News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: AKRON, Ohio - Ryan Sumlin, 29, was convicted by a jury earlier this year on charges of distribution of fentanyl and heroin that resulted in death, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Matilda Lynn Prince has been sentenced to federal prison, after a jury convicted her of twenty-nine counts of healthcare fraud for filing fraudulent claims with Medicare and the Georgia Medicaid program for optometry and ophthalmology services that were never provided to patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: An Akron man was sentenced to life in prison for selling fentanyl and heroin that resulted in the death of a 23-year-old Akron woman.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Florida man was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston with conducting an extensive cyberstalking campaign that targeted his former classmate, a 30-year-old Massachusetts woman.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that yesterday, AMONI BROWN, 20, of Hope Mills, NC, and DONNELL MARIO BRATTON, 38, of Fayetteville, NC, were convicted following a three-day jury trial before United States District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jason Ressel, 43, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to 18 years in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute. This term of imprisonment will be followed by five years of supervised release. Ressel pleaded guilty to this charge on May 17, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Rodney L. Roach, 38, Beloit, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 60 months in federal prison for distributing heroin and crack cocaine. Roach pleaded guilty to this charge on May 14, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: $315,000 fraud nearly bankrupted employer. PRESS RELEASE. Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh Minkler today announced that Erica Howard, 42, of Indianapolis, was sentenced in federal court for her role in a two-year scheme to siphon funds from her employer, a family-owned construction company.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Damien Rutledge, 22, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to his role in a series of five gunpoint commercial robberies that occurred in September, 2017 in Rochester, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: FBI Announces Arrest of El Paso Male for Threat to Local Schools.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: RIVERTON, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management and the Wyoming Honor Farm will partner September 7-8 in Riverton for Wyoming’s final, in-person wild horse and burro adoption of 2018. For 30 years, the Honor Farm has shared the BLM’s commitment to place excess wild horses and burros into private care in order to maintain healthy animals on healthy, productive public rangelands.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former New Bedford fishing boat captain pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to interfering with a U.S Coast Guard (USCG) inspection of a fishing boat off the Massachusetts coast.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Dwayne Thomas Farmer, 36, of Richmond, Ky., pleaded guilty today to trafficking in methamphetamine, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Due to ongoing high water in the Potomac River, the National Park Service delayed the work on Arlington Memorial Bridge again. The work is now scheduled to happen starting at 7 p.m. on Friday, September 28 and ending at 5 a.m. on Monday, October 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Gustavo Adolfo Jimenez Polanco, 30, a Dominican Republic National, was sentenced today in district court for illegally re-entering the United States, United States Attorney Gretchen Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Donald Threatt, age 67, of Fairfield, California, pleaded guilty today to attempted online enticement of a minor, United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Defendant Concealed that He Had Murdered Civilians and Prisoners of War During the 1990s Balkans Conflict.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Donald Lee Blackbird, age 59, of Vian, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Attempted Sexual Abuse Of A Minor, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1153, 2243(a) and 2246, punishable by not more than 15 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Steven Timothy Jolly (40) and Eric Mark Hamilton (34), both of Jacksonville, with manufacturing counterfeit Federal Reserve notes and possessing counterfeit Federal Reserve notes. If convicted, Jolly and Hamilton each face a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each count.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: California Doctor Convicted of Medicare Kickback Conspiracy.
