News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Cynthia Cave, age 45, of Mount Pleasant, was sentenced in federal court in Charleston for three counts of Filing False Tax Returns, in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1). United States District Judge Richard Mark Gergel, of Charleston, sentenced Cave to 6 months imprisonment followed by 6 months home detention.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service has announced the fee free days for 2018. On these days, the public is invited to experience all national parks, including Mesa Verde National Park, without entrance fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Nathan Crowder, age 29, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was charged on Nov. 14, 2017, in a superseding indictment with four additional counts of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Yardley, Pennsylvania, man today admitted his role in an insider trading conspiracy that profited from yet-to-be public information concerning a pharmaceutical company that developed a drug to treat cancer, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Yardley, Pennsylvania, man today admitted his role in an insider trading conspiracy that profited from yet-to-be public information concerning a pharmaceutical company that developed a drug to treat cancer, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Lincoln Historians, a group of middle school history buffs, will tell stories about colonial Christmas as part of their History in Action Project for the Tar Heel Junior Historian Association Annual Contest. The stories were researched and written by the students and will be told by students who will dress in colonial era clothing.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - Following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York’s Cultural Property, Arts and Antiquities (CPAA) group, in coordination with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office (DANY), three marble statues originally excavated...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Ingrid McBride Rich to four years in prison for presenting a false claim to an agency of the United States, and for obstructing and impeding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the collection of taxes. As part of her sentence, the Court also ordered her to pay restitution to the IRS in the amount of $510,222.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: CONCORD - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Justin Gauthier, 39, formerly of Northfield, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to charges that he unlawfully possessed methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, and carfentanil with the intent to distribute and that he unlawfully possessed firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Wayne Davidson, age 24, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Dec. 14, 2017, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that four defendants have pled guilty to participating in two bank burglaries. In April and May 2016, MICHAEL MAZZARA, CHARLES KERRIGAN, and ANTHONY MASCUZZIO, assisted by CHRISTOPHER KERRIGAN, stole more than $5 million in cash, jewelry, collectables, and other valuables from the banks’ vaults and safe deposit boxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Yordani Ramirez Salgado, 28, of Miami, Florida, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities this week arrested a Bellflower woman on federal charges that she contracted with an FBI informant to kill her boyfriend in exchange for a portion of the proceeds she expected to collect from a life insurance policy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Carl N. Hooker, of Moundsville, West Virginia, was arraigned today in federal court after being indicted by a federal grand jury on December 5, 2017 on drug charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Isaac Q. Coleman, 25, of Gulfport, Mississippi, was sentenced yesterday to seven months in federal prison and five months of home confinement, followed by 2 years of supervised release, for knowingly making a false statement in connection with the purchase of a firearm, announced U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities this week arrested a Bellflower woman on federal charges that she contracted with an FBI informant to kill her boyfriend in exchange for a portion of the proceeds she expected to collect from a life insurance policy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bilal Ahmed, 45, a former dentist who practiced in Northwest Washington, was sentenced today to 16 ½ years in prison for sexually assaulting five former dental patients and one former employee and improperly touching another former employee. The victims, all males, were attacked in separate incidents between 2010 and 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 45-year-old Houston man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Hyde Park, NY - The National Park Service announced today that the public will be invited to experience all national parks, including the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt NHS, the Eleanor Roosevelt NHS, and Vanderbilt Mansion NHS, without entrance fees, on four days in 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management released the final Environmental Assessment and Decision Record for a lease modification for the King II coal mine near Hesperus, Colo. The decision could allow GCC Energy, LLC to expand its existing coal lease by 950 acres.
