News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - A federal indictment was unsealed yesterday charging Richard Paul Underwood, 65, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Colin P. Purcell, 56, of Simpsonville, Kentucky, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud in connection with a $15 million oil investment Ponzi scheme. Both Defendants were arrested by Special Agents of the United States Secret Service.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Mesa Verde National Park is home to a wide range of birds of prey and the park has a long history of researching and managing them. Learn about these magnificent birds that call Mesa Verde home on Friday, Sept. 1, 2017, at 7:00 pm at the Visitor and Research Center, located at the entrance of Mesa...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced the Indictment of three Cuban nationals, charging them all with conspiracy to commit access device fraud, and two defendants with access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today issued the following statement after President Trump formally classified the opioid epidemic as a national emergency.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Charles F. Denno, 67, of East Providence, a former finance director for the Providence Plan, was sentenced today to 33 months in federal prison for devising and executing a scheme in which he fraudulently converted $742,190.69 of Providence Plan funds for his personal use.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, G. F. Peterman, III, announced that, on Wednesday, August 9, 2017, former Bibb County School District Superintendent Romain Dallemand, age 49, of Naples, Florida, entered his guilty plea to a one-count information charging him with filing...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
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...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: A Washington man was sentenced to eight years in prison for transporting a minor across state lines for the purpose of engaging in commercial sex, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JASON GALANIS was sentenced today by the Honorable Ronnie Abrams to 173 months for defrauding a Native American tribal entity and numerous pension fund investors of tens of millions of dollars in connection with the issuance of bonds by the tribal entity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Felix Shepard, Jr. Admits Illegally Distributing Oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a grand jury has returned an indictment charging Ryan Elton Devore (30, Satsuma) with one count of transporting and two counts of possessing child pornography. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 5 years, up to 60 years, in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Allegedly made false declarations about the destruction of evidence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - Nine men and three women are in custody on allegations of conspiracy and sex trafficking of children among other charges in two separate, but related indictments, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Defendant Recruited Teenagers For His Robbery Crew.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Danny Castillon, doing business as Harvest Pro, satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ROMAN WILLIAMS, age 36, of Pensacola, Florida, was charged yesterday in a two-count Bill of Information with theft of government funds and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jacob F. Medina, 33, Madison, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 150 months in federal prison for possessing child pornography. This prison term will be followed by a 20-year period of supervised release. Medina pleaded guilty to this offense on March 16, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina John Stuart Bruce announced today that alleged members and associates of the Sex, Money, Murder (SMM) Scotland Neck-area Bloods street gang, have been indicted for conspiring to distribute and possessing with the intent to distribute heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Tuesday, August 8, 2017, shortly after 3 p.m. a United States Park Police officer in full uniform was attempting to make contact with multiple individuals who were observed illegally selling water on the National Mall. As the officer approached to give warnings, the violators fled. Nearby officers responded and attempted to stop the two individuals in the area of 9th Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Dion Antwain Kinnear, age 29, and Kristian Torres, age 31, both prisoners at United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg (USP Lewisburg), were indicted separately on Aug. 10, 2017, by a federal grand jury for possessing weapons in prison.
