News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Daquan Rice, 22, and Damian Diaz, 26, both of Syracuse, New York, pled guilty to conspiracy charges relating to their role in a years-long credit-card cloning operation, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Chris Myers announced today, that the U.S. Marshals Service, working with Jamaican law enforcement, has located and apprehended another man charged with participating in an international organized crime advance fee “lottery scam" which defrauded at least 90 mostly elderly U.S. residents out of more than $5.8 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston drug dealer was sentenced today to three years and five months in federal prison for a methamphetamine crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Chelsea Fore, 25, previously pleaded guilty to distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Joseph Frank Korzelius, owner of Western Carolina Counseling Services and a school counselor in the Polk County school system, admitted today to defrauding the North Carolina Medicaid Program of over $400,000, by submitting false and fraudulent reimbursement claims. Korzelius, 46, of Tryon, N.C., appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis L. Howell and pleaded guilty to one count of health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Connie L. Christy, 62, of New Albany, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to four months in prison, four months community confinement, three months home confinement and three years of supervised release for attempting to evade the IRS of more than $124,000.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents arrested two men June 2 on child exploitation charges. The arrests took place in Bayamon and San Juan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: A Richland County man was indicted for three bank robberies, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: Spokane - Today, Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that United States District Judge Stanley A. Bastian sentenced Numa Jay Speedis, age 64, of the Yakama Nation Indian Reservation, for Abusive Sexual Contact with a Minor. Speedis pled...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PETER RESSLER, 70, of Woodbridge, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to embezzling millions of dollars from his bankruptcy clients, and to related fraud offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: An Akron man was indicted for illegally having drugs and firearms, and assaulting law enforcement officers, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: A 26-year-old baggage handler at Austin Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA) faces up to twenty years in federal prison after pleading guilty to stealing items from checked baggage, including a.40 caliber Glock semi-automatic pistol, announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Austin Police Chief Brian Manley.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for illegal reentry after deportation.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Natchez Trace Parkway welcomed over 200 visitors on Saturday, May 27, 2017, to the Battle of Ackia Commemoration and Pioneer Days events. Joseph Smith, representative of the Chickasaw Nation, presented a special Junior Ranger program entitled “Chickasaw Culture and Life." The program...
By State Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - On June 6, 2017, after a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10 Allegheny County residents were indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lelander Mays, 31, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Red Mesa, Utah, pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to an involuntary manslaughter charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: A Tampa resident pled guilty today before United States District Judge James I. Cohn and was sentenced to prison for threatening a Sandy Hook parent residing in the Southern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Rafael P. Leal, 39, of Boston, Mass., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I., today to charges that he traveled to Rhode Island to entice a minor child to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: Fort Sumter National Monument is requesting public comment on a planned entrance fee increase at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan’s Island. The entrance fee at Fort Moultrie has not been increased since 2005. The change, planned for implementation on Oct. 1, 2017 includes increasing the per person/1-day...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: Ex-wife of man charged in $1.5 million Quincy real estate scheme arrested in Florida.
