News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Callus LeFont Latimore, age 42, of Augusta, Georgia was sentenced yesterday in federal court for various charges stemming from the February, 9, 2017, armed robbery of First Reliance Bank in West Columbia, South Carolina. On April...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is initiating emergency target shooting restrictions on public lands managed by the Mother Lode Field Office in 15 central California counties, beginning Thursday, July 20, due to high fire potential. The temporary restriction will remain in place until fire dangers subside. Use of firearms for hunting is still allowed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces a civil settlement with Alexander Olympus Zarris that resolves alleged violations of the False Claims Act (“FCA") and the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (“FIRREA") through reverse mortgage transactions...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: California Resident Indicted for Impeding the Internal Revenue Laws and Filing False Tax Returns that Did Not Report Secret German and Israeli Accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: A former resident of Eastsound, Orcas Island, Washington was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 33 months in prison and three years of supervised release for wire fraud in connection with her scheme to steal from her employers, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. SARAH ELIZABETH...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Gerald Kent, 51, of Groton, CT, owner and operator of Kent Jewelry in Johnston, RI., made an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Providence today and was ordered detained in federal custody, charged by way of a criminal complaint with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland man was charged with carjacking, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Pedro Mendez-Zavala, a/k/a “Pedro Zavala Mendez," a/k/a “Luis Medina Bedolla,"of Avondale, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment alleges that on or about Feb. 22, 2017, Mendez-Zavala...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -Chief U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker sentenced 24-year-old Demetrius Viney, Jr. of Holland, Michigan to 100 months’ imprisonment for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Byerly Birge announced today. Judge Jonker also ordered Viney to serve three years of supervised release, forfeit the firearm, and pay a $1,200 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Williamsburg lawyer guilty of her role in a conspiracy to fraudulently transfer of hundreds of timeshare units was sentenced today to 50 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to sell more than 1.5 kilograms of cocaine and more than 87 grams of crack-cocaine in the Trenton area, Acting U.S. William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Trusted with Bank Accounts and Credit Cards, she used Couple’s Money for her Personal Expenses for more than Ten Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: One Man Died, Another Was Wounded in Early-Morning Attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that HOMERO JOSHUA GARZA, 32, of Texas, formerly of Somers, Conn., waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of wire fraud related to his role in his companies’ purported generation and sale of virtual currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Guatemalan national was charged today in federal court in Boston with a federal immigration crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: A grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Kenneth Ray Evans, 51, of Mentor, with receiving visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Vernon L. Morris, 55, of Cleveland, with failure to register as a sex offender, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Justice Department today announced the seizure of the largest criminal marketplace on the Internet, AlphaBay, which operated for over two years on the dark web and was used to sell deadly illegal drugs, stolen and fraudulent identification documents and access devices, counterfeit goods, malware and other computer hacking tools, firearms, and toxic chemicals throughout the world.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Osvaldo Santos-Escarenio, 25, of Mexico, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on July 20, 2017, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Santos-Escarenio was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received time served, plus ten days, was...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced former Jefferson County Schools’ human resources director and Hueytown Middle School principal to more than 30 years in prison for enticing a minor to engage in prostitution and possessing child pornography. Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey, FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge David W. Archey, Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steven D. Anderson and Hueytown Police Chief Chuck Hagler announced the sentence.
