2,500 fine. Redders pleaded guilty to the offense on January 6, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - Everyone is invited to participate in the free guided hikes, “Coffee Talks" and ‘Ike Hana No‘eau Hawaiian cultural programs in the Kahuku Unit of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, from April through June 2017. Visitors can also explore Kahuku on their own on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 48-year-old California resident has entered a guilty plea to trafficking in counterfeit labels and packaging, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Michael Runco, age 56, of Olyphant, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information with failing to pay the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employment taxes withheld from his employees’ paychecks and filing a false personal income tax return omitting substantial personal income in 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: BRUNSWICK GA- Ronnie Music, Jr., 46, of Waycross, Georgia, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 21 years in federal prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy and for possessing a cache of firearms as a convicted felon. On July 22, 2016, Music pled guilty in federal court to conspiring to traffick large amounts of Methamphetamine and to being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A dentist who formerly lived and worked in Temecula pleaded guilty this afternoon to possession of child pornography, including videos of children under the age of 10 engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
