News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Kevin Bristol Patterson, 35, of Blairsville, Georgia, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Eleanor L. Ross to 18 years and four months in federal prison to be followed by five years of supervised release, and a $600 special assessment. Patterson’s sentence was a result of his role in distributing methamphetamine and heroin while incarcerated at Ware State Prison in Waycross, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Ocean County, New Jersey, man today admitted owning and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: BROOKLYN N.Y. - Jacob Alexander, also known as “Kobi Alexander," an Israeli national, was sentenced earlier today to 30 months in prison after having pleaded guilty to securities fraud for his role in a stock options backdating scheme involving Comverse Technologies Inc. (Comverse). Alexander was a former...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David A. Capp announced that Joshua Herman, 28, of Hammond, Indiana, was sentenced on Feb. 22, 2017 by District Court Judge Rudy Lozano after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm by a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jeffrey Scott Jones, age 36, of Orangeville, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking that resulted in death.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore opens a new fishing pier and refurbishes the Soundside Nature Trail, both of which improve accessibility for all park visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Larry Lee Emerson, Jr., 36, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 37 months in prison for assaulting a federal officer. Emerson will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A former church treasurer was sentenced on Wednesday to four years in prison for stealing nearly $1.5 million from the church in a wire fraud scheme, and committing more than $500,000 in tax fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Tara Sullivan of the IRS Las Vegas Field Office.
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: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for his role in making preparations to launch a terrorist attack with persons he believed were members of ISIS, but who were actually undercover law enforcement agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio yesterday, 27-year-old William Richard Welsh and 23-year-old Ashleigh Nicole Browning Welsh were sentenced to 327 months in federal prison for production of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that AARON J. JOHNSON, 36, of Haddam, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to one count of mail fraud stemming from a scheme to defraud clients of his investment business.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Wood Group PSN Inc., a Nevada corporation headquartered in Houston, Texas, was ordered to pay $9.5 million today in two separate cases involving their conduct in the Gulf of Mexico. Specifically, Wood Group PSN was ordered to pay $7 million for falsely reporting over several years that personnel...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - After an eight-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Carmen C. Cerezo, a jury found Noel Turner-Ayala guilty of child pornography offenses, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Turner-Ayala is facing a mandatory minimum sentence of fifteen (15) years imprisonment and a statutory maximum of thirty (30) years, and a maximum possible fine of $250,000. His sentencing was scheduled for June 20, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Stacy Paul Waddell, 45, of Savannah and elsewhere, was sentenced earlier this week by U.S. District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. to 183 months of in prison for wire fraud, selling counterfeit coins and tampering with official proceedings. Waddell’s sentencing followed his conviction in August of 2016 after a one-week jury trial. Under federal law, the Court’s sentence was imposed without the possibility of parole.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: A Wisconsin man will be sentenced later this year after admitting to falsely claiming he was a Navy SEAL wounded four times in Vietnam, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Springfield for possessing and distributing crack cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: RIDGELAND, MS -Mississippi State University (MSU) graphic design student Kelli Clayton created the winning travel poster in the 2016 Centennial Poster Contest, a project to help students and visitors explore the diverse history, culture, and beauty of the Natchez Trace Parkway (Parkway). Ms. Clayton’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former baggage handler employed at Los Angeles International Airport was arrested Tuesday by authorities investigating the use of employee credentials to breach airport security. Alberto H. Botello, 23, of South Gate, was taken into custody without incident by officers from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Los Angeles World Airports Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A native of Romania who was arrested in Spain and extradited to the United States was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to steal bank account information from thousands of customers by installing secret card-reading devices and pinhole cameras on ATMs throughout New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Florida, and elsewhere, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
