News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Robert McCloud, 37, most recently of Augusta, Ga., has been indicted for allegedly using forged deeds and fake driver’s licenses to defraud homeowners, buyers, and others in a real estate scam, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Andrew W. Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - An Inwood, West Virginia woman was sentenced today to five years probation for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: MONTE VISTA, Colo. - The San Luis Valley Field Office in conjunction with the Interagency Fire Management Unit will be conducting prescribed burns at Baxter Peak and Blanca Wetlands this winter. Depending on weather and fuel moisture conditions, the prescribed burns could begin in early December.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced former U.S. Congresswoman Corrine Brown (71, Jacksonville) to 5 years in federal prison for her role in a conspiracy and fraud scheme involving a fraudulent scholarship charity. She also was ordered to serve 3 years of supervised release and to pay $515,166.86 in restitution to her victims, including $62,650.99 in tax restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A Mexican man has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge for his role in importing methamphetamine into the United States, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Brennan Lee Sumatzkuku, 23, of Tuba City, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 36 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Sumatzkuku had previously pleaded guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A 37-year-old man from Dallas, Laroy Damont Johnson, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to serve a total of 96 months in federal prison for drug and firearm offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: Defendant Perpetuated Scheme by Stealing Mail from USPS Collection Boxes at U.S. Post Offices in Albuquerque.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released final environmental documents for a pilot project for Widren Water District that would allow the district to convey up to 1,000 acre-feet of reverse osmosis treated groundwater through the Delta-Mendota Canal and potentially store it in San Luis Reservoir. The pilot project is part of a larger effort aimed at reducing dissolved minerals like salt and selenium in a 97,000 acre area known as the Grassland Drainage Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the arrest and filing of a criminal complaint charging Bernandino Gawala Bolatete (69, Jacksonville) with knowingly receiving and possessing a silencer not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: A man who stole a gun from a licensed Waterloo firearms dealer was sentenced on Nov. 30, 2017, to more than three years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Wheeling, West Virginia man was sentenced today to 32 months incarceration for cocaine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A LaSalle County physician admitted in federal court today that he illegally dispensed prescription medications, including opioids, to patients in exchange for cash or sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: A Geauga County man pleaded guilty to two counts related to possessing videos of children being raped and sexually assaulted, U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - William Cafarella was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to repay $201,335.25 as a result of a fraud and kickback scheme he committed in 2011 through 2013 while General Manager of West County Honda in Ellisville, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that, Rafael Delacruz, a/k/a “Simba," 55, previously of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced on Friday to serve twelve years in federal prison for selling heroin and fentanyl in southern New Hampshire.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Charles Town, West Virginia man was sentenced today to 12 months and one day incarceration for unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - Six Texas residents pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Guillermo Garcia to a human smuggling operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 26-year-old El Cenizo man has entered a guilty plea for his role in a conspiracy to smuggle undocumented aliens, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Jose Francisco Morales Jr. is the last of 13 to be convicted in the conspiracy in which illegal aliens were smuggled past Border Patrol checkpoints between September 2015 and June 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - President Trump is expected to announce at 2:30 p.m. EST today that he will attempt to drastically shrink Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument through a presidential order with no legal basis. President Trump will likely move forward with...
