News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A South Carolina man was arrested today on bank, wire, and mail fraud charges in connection with a “synthetic identity" fraud scheme that defrauded financial institutions of more than $340,000, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANNE CHARLOTTE SILVER, 63, of Morris, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 10 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for committing health care fraud. Judge Bolden also ordered SILVER to provide 100 hours of community service upon her release from prison, and to pay restitution of $1.6 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A man and a woman from Manhattan were sentenced Monday to 28 years in federal prison for taking part in the kidnapping of a Junction City woman who was killed during the abduction, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: Defendant One of 104 Individuals Federally Charged as the Result of ATF-Led Investigation Pursued in Support of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: Capitol Reef National Park will be celebrating International Migratory Bird Day on Saturday, May 13, 2017. Many species of migratory birds including several varieties of warblers, sparrows, and raptors find a hospitable stop-over in the Capitol Reef area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Rosa Cingari (68, Lakeland) to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison and Domenico Cingari (68, Lakeland) to 8 years and 1 month in federal prison for conspiracy, making false statements in immigration applications and petitions...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker announced the sentencing of JOHN WILLIAM ROWAN, 65, to 41 months in prison for stealing more than $1.2 million from the insurance company where he was employed for more than 20 years. ROWAN, who pleaded guilty on Jan. 19, 2017, to one count of wire fraud, was sentenced on May 5, 2017, before U.S. District Judge Susan R. Nelson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: Former Puerto Rico Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Civil Rights Violation for Assaulting Juvenile.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - - Shukri Abdullah, 44, of Albany, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison and fined $5,000 for possessing and intending to distribute synthetic cannabinoids.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former city clerk of Walnut Grove, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today to a credit card fraud scheme in which she embezzled city funds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: A Seattle Police Officer is one of four people arrested May 6, 2017, in connection with a ring smuggling hundreds of pounds of marijuana from the Seattle area to Baltimore, Maryland, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. ALEX CHAPACKDEE, 44, of Seattle, is a 16-year veteran of SPD and is the brother-in-law...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that a Terre Haute man was sentenced for his role in producing and possessing child pornography. David Roberts, 50, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Franklyn Morillo, 42, of Haverhill, Massachusetts was sentenced to serve 14 years in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service is bringing the beautification of the lawn and gardens of Lafayette Park into the digital age. The seven-acre park just north of the White House will soon be served by a high-tech, water-saving irrigation system that includes intelligent sensors that adjust to evaporation rates and weather conditions like rain or freezing temperatures.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A Fort Worth man was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge John McBryde to 20 years in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that AARON PAUL VICTORY, age 38, of Valiant, Oklahoma, pled guilty to FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2), punishable by not...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The executive director of the Ocean City, New Jersey, Housing Authority (OCHA) today admitted embezzling federal funds received by authority from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDREW ORECKINTO, 52, of Matawan, New Jersey, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffery Alker Meyer in New Haven to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing more than 8,000 cartons of cigarettes from a Wethersfield warehouse in March 2011.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: YAKIMA, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s May 2017 Total Water Supply Available (TWSA) forecast for the Yakima Basin indicates that the water supply will fully satisfy senior and junior water rights this irrigation season.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: Intoxicated Defendant Finally Stopped After Ramming Into Police Car.
