News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - John Ray James of Dewey, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Claire V. Egan to his role in a conspiracy related to the purchase and sale of $8.2 million of synthetic cannabinoids, also known as “K2," at three retail smoke shops in Tulsa, Owasso and Claremore. The plea was announced jointly by Drug Enforcement Administration-Dallas, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Richard Salter and U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams, Sr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Chicago man has been sentenced to five years in prison for fraudulent overbilling an estimated $4.7 million to Illinois’ Medicaid program for non-emergency medical transport. Gregory D. Toran, 68, of Hazel Crest, Ill., was also ordered to pay $4.7 million in restitution. U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Melissa Strohman, age 54, of Nottingham, Maryland, pleaded guilty in federal court today to wire fraud and bank embezzlement, arising from a six-year scheme to steal over $1.8 million from bank customers at the bank where she worked.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the Central California Irrigation District Molasses Ditch Lining Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: In El Paso today, a federal grand jury indicted seven individuals for allegedly defrauding multiple local banks and credit unions through applications for at least $237,000 in personal loans and lines of credit announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: Jackson, TN - A California man who shot a woman twice during an attempted bank robbery has been sentenced to more than three decades in federal prison. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), announced today the filing of a criminal complaint charging ROBERT GUZMAN with mail fraud in connection...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: Council Bluffs, IA - On Jan. 25, 2017, John F. Thomsenheather Jean Reekr, a 47-year-old resident of Missouri Valley, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 235 months in prison for coersion and enticement of a minor for sex and for transporting a minor with...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) national touring exhibit, Drugs: Costs and Consequences, has arrived in Mobile, Alabama. The exhibit, developed by the DEA and the DEA Educational Foundation, opens on Feb. 3, 2017, at the Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center. In this interactive...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: The male victim of a fatal two-vehicle accident that occurred in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park Saturday afternoon has been identified as 65-year-old Paul Hernandez of New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - The former president of Chase Power Development has entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Kathleen Smith entered her plea today, while co-defendant and former CEO John Upchurch entered his plea earlier this month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Ariel Perez-Calvo, 28, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 3½ years in prison and three years of supervised release for credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft. He was also ordered to pay over $35,000 in restitution to the victims of his crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Nicko Ray Rush II, 26, of Lansing, Michigan, pled guilty on Jan. 24, 2017, to sex trafficking a minor by force, threats of force, fraud, or coercion. A grand jury charged Rush in November 2016 with sex trafficking two girls, ages 15 and 16, and one adult in Ingham County and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Justin Larson, age 30, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, for distribution of acetyl fentanyl, which resulted in death; conspiracy to distribute narcotics; five counts of possession or attempted possession of a controlled substance and controlled substance...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - In response to public interest, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)’s Phoenix District Office has scheduled two additional information meetings at which it seeks input on recreational target shooting management alternatives for the Sonoran Desert National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Jan. 25, 2017, Richard Lee Doerr, III, 29, formerly of East Carondelet, Illinois, was sentenced for distribution of child pornography, three counts of receipt of child pornography, and possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Waltham-based financial advisor has agreed to plead guilty in connection with defrauding his clients by engaging in a multi-year “cherry-picking" scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 32-year-old Laneville, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: Jackson, TN - A California man who shot a woman twice during an attempted bank robbery has been sentenced to more than three decades in federal prison. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: MINERAL, CA - Lassen Volcanic National Park Acting Superintendent Gary Mott announced that the sentencing hearing on January 24 for Nicholas M. Coberley resulted in 27 months in a State Prison and three years of supervised probation. Coberley, age 45, had pled guilty in federal court on Oct. 11, 2016 for charges stemming from an incident on a June night within Lassen Volcanic National Park.
