News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: He Will Face Deportation Proceedings. ALBANY, NEW YORK - Arturo Guzman-Martinez, 23, of Mexico, was sentenced today to time served (63 days in jail), for illegally re-entering the United States. The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Somerset, New Jersey, man today admitted defrauding the Veterans Affairs program by billing for services he had not actually performed, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a grand jury sitting in New Haven returned an indictment today charging THOMAS M. MURTHA, 61, of Newtown, Connecticut, and Birmingham, Michigan, with four counts of wire fraud. MURTHA previously operated a law practice in Bridgeport.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Corrections officers Saquan Williams, Jabar Allen, and Shawn Pettigrew took bribes from federal inmates in their custody in exchange for smuggling drugs and contraband into the jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that U.S. Judge Jay C. Zainey sentenced EVANS LEWIS, age 26, to three life sentences for gang-related offenses that he committed in association with the 39ers gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, announced that THOMAS J. HALLERAN, 36, of Cheshire, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - John Stuart Bruce, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging LUIS FERNANDO CANO-ACOSTA, age 40, of Mexico, DAVID LOPEZ-DIAZ, 26, of Mexico, GABRIEL MELO-CANALES, age 37, of Mexico, MARIO...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Two Cleveland men were indicted on federal firearms charges, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Two men were indicted for allegedly robbing banks in Summit County this summer, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: American small businesses are engines of economic growth.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Joshua William Jackson, 29, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 156 months in federal prison for promoting prostitution, cyberstalking and firearms offenses, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Derek Plomaritis, 26, of Cranston, was ordered detained following his arraignment in U.S. District Court on Tuesday on a 5-count federal indictment charging him with making false statements to licensed firearms dealers and on Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) forms...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement in response to Chairman McCaul’s response to Committee Democrats’ request for hearings on domestic terrorism...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the arrest of MICHAEL SIVA, ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ, RODOLFO SABLON, a/k/a...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Aa grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Matthew Taylor Hadlock, 19, of Cleveland, with receiving and distributing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and possessing child pornography, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a convicted sexual predator Wednesday, who was wanted in Mexico for injury causing death, manslaughter and murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced additional federal charges in alleged multi-million dollar health care fraud conspiracies. Following the indictments of 12 defendants in December 2016, a federal grand jury added four defendants and additional mail fraud and wire fraud charges in connection with parallel conspiracies that executed schemes to fraudulently bill insurance companies for millions of dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A man who allegedly stole approximately $18,120 from a credit union, then took three people hostage during a carjacking made his initial appearance in federal court today, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Appomattox Court House NHS and Appomattox 1865 Foundation to Host Free Concert August 31.
