News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: Daquan Rice and Damian Diaz to be Sentenced on Sept. 29, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Three individuals were arrested today in connection with a scheme to defraud victims seeking immigration status in the United States. As part of the fraud, two of defendants - Hardev Panesar and Rafael Hastie - posed as officers of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and promised that they could obtain immigration status for people in exchange for exorbitant fees. Gurdev Singh is also charged with assisting his conspirators in the fraudulent scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Dwight Horton, 51, a former Mission Support Specialist (MSS) with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Dallas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Court Judge Ed Kinkeade, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - John Ryder, 29, of West Warwick, was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison for robbing a BankRI branch office in Coventry of more than $6,000 in cash, while wielding a machete, on May 2, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: Raleigh - United States Attorney John Stuart Bruce announced that yesterday afternoon in federal court Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced HUGH MONROE DYSON, 67, of Holly Springs, North Carolina, to serve 48 months in federal prison, for committing Mail Fraud. DYSON was also ordered to forfeit the proceeds of the offense, to make restitution, and to serve three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kirk Simplicio, 24, a member and resident of Zuni Pueblo, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 16 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on a sexual abuse of a minor charge. Simplicio will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -------- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Kelly Sue Reynolds, age 51, of Mooresboro, North Carolina, pled guilty as charged in federal court this morning to five counts of income tax evasion. The plea was accepted by United States District Judge Timothy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted an Alexandria man today of providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - The head of a marijuana trafficking cell has pleaded guilty for his role in a conspiracy to traffic drugs from Laredo to the Dallas area via the use of tractor trailers, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 52-year-old resident of The Woodlands has been charged with defrauding her former employer of more than $1.5 million, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -The Department of Justice has informed the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that Attorney General Jeff Sessions will not testify at today’s hearing on the status of documents being withheld by the Department relating to the Committee’s long-running investigation of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Joshua Deunte Caldwell, 26, of Houston, Texas was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to serve a total of 108 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in July 2016 to his role in the conspiracy to rob Tilak Jewelers in Irving, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
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: Matthew Philip, 55, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged by Information with one count of SNAP benefit fraud and one count of theft of government funds, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. According to the Information, from January 2013 through December 2016, the defendant unlawfully exchanged cash for SNAP benefits. The defendant’s alleged actions resulted in a loss to the government of more than $3,500,000.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: “Thank you Mr. Chairman. I’m happy to be here today to continue the Committee’s work ahead of the next farm bill and to welcome today’s witnesses to the Agriculture Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Paris Wilder, age 30, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on June 6, 2017, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: Benjamin G. Greenberg, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Shimon R. Richmond, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), and Mark Selby, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Miami Field Office, announced the Indictment of Merice Perez Colon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted an Alexandria man today of providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday - Building a Digital Defense Against PII Theft (Part 1).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: Harrisburg - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Doncarlos Urrutia, age 32, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
