News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: On June 8, 2017, Marshall D. Rosenberger, 36, of Carbondale, was sentenced to federal prison for a methamphetamine offense, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A West Texas man was sentenced Friday by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 188 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, returned a six-count indictment yesterday charging Boynton Beach Police Officer Michael Brown and former Boynton Beach Police Officers Justin Harris and Ronald Ryan, Jr., with unlawfully assaulting an arrestee, J.B., during a traffic stop on Aug. 20...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A North Texas man was sentenced Friday to life in federal prison for trafficking methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: On June 6, 2017, a Williamson County man was indicted for methamphetamine offenses, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for two Madera Irrigation District (MID) improvement projects that could save around 4,000 acre-feet of water per year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Steven Scudder, 62, of Centerville, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in a fraudulent investment scheme. Scudder pleaded guilty to wire fraud on Jan. 19, and admitted that he used his position as an attorney to facilitate the fraudulent investment scheme operated by someone else.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has announced that precautionary fire restrictions will be in place beginning Saturday, June 10, on public lands managed by the Central Coast Field Office. The restrictions prohibit campfires or open flames on BLM-managed lands in San Benito, Fresno, and Monterey counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A licensed pharmacist, Kumi Frimpong, who owned and operated the Cornerstone Pharmacy, located on Bolton Boone Drive in Desoto, Texas, was sentenced this morning for his involvement in a “pill mill" operation, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Jason Gueringer experienced a lot while in the U.S. Army; however, in his 20 years of service, nothing compared to what happened recently while leading a defensive tactics course at Fort Benning, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 14 defendants pleaded guilty in federal court this week to their roles in a $4.3 million conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine throughout Clay, Ray, Clinton and Buchanan counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that CRAIG FRANCIS, also known as Horus Durjaya Bey, 44, formerly of Windsor, has been charged by indictment with one count of filing a false tax return and one count of obstructing the administration of federal tax laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Brad Johnson, 27, from Meridian, was sentenced on May 30, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate, to 120 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $1500 fine for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Sidney Caleb Lanier, 36, and Jamie Marie Robertson, 32, both of Lubbock, Texas, were sentenced this morning before Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, announced Clyde E. Shelley, Jr., the Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, Acting United States Attorney William D. Weinreb; Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley; Harold H. Shaw, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Field Division; Mickey D.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: A Detroit man was sentenced today to 15 months in prison after having pleaded guilty to false information and hoaxes by threating to blow up the funeral procession of a slain Detroit Police Department Sargent, announced Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced the indictment of Adam W. Purinton, 52, of Olathe, Kansas. Purinton was indicted by a federal grand jury on hate crime and firearm charges for shooting three men-including two Indian nationals-at an Olathe bar on Feb. 22, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on June 8, 2017, United States District Court Judge Malachy Mannion sentenced Landy Then, age 25, of Pittson, Pennsylvania, to 18 months imprisonment for his role in a drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, returned a six-count indictment yesterday charging Boynton Beach Police Officer Michael Brown and former Boynton Beach Police Officers Justin Harris and Ronald Ryan, Jr., with unlawfully assaulting an arrestee, J.B., during a traffic stop on Aug. 20...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker announced a federal indictment charging ROSA MARGARITA MALDONADO with two counts of filing a false claim for tax refund, one count of theft of public money, and two counts of aggravated identity theft. MALDONADO will make her initial appearance in United States District Court on June 21, 2017.
