News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Charlestown woman was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for fraudulently cashing 287 U.S. tax refund checks worth approximately $1.8 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: WOOSTER, Ohio - A Chinese national living in Massachusetts was arrested and charged with distributing opioids and other drugs that were shipped from China to the United States and ultimately to Ohio, the DEA said. Bin Wang, 42, operated Cambridge Chemicals, Wonda Science, and other companies from a warehouse in Woburn, Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Greenfield man was sentenced in federal court in Springfield today for sexually exploiting a 10-year-old boy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: July 17 - 21, 2017. Dominick Brooks, 29, was indicted by a federal grand jury for felon in possession of a firearm. Robert Cooper, 46, was indicted by a federal grand jury for felon in possession of a firearm. Olugbenga Folarin, 27, was indicted by a federal grand jury for felon in possession of a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that a federal jury has convicted Donte Lee, 44, of Buffalo, N.Y., of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of marijuana. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Virginia resident was convicted today of identity theft, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former employee of a New Jersey based-trucking company was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for stealing more than $3 million by issuing company checks for her own benefit, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Paul A. Light, age 47, of Cohoes, New York, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for distributing, receiving, and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Brandon Johnson, 37, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline to serve 90 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy that brought controlled substances, including heroin and methamphetamine, into Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark police officer today admitted conspiring to fraudulently obtain payments under the federal public housing assistance program known as “Section 8," Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following a report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction finding that the Department of Defense (DoD) spent up to $28 million on uniforms with a “forest" pattern despite the fact that forests cover only 2.1 percent of Afghanistan’s total land area, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is calling for answers on what went wrong.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: Carmen Perez, 40, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for theft of government funds, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The Honorable Edward G. Smith, United States District Judge, also ordered Perez to serve three years of supervised release after her prison term and pay full restitution of $78,768.06 to the Social Security Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: DALLAS-Francisco Javier Lopez Echeverria, 19, of Balch Springs, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to serve 420 months in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release, following his guilty plea to two child pornography offenses, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Five members of a fraudulent debt collection scheme, including the company’s owner and operator, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr., to sentences ranging from 42 to 18 months, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: A sensor network developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) engineers could make it easier and cheaper for peanut growers and processors to dry their peanuts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jeffrey G. Vincent, 68, of Madera, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to four years and three months in prison for tax evasion, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: A Canton man was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for child pornography crimes, said Acting U.S. Attorney David Sierleja and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Monday, July 24, 2017, U.S. District Court Judge Anna J. Brown sentenced Andrew Henry Jacobs, 50, to 24 months in federal prison for wire fraud in an embezzlement scheme and 15 months in prison for filing false tax returns. The sentences arose from a multiyear swindle in which Jacobs...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sean Stinson, 33, of El Paso, Texas, pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to using interstate communications to threaten the lives and safety of Las Cruces Police Department (LCPD) officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2017
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Monday, July 24, 2017, U.S. District Court Judge Anna J. Brown sentenced Andrew Henry Jacobs, 50, to 24 months in federal prison for wire fraud in an embezzlement scheme and 15 months in prison for filing false tax returns. The sentences arose from a multiyear swindle in which Jacobs...
