News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Aberdeen, South Dakota, man convicted of Wire Fraud was sentenced on Oct. 30, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ASAFAK B. BHURA, 51, of Manchester, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 10 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for attempting to obstruct federal tax laws. Judge Bryant also ordered BHURA to pay a $30,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Jamie Villono, of Sistersville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 46 months incarceration for illegally possessing firearms, United States Attorney William J. Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that United States District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy sentenced Brian Reyes, age 30, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, to 70 months’ imprisonment for participating in a stolen identity tax refund fraud conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that in federal court yesterday, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt, sentenced GARRETT RITSON YOUNG, 36, of Jacksonville to 180 months of imprisonment followed by 20 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: A Lima man was indicted for selling fentanyl, fentanyl analogues, heroin and cocaine, including a fentanyl analogue that resulted in an overdose, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: DENVER - The Pueblo Police Department, the Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office, and the FBI Denver Division, all parts of the Southern Colorado Safe Streets Task Force, announced the seizure of historic amounts of heroin from two residences and a business located in Pueblo, Colorado. Following the seizure...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 44-year old resident of Houston has been ordered to federal prison for perpetrating a scheme that caused a loss of more than $4 million to several local banks, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Andre Chenier pleaded guilty Jan. 29, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Victor Manuel Solorzano, 32, of Dallas, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 567 months in federal prison for the Nov. 19, 2015 armed assault of two federal law enforcement officers in southwest Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LONNIE ARNOLD, 37, of Hartford, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a cocaine distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kevin Theil, 53, of Corning, NY, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Raleigh Rana Figueras, 36, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. for his role in a fraud and identity theft scheme, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced today Tony Lee Stanfield, 53 of Villa Rica, Georgia, to 120 months in prison and five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Francisco Siri, 48, a Dominican national, was indicted today in federal court in Springfield on one count of unlawful reentry of a deported alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Carla Cristina DePaula, age 39, and a citizen of Brazil and Italy, was sentenced yesterday to time served (4 months in jail) for attempting to illegally re-enter the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Jackson, TN - Henry McGuire was sentenced to a total of 240 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a machine gun and seven other firearms in Tennessee; and for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking offense in Idaho. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) repatriated a Mexican citizen Tuesday who was wanted in his home country on charges of homicide.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: SOUTH BEND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Sharon Ramos, age 56, of South Bend, Indiana was convicted of ten counts of making false entries in government records, two counts of conversion of government money, and one count of wire fraud, after a four-day jury trial before District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Fairmont, West Virginia man was sentenced today to 37 months incarceration for mail fraud, United States Attorney William J. Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Victor Manuel Solorzano, 32, of Dallas, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 567 months in federal prison for the Nov. 19, 2015 armed assault of two federal law enforcement officers in southwest Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
