News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Used Stolen IDs to Seek More Than $2 Million in Fraudulent Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Two Californians, a former medical doctor and his business partner, who were indicted on July 5, 2017 for a $7.1 million Medicare health care fraud scheme that occurred at three Las Vegas hospices, made their initial appearances in federal court today, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced Jorge Guerrero-Torres (29, Orlando) to 40 years in federal prison for production and possession of child pornography. The Court also ordered him to forfeit the cellphone that he had used to commit the offense. A federal jury found Guerrero-Torres guilty on May 16, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced Iran Dennis “Denny" Foster, 46, of Fresno, today to 18 months in prison for conspiring to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute marijuana, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Norma Duhamel, 71, of Saco, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to two years of probation for theft of mail. She was also ordered to pay $1,230 in restitution. Duhamel pleaded guilty on June 2, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Aug. 11, 2017, Colton James Klein, 22, from Harlan, Iowa, was sentenced heather Jean Reekrby United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 120 months in prison followed by ten years of supervised release for receipt of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The former manager of Team Members Childcare Center (TMCC), a childcare center owned by the Mescalero Apache Tribe and operated at the Inn of the Mountain Gods (IMG) on behalf of its employees that require childcare pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a theft of government money charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Rafael Torres-Armenta (Torres), 30, a native and citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to three years and one month in prison for conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana in connection with a large-scale cultivation operation that impacted a prehistoric site, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Rorn Sorn (34, St. Petersburg) to six years and five months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He pleaded guilty on April 24, 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - Six Abilene residents are now in custody on federal drug distribution charges and more arrests are anticipated.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jason Jimenez, 39, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man caught with heroin in January 2015 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Daniel Justin Watts, 32, entered his guilty plea to a single-count indictment charging him with possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Scott Linnell, age 36, of Greer, was sentenced today in Greenville for possession of child pornography, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252A. United States District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks, of Charleston, sentenced Linnell to 82 months in the Bureau of Prisons and ordered that he be under lifetime supervision.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: FT. WORTH, Texas - David Piper, Jr., 52, of Fort Worth, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 235 months in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced Special Agent-in-Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the DEA, and U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Florida Resident Sentenced to Prison for Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A gang member who helped manage a coalition of three rival street gangs in Northeast Los Angeles that were brought together by orders issued by a member of the Mexican Mafia pleaded guilty today to federal charges and admitted being a primary supplier of narcotics to the criminal enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: A man who robbed a bank, possessed a gun as a felon, and sold heroin causing an overdose, all within the span of one year, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON Ky. - A Lexington man, who pled guilty in May of 2017, was sentenced in federal court today, to five months in prison and five months home confinement. He was also ordered to pay a $5,500 fine.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Rob Portman of Ohio, and Tom Carper of Delaware are requesting that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) refer to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and its Office of the Inspector General (OIG) details...
