News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Caused Medicaid To Be Billed Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Frank Lee McCall, III, 29, of Silverhill, Alabama, was sentenced today for stealing a firearm and for being a felon in possession of firearms. McCall pled guilty to the two charges in August of 2018.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - This holiday season, Hanford Site workers and their families are donating their time, energy, and resources to a number of causes to brighten the lives of people throughout their local community.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Parker nurse Mary Panza, aka Mary Bowers, pled guilty today to obtaining a controlled substance by deceit in front of U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn, U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn and FDA Office of Criminal Investigations Special Agent in Charge Charles Grinstead announced. Panza worked at the Ridge View Endoscopy Center where she administered drugs, including fentanyl. The defendant will be sentenced on March 26, 2019. She is free on bond.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Anderson, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Dominick Larenzo Johnson, 33, of Greenville, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court in Anderson for being a felon in possession of a firearm. United States District Court Judge Timothy Cain of Anderson accepted Johnson’s guilty plea and sentenced him to 15 years in federal prison. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTOPHER BARRETO, 29, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing drugs involved in two overdose deaths in Enfield in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Kenneth Brian Fischer, age 40, of Westminster, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Lori Rae Baskin, age 50, of Swink, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Theft from Organization Receiving Federal Program Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 666(a)(1)(A), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine, or both.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: MOAB, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management plans to conduct prescribed burning of slash piles along the Colorado River along state Routes 128 and 279, and in the Kane Creek area near the Amasa Back parking lot. Slash-burning is a form of fire mitigation designed to keep public lands healthy and is expected to reduce wildfire risk for adjacent campgrounds, restore riparian ecosystem health, and enhance wildlife habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Grandview, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a three-months-long conspiracy that included at least 27 armed robberies, culminating in the armed robbery of a Walgreens in Blue Springs, Mo., in which a suspect was fatally shot by law enforcement officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Newly-released dash cam video shows the moment a drug trafficker with a distribution network worth hundreds of thousands of dollars fled the scene of an undercover drug buy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Oct. 20, 2017 Incident in Lowe’s Parking Lot in Kent, Resulted in Injuries to Two Assailants.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Independent Analysis by Department of Justice and Federal Monitor Validates Conclusion.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Lorene Deanda, 59, of Ceres, was arrested today on an indictment charging her with 10 counts of mail fraud and one count of conversion of Social Security benefit funds, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today. Deanda was charged by federal grand jury on December 6, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Princeton couple who were arrested after an investigation of multiple robberies earlier this year pled guilty to multiple federal charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Sarah K. Bailey, 39, and Michael Justin Bailey, 38, entered guilty pleas to conspiracy to commit...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Orange County woman who used her position at a Hawthorne-based credit union to secretly open more than 25 fraudulent lines of credit for her online boyfriend, extending more than $2.7 million in credit to him, has been found guilty of 15 federal charges, including fraud and conspiracy.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Remediation of Area IV and the Northern Buffer Zone of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) in Ventura County, California. Publishing the Final EIS is an important step to proceed with the cleanup process at SSFL's Area IV and the Northern Buffer Zone.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Fifteen defendants have been sentenced for their part in a ring that stole over $10 million in U.S. Treasury checks from the mail and then cashed them at Walmart and Kroger stores around the country using fake identifications. The sentences ranged from two to ten years in prison for members of the ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Eleuterio Flores, age 34, of Springdale, Arkansas was sentenced yesterday to 262 months in federal prison followed by twenty-five years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $10,000.00 fine on one count of Online Enticement of a Minor. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks, United States District Judge, presided over the sentencing hearing in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Jordan Thomas Prentice, 28, of Portland, was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography using a BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing network. Upon completion of his prison sentence, Prentice will be on supervised release for five years.
