News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - Deborah E. Wagner, aka Deborah E. Cottrell, age 66, of Andes, New York, was sentenced today to serve 2 years of probation and pay $64,196 in restitution for defrauding the Social Security Administration (SSA) and receiving benefits to which she was not entitled.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Anthony Tyrone Jones (36, Jacksonville) to five years and six months in federal prison for impersonating an FBI agent, wire fraud, and failure to appear. He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $21,700 to a victim of his offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Rhiannon Carnahan, age 30, of Woodland Park, Colorado, was sentenced earlier this week to serve 324 months (27 years) in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer, Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Commander for Colorado Lieutenant Christina...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Bullhead, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury on four counts of Child Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Feb. 22, 2017, a jury in the Southern District of Iowa convicted Jonathan Leroy Homedew, 43, of Hemet, California, on a charge of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Sentencing has been scheduled for July 6, 2017, before Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Isiah Heyward, 24, of Sicklerville, NJ., was charged today by indictment with assault on a federal officer, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment alleges that on or about Dec. 10, 2016, Heyward forcibly assaulted, resisted, opposed, impeded, intimidated and interfered with a Correctional Officer of the Federal Bureau of Prisons while the officer was engaged in his official duties.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Samuel Bozochovic, age 36, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury with stealing handguns from a gun store in Muncy, Pennsylvania, and possessing controlled substances with the intent to distribute them.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Eight people from Northeast Ohio were indicted for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute powder and crack cocaine on the East Side of Cleveland, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: A corrections officer at the Aberdeen, Washington City Jail will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Tacoma this afternoon, following an FBI investigation into allegations that the corrections officer was tipping-off drug traffickers about law enforcement activities, announced U.S...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Allegedly Shared Sensitive Law Enforcement Information with Drug Trafficking Suspects.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS: Weather depending, the Natchez Trace Parkway will conduct a prescribed fire (controlled burn) on Friday, February 24 at the Chickasaw Village. This prescribed fire will help to restore the native prairie and reduce vegetation that could burn in a wildfire along the parkway boundary. The prescribed fire is located at.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Manuel Antonio Nunez-Ortega, a/k/a “Julio Ricardo Fratichelli-Hernandez," of Allentown, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment alleges that on or about December 6, 2016, Nunez-Ortega, an alien, and native and citizen of the Dominican Republic, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about Sept. 20, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Florida Man Sentenced for Sex Trafficking and Interstate Prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Derek L. Winston, 39, of Irvington, was sentenced this morning in federal court to a year and a day for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Winston pled guilty to the charge in November of 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Mark McCloud, 47, formerly of Northfield, Vermont, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford for unlawfully possessing explosive devices, that is two pipe bombs.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, visited the U.S.-Mexico border this week, ahead of possible Congressional action this year on border security.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Eight people from Northeast Ohio were indicted for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute powder and crack cocaine on the East Side of Cleveland, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Information on Bank Robbery in Sunrise.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio today, 55-year-old Daniel Thomason Smith was sentenced to 324 months in federal prison for his role in an estimated $3.5 million Health Care Fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Former CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Comverse Technology Was Extradited from Namibia to Face Charges Related to an Options Backdating Scheme.
