News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Three Former Arkansas Juvenile Detention Officers Indicted for Conspiracy to Assault Juvenile Detainees.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A former associate clerk in the Cook County Circuit Court Clerk’s Office lied under oath to a federal grand jury when she denied selling tickets for the Clerk’s campaign fundraisers to other employees in the office, according to a federal indictment announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, a criminal indictment was unsealed in federal court, charging Robert M. Boston, 53, and Robert S. LaBarge, 50, both of Hickory, N.C., with conspiracy relating to a fraud totaling at least $25 million, to include wire fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On April 28, 2017, the Grand Jury returned a 23-count indictment charging Sheila Judith Quiñones-Santos, Edgardo “Gary" Luis Nazario-Montijo and Felipe Soto-González with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, substantive counts of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Indictment also...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A federal grand jury in Norfolk returned an indictment yesterday charging a Chesapeake man with theft of firearms and possessing stolen firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK - Calvin Joel Polk, 50, of Coleman, Texas, was sentenced this morning by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 71 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in January 2017, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Sean Donald Premock, 44, of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, entered pleas of guilty to nine counts of mail fraud, nine counts of wire fraud, one count of securities fraud, and one count of investment adviser fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Lee Robertson, 33, and Tasmin Stewart, a/k/a “Taz," 30, both of Baton Rouge, Louisiana were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater stemming from their involvement in a “pill mill" operation, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Person Dies After Border Patrol Checkpoint Shooting Near Las Cruces.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An alleged member of MS-13 who had been a fugitive was arrested today in East Boston and charged with illegal re-entry.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Defendant Ignored Residents Repeated Request To Stop Selling Drugs In Their Neighborhood.
By USDA Newswire | May 5, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 132,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: STATESBORO, GA: Jonathan Shane Culbreth, 21, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U. S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to serve 5 years in federal prison for starting a fire last summer that destroyed a historic building in the heart of downtown Glennville. The fire, which Culbreth began before dawn on ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On April 28, 2017, the Grand Jury returned a 23-count indictment charging Sheila Judith Quiñones-Santos, Edgardo “Gary" Luis Nazario-Montijo and Felipe Soto-González with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, substantive counts of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Indictment also...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Dany Francisco Ruiz-Ardon, age 32, formerly of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, was sentenced today to time served (33 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A federal grand jury in Norfolk returned an indictment yesterday charging a Chesapeake man with theft of firearms and possessing stolen firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - Johnathon Deontre Smith, 25, of Dallas, is in federal custody on a sex trafficking of children charge outlined in an indictment filed earlier this week, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) is partnering with area government agencies and private organizations to host a free water adventure expo on Saturday, June 17, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at Platte Point at the end of Lake Michigan Road.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: FALL RIVER MILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Pit River Campground, along the banks of the Pit River, remains closed to the public until the extensive flood damage to the recreational area can be fixed.
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Two siblings, both illegal aliens from Mexico, made their initial appearances Thursday in federal court on a three-count indictment charging them with trafficking in counterfeit vehicle airbags.
