News from December 2018
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Bakersfield Field Office has made available the scoping report for the supplemental environmental impact statement and potential Resource Management Plan amendment on hydraulic fracturing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man who was arrested yesterday after an hours-long standoff with police officers was indicted by a federal grand jury for attempted distribution and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Canadian national who worked as an accountant for a Massachusetts company was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for stealing nearly $600,000 from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - LEILANI HILLIS, 60, of Rockford, the former director of operations of a Rockford non-profit organization, was charged today in federal court with one count of mail fraud and one count of tax fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: Admitted Violating Protective Orders on Several Occasions, Plotting to Murder his Wife, Setting his Wife up to be Arrested as a Terrorist, and Soliciting a Man to Burn Down His Restaurant for Insurance Proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that SouthernCare, Inc., a hospice care provider, has agreed to pay $5,863,426 to the federal government to resolve allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims to Medicare for hospice care that was medically unnecessary or lacked documentation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that a man from Honduras pleaded guilty to making false statements after trying to obtain a Louisiana driver’s license illegally.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Pennsylvania men were caught with loaded guns in their carry-on bags by Transportation Security Administration officers within a two-day period. A Bethel Park man was stopped with his handgun yesterday and a Pittsburgh resident was caught with his loaded handgun this morning when each individual arrived at the security checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: Four individuals and a company were charged in a five-count indictment in connection with their operation of Jet Link, Inc., an aircraft parts broker based in Margate, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Friday, December 7, 2018, four men entered guilty pleas for their roles in the conspiracy to murder Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati-Casañas, a Federal Bureau of Prisons Correctional Officer, announced United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. Lieutenant Albarati was murdered on Feb. 26, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Armando Ernesto Abarca, 22, of Modesto, California, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to 168 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Jonathan Jamar Dickerson, a/k/a “Los," 29, of University City, Missouri, was sentenced to 240 months in prison for distributing fentanyl to another person, resulting in a fatal overdose.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: Four people were indicted in federal court for firearms violations. Indicted are: Jacob Moser, 28, Conneaut, Robert Howse, 24, of South Euclid, Anthony Clark, 37, of Cleveland, and James Horn, 40, of Cleveland. Moser possessed a Smith & Wesson SD40 VE pistol and 39 rounds of.40-caliber ammunition on ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Ariel Mendoza, 26, a citizen of Dominican Republic, pleaded guilty today to theft of mail and conspiracy to commit bank fraud, announced United States Attorney Scott W. Murray.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: Indictment Included Predicate Acts of Drug Trafficking, Loan Sharking, Gambling and Obstruction of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that Angel Prado, age 46, of Providence, Rhode Island, was sentenced yesterday to serve 10 years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani for transporting six kilograms of heroin from Chicago to Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Inflated Company’s Value and Revenue to Defraud Investors.
By State Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today will introduce a Senate joint resolution holding Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman responsible for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a former Saudi journalist and columnist for The Washington ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Craig Alan Castaneda has been found guilty by a jury of traveling from San Diego to Atlanta to have sex with a nine-year-old girl and of enticing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke has charged a Salem man with stealing multiple firearms from a federal firearms licensee in Dublin, Virginia. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and Thomas L. Chittum III, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Washington Field Division made the announcement.
