News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that KEEVIN MICHAEL RAY WALKER, age 29, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 33 months in the Bureau of Prisons, followed by supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A federal jury deliberated for less than two hours before returning guilty verdicts late yesterday on all counts charged in the trial of Dean Mowen, 53, of Quincy, Ill., for his involvement in an insurance fraud scheme. U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough presided over the trial, which began on Jan. 10. Mowen, of the 6900 block of Ellington Road, was allowed to remain on bond pending sentencing, scheduled for May 22, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Marquese Whitted, age 30, and Derek Mountz, age 32, both of Schuylkill County, were indicted on Jan. 17, 2017, by a federal grand jury for participating in a methamphetamine and heroin trafficking conspiracy that operated in Schuylkill and Berks Counties in April-October 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Joseph Wood, 67, of Yuba City, pleaded guilty today to possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Robert F. Arnold, 40, the suspended Sheriff of Rutherford County, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to federal charges of fraud and corruption, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the administration of this case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Coryn Lawyer, 23, of Kamiah, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to assault with a dangerous weapon, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Lawyer was indicted by a federal grand Jury in Coeur d’Alene on July 20, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that DION EDWARD THOMPSON, 39, formerly of East Hartford, pleaded guilty yesterday in Hartford federal court to robbing a U.S. Postal Service employee in Hartford in September 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jeffrey Lynn Mattox, age 32, and Clayton John Shinn, age 26, inmates at the United States Penitentiary, Canaan, in Waymart, Pennsylvania, were indicted on Jan. 17, 2017, by a federal grand jury for assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Robert F. Arnold, 40, the suspended Sheriff of Rutherford County, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to federal charges of fraud and corruption, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the administration of this case.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Fourth grade classrooms and students are invited to participate in an art contest at Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area to earn their Every Kid in a Park Pass.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A New York man was sentenced today to 17 and a half years in federal prison for transporting a minor from West Virginia to Virginia for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Ian Michael Cramer, 27, of Amherst, previously pleaded...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The business manager for Alanis Morissette and other entertainment and sports figures admitted in court papers filed today that he embezzled nearly $7.2 million from his clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a complaint today against a corporation which operates a South Jersey day care facility for allegedly violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by expelling a child with Down syndrome, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man who was arrested on Jan. 13, 2017 in connection with a Fort Lee, New Jersey, bank robbery will make his initial court appearance tomorrow, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Special Agent in Charge Robert Feldt, of the Social Security Administration, Office of Inspector General, announced today that Gary Lemond Shorter, age 61, of Little Rock, was sentenced federal prison for making a false statement to the Social Security Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that KEEVIN MICHAEL RAY WALKER, age 29, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 33 months in the Bureau of Prisons, followed by supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
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By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Rumaldo Olivas, 27, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Olivas will be sentenced to 84 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Robert Da’Quan Johnson, age 21, of Rock Hill, South Carolina was sentenced today after pleading guilty last year to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code...
