News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: PRESS RELEASE. Indianapolis United States Attorney Josh Minkler today announced federal charges against an illegal alien from Guatemala. Manuel Orrego-Zavala 37, was charged by a criminal complaint with illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien. “The defendant in this case allegedly re-entered...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman convicted of Misprision of a Felony was sentenced on February 5, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney R. Trent Shores will give testimony before the United States Sentencing Commission on Thursday, February 8, 2018, at 9:30 a.m. EST.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - David E. Schultz was sentenced to 96 months in prison for wire fraud. Schultz was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $452,376.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 26-year-old undocumented alien from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, has been ordered to prison following his conviction of conspiracy to import methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Eduardo Sanchez-Obregon pleaded guilty Oct. 3, 2017, to one count each of conspiracy to import more than 50 grams of methamphetamine and more than 500 grams of a mixture of methamphetamine.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
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By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced a three-count indictment charging TNUZA JAMAL HASSAN, 19, with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, arson, and making a false statement. HASSAN will make her initial appearance before a United States Magistrate Judge at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former pharmaceutical employee was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for accepting thousands of dollars in exchange for filling medically unnecessary prescriptions for compounded medications for herself and her husband, causing losses of $956,885, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that GABRIEL CARRETO-SANCHEZ, age 41, of New Orleans, has pleaded guilty to one count of Conspiracy to Distribute One Kilogram or more of Cocaine, and one count of Possession with the Intent to Distribute One Kilogram or more of Cocaine. The defendant faces a sentence of between five and forty years imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that Bradley S. Leffers, 47, formerly of McCook, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 2 years in prison by United States Senior District Judge Richard G. Kopf, for wire fraud. Leffers was also ordered to pay $712,066.64 in restitution and serve 3 years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: Thirty-six Defendants Indicted for Alleged Roles in Transnational Criminal Organization Responsible for More than $530 Million in Losses from Cybercrimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad has announced that yesterday, a federal jury found Otis Hunter (age 24) and Deshawn Evans (age 21) guilty of all charged counts. Otis Hunter was found guilty of conspiracy, three business robberies, two carjackings, and five counts of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. Deshawn Evans was found guilty of conspiracy, a business robbery, a carjacking, and two counts of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A man and woman from Laredo have been ordered to prison following their convictions of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Roberto Rodriguez, 30, and his girlfriend Maria Del Carmen Sarabia, 33, pleaded guilty July 6 and Sept. 7, 2017, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Feb. 1, 2018, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a four-count indictment against Alfredo Maysonet-Galarza, charging child pornography related offenses, announced today Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging a resident of Pittsburgh with violations of federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Joshua Lozo, age 36, of Troy, New York, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for receiving and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - William Detwiler, 68, a non-Indian who resides in Vanderwagon, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 150 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on child sexual abuse and kidnapping charges. Detwiler will be required to register as a sex offender after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 41-year old resident of Apodaca, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, has been ordered to prison for a conspiracy to import more than 10 kilograms of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Sergio Aguilar-Hernandez pleaded guilty Aug. 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lelander Mays, 32, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Red Mesa, Utah, was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 37 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on an involuntary manslaughter charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Irving Feldman, 62, of Pittsford, NY, who was convicted of food stamp fraud, was sentenced to 12 months in prison and ordered to pay $729,630 in restitution by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
