News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of three indictments charging 16 individuals with federal drug trafficking crimes. Felix Mejia Lagunas, a/k/a “Carlos Lagunas Salgado," (41, Riverside, California); Jesus Alberto Bermudez Caraballo, a/k/a “Bebo," (28...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Samirahdam E. Rolley (25), of Stone Mountain, GA, pled guilty to two credit card fraud charges and a charge of aggravated identity theft yesterday in federal court in East St. Louis, IL. On Monday, February...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Tammie Sensenig, age 45, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty March 8, 2017, before United States Magistrate Judge Martin C. Carlson to a criminal information charging her with healthcare fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III today announced that Thomas Herris Sigler, III (45, Port Richey) pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring with others to threaten, intimidate, and interfere with an interracial couple’s enjoyment of their housing rights.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Obed Wild and Scenic River is pleased to announce it has recently been awarded a grant by Eastern National, to further the Parks-In-Focus program in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - After a three-day trial, Gregory Williams, 29, of Pensacola, was convicted this week of 19 counts of firearm-related offenses, including possession of a machinegun, possession of an unregistered machinegun, and false statement to a firearm dealer. The verdict was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Investigators Found Evidence of Online Communication to Entice Minors to Sexual Activity.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Washington - The United States Park Police is investigating a fatal car crash that occurred around 8:20 p.m. in Southeast Washington, D.C. Two vehicles crashed in the intersection of Suitland Parkway and Forestville Road. One driver was pronounced dead on scene after extensive.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal grand jury in Providence has returned a four-count indictment charging Andy Joseph, a/k/a Andrew J. Joseph, 24, of Brockton, Mass., with allegedly trafficking a 15-year-old Rhode Island female across state lines for the purpose of criminal sexual activity.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Transportation Security Administration officers prevented three travelers from bringing loaded handguns onboard planes at Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) checkpoints yesterday. The three incidents are not believed to be related.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington today sentenced Ernest Vereen, Jr. (40, Tampa) to 24 years and 5 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as an Armed Career Criminal. He was found guilty on Nov. 1, 2016, after a two-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Heloise Westbrook, MD, of Owensboro, Kentucky, formerly of Aberdeen, South Dakota, was sentenced on March 6, 2017, on three misdemeanor charges of Fraudulent Returns, Statements, or Other Documents in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Correctional Officer Thomas Leimbach, age 32, of Pocomoke City, Maryland, pleaded guilty on March 9, 2017, to his participation in a racketeering conspiracy operating at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover, Maryland.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Dear Acting-Chairman Ohlhausen: We write to commend the decision by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch an investigation of Mylan’s business practices. The astronomically high cost of prescription drugs continues to burden families across the country, and Mylan has faced well-deserved scrutiny...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: This afternoon, the President requested my resignation, along with the remaining presidentially appointed U.S. Attorneys across the country, effective at midnight tonight.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Two Central Falls women were sentenced to 3 years in federal prison today for their roles in a long-running scheme to use the stolen identities of more than 400 individuals on fraudulent tax returns resulting in the theft of more than $2.6 million in fraudulent tax refunds.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, joined with Committee Chairman Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa to introduce two bills that seek to expand whistleblower protections.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Thomas J. Richter, 30, from Troy, Illinois was charged on March 7, 2017 in federal court by a two-count criminal complaint alleging Distribution and Receipt of Child Pornography, United States Attorney Donald S. Boyce has announced. After a detention hearing held today, Richter was released on bond with electronic leg monitoring.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: “At the request of the Attorney General of the United States, I have submitted my resignation to the President, effective immediately. Serving the people of Minnesota as their United States Attorney has been the most fulfilling and rewarding experience of my professional life. The Office that I am leaving...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Foundation Leader Concealed Income and Assets While Receiving Welfare.
