News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd sentenced Ronald Castanon, 21, of Pinedale, to 20 years in prison for three counts of interference with commerce by robbery, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Susana Ceballos, 36, of Roswell, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 60 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for her conviction on methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment today against Jeffrey Scott Davis, 59, of Placerville, and Glen Michael Martinka, 67, of Phoenix, Arizona, charging them with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and mail fraud, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County man who was previously sentenced in 2007 in connection with a scheme to defraud women over telephone dating services and in 2015 for violating the conditions of his federal supervised release admitted today to traveling in order to launder money in connection with a similar scheme, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -Grand Canyon National Park annual passes are available for purchase for 2017. This annual pass provides free entrance for a year exclusively to Grand Canyon National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Paramus, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to one year of probation for helping funnel $80,000 in campaign contributions from a foreign source to the joint fundraising committee of the President of the United States during the 2012 presidential election, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By State Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today spoke with Mexico's Chargé d'affaires in the United States Ana Luisa Fajer. Representative Engel reiterated the importance of the close friendship between the United States and Mexico and expressed...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Meade County, Kentucky, man on the Kentucky Sex Offender Registry, was sentenced in United States District Court, by District Judge David J. Hale, to 15 years in prison followed by a life term of Supervised Release, for transporting and possessing child pornography announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - An Ohio woman, who conspired with others to provide an inmate at the United States Penitentiary (USP) Lee, in Lee County, Virginia with a prohibited object, pled guilty today to a federal conspiracy charge, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Scott Leslie Glover, 54, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Feb. 1, 2017, for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Glover was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada. He received 46 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found three brothers from Cape Coral, Gorge Antonio Vargas (34), Javier Martin Villar (47), and Daniel Vargas (32), and an associate, Zacharias Abab Aguedo (36, Fort Myers), guilty of conspiracy to possess with...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Pain management physician Dr. Robert Windsor has agreed to the entry of a $20 million consent judgment to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by billing federal health care programs for surgical monitoring services that he did not perform and for medically unnecessary diagnostic tests. Dr. Windsor owned pain management clinics in Georgia and Kentucky that operated under the umbrella of National Pain Care, Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Multiple arrests were made this week during a Montgomery area round up for gun and drug violations, announced George Beck Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 70-year-old Kansas native who was residing in Panama was indicted today and charged with multiple crimes involving sexual conduct with minors in a foreign country, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: NEWARK - A Warren County, New Jersey, tax preparer was arrested this morning and charged with allegedly filing false returns on behalf of his clients and misappropriating clients’ funds, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal jury has found Justin Vazquez, 30, of Buffalo, NY, guilty of being a felon-in-possession of a firearm. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Shane Lopez, age 22, of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley for his connection to a heroin trafficking ring that operated in Schuylkill County during 2012 through May 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. today sentenced James Long (44, Brevard County) to 15 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering. The Court also ordered him to forfeit numerous assets, including cash and real estate properties, which were proceeds traceable to the offense. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 11, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Two El Paso men were sentenced to federal prison terms and ordered to pay $2,013,242 restitution to their victims for carrying out an extensive Ponzi scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.; Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, El Paso Division; and, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Beaver County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal robbery and firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
