News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Gary Wayne Collins, 53, of Forest, City, N.C., appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis Howell on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, and pleaded guilty to detaining and delaying U.S. mail in Cleveland and Rutherford Counties, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Kevin Bristol Patterson has been sentenced to 18 years, four months in federal prison for his role in distributing methamphetamine and heroin while incarcerated at Ware State Prison in Waycross, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - A Franklin, West Virginia man was indicted today for multiple firearms violations, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX), and Committee members Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Kurt Schrader (D-OR), and Raul Ruiz, M.D. (D-CA) sent a letter to the Full Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - An April trial date has been set for a Kankakee, Ill., man charged with committing robberies of businesses in Champaign and Kankakee in July and August 2016. Thomas James, 33, of the 500 block of S. Indiana Ave., Kankakee, Ill., made his initial appearance in federal court on Feb. 16, on the charges. James has been ordered to remain detained in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. Trial is scheduled on April 18.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Kansas City, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for engaging in a fraud scheme in which she stole $440,000 in lottery winnings from her victim as part of a scheme that resulted in a total loss of more than $640,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: A. Lance Crick (843) 282-2105.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Ismael Nevarez, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation, in New Mexico and Arizona, held a press conference today to highlight schemes to steal taxpayers’ personal information and scam them out of their hard-earned money. They were...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Alessandra P. Serano (619) 546-8104 and Connie V. Wu (619) 546-8592.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Information Sought in Investigation into Deaths of Liberty German and Abigail Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Jason Lee Burgess, 44, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced today to 84 months imprisonment, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. After his release from prison, Burgess will be placed on supervised release for three years. Burgess was originally indicted on December 8, 2015, and entered his guilty plea to a superseding information on Nov. 16, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ALLEN GAUTREAX, age 36, of Lockport, pled guilty today to one count of conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: On March 2, 2017, at 9:00 a.m., Gervais (Ken) Ngombwa will be sentenced in federal district court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, following his convictions for naturalization fraud and lying to federal agents and the district court’s finding that he participated in the Rwandan genocide.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Today, a federal judge sentenced Albert Fisher, 78 of Quakertown to 36 Months in prison for his role in conspiring to defraud fraternities, sororities and fraternity alumni associations at Lehigh University, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis L. Lappen. In addition, the Honorable Joseph F.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - - An indictment and two complaints were unsealed today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging nine defendants with conspiring to distribute heroin and/or oxycodone in Staten Island, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Sarah Frances Bolhuis, 70, of Ellsworth, in Antrim County, Michigan, was sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison and ordered to repay $5.2 million to 53 victims of her investment fraud scheme. The Honorable Paul L. Maloney, U.S. District Judge, imposed the sentence, and further ordered her to serve three years of court supervision upon her release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Jackson, TN - A former Crockett County Sheriff’s Deputy has been indicted on federal drug and gun charges. Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, and Michael T. Gavin, Special Agent in Charge of the Memphis Division of the FBI, announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging Calvin Fields with federal drug trafficking and gun violations.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Dear Secretary Mnuchin and Commissioner Koskinen...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Alexander Balding, 21, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Colin S. Bruce has sentenced Jesse Guardiola, 43, of Grant Park, Ill., to serve 140 months (11 years, 8 months) in federal prison for five counts of illegal possession of a firearm by a felon. Guardiola has previously been identified by law enforcement as a member of the Latin Kings in Kankakee.
