News published on Federal Newswire in August 2017

News from August 2017


News Release: Federal jury convicted defendant after nearly three weeks of trial.


News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Dana Michelle Lawrence, 43, of Nashua pleaded guilty to fraudulent use of social security number.


News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell today sentenced Michael Pirolo (48, Palm Harbor) to four years and two months in federal prison for wire fraud. As part of his sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $594,000, the proceeds of the criminal conduct. Pirolo pleaded guilty on April 10, 2017.


News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that PAMELA THOMPSON, age 62, of Algiers, was charged yesterday in a one-count Indictment with Theft of Government Funds.


News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Dana Michelle Lawrence, 43, of Nashua pleaded guilty to fraudulent use of social security number.


Yuba County Man Pleads Guilty to Aggravated Identity Theft

News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Earnest Marshall Badman, 31, of Marysville, pleaded guilty today to aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.


News Release: Concord, N.H.-John J. Farley, Acting United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, announced that Victor Alvarado, 29, was sentenced to 64 months in prison and Brandin Melendez, 33, was sentenced to 48 months in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine base, or “crack," in Manchester in 2016 and for firearms crimes.


News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Robert F. Stout (51) and Kasey N. Riley, a/k/a Kasey Stout (33), both of Windermere, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and copyright infringement relating to the sale of illegal activation keys for...


News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that three more defendants have been indicted for their roles in a three-months-long conspiracy that included at least 27 armed robberies, culminating in the armed robbery of a Walgreens in Blue Springs, Mo., in which a suspect was fatally shot by law enforcement officers.


News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Aug. 10, 2017, Ricky Dale Munsey, 48, of Del Rio, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, Senior U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 262 months in federal prison following a conviction for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Tennessee.



High Ranking Los Zetas Plaza Boss Heads to Federal Prison for Multi-Year Drug Conspiracy

News Release: HOUSTON - Jose Manuel Saldivar-Farias aka “Z-31" or “El Borrado" has been ordered to federal prison for his role in a seven-year conspiracy that resulted in an estimated 40,000 kilograms of marijuana imported into the United States from Mexico, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Saldivar-Farias...


News Release: MEEKER, Colo. -The Bureau of Land Management today announced a final decision to remove up to 100 wild horses this fall from private land and other areas outside the designated Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area (HMA) in northwestern Colorado.


Two Sentenced for Crack Distribution and Firearms Offenses

News Release: Concord, N.H.-John J. Farley, Acting United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, announced that Victor Alvarado, 29, was sentenced to 64 months in prison and Brandin Melendez, 33, was sentenced to 48 months in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine base, or “crack," in Manchester in 2016 and for firearms crimes.


News Release: GREENBELT, Maryland - An MS-13 gang member convicted of conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise, murder in aid of racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder in the aid of racketeering was sentenced Aug. 8 to life in prison by a federal judge.


News Release: Earlier today at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, United States District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall sentenced the defendant Arthur Sam to 10 years’ imprisonment for his role in 11 robberies of cell phone stores in Brooklyn and Queens. Sam, also known as “16," had previously pled to Hobbs Act robbery conspiracy. The sentence also included a term of three years of supervised release and $304,179 in restitution.


U.S. Attorney’s Office indicts former Avoyelles Correctional Center warden, wife on fraud charges

News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that the former warden for the Avoyelles Correctional Center and his wife were indicted for fraud.


News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Aug. 10, 2017, Ricky Dale Munsey, 48, of Del Rio, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, Senior U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 262 months in federal prison following a conviction for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Tennessee.


Former Searcy Business Owner Sentenced to Prison for False Statement to Social Security Administration

News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Patrick C. Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Robert G. Feldt, Special Agent-in-Charge, Social Security Administration(SSA), Office of the Inspector General, announced today that Julie Anna DeLarm, formerly known as Julianna England, 51, appeared before United States District Court Judge Billy Roy Wilson and was sentenced to 24 months in prison for making a false statement to the Social Security Administration.


Philadelphia Men Indicted On Heroin Trafficking Charges

News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Tarron Anthony Dennis, age 23, and Warren Jahleel Johnson, age 26, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were indicted on Aug. 10, 2017, by a federal grand jury for multiple drug trafficking crimes.