News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that a federal jury found Floyd Calhoun “Cal" Dent, III, of Lexington, South Carolina, and his two co-conspirators liable for defrauding the federal healthcare programs Medicare and Tricare of over $51 million. The unanimous verdict was handed down on Jan. 31, 2018, by a federal jury in Charleston, South Carolina.
By State Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on the latest reports from Burma...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Jahmir Antoine Robinson has been sentenced to four years, six months in federal prison for running a stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) scheme after he stole the identities of 153 people, and caused a tax loss of approximately $409,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida -U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. has sentenced Clayton Junior Thornburg (55, Iuka, Mississippi) to 28 years in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity, attempting to transfer obscene material to a minor, transporting child pornography, and being a registered sex offender who committed another sex offense involving a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Donald J. Meachum, age 21, of Elkhart, Indiana was sentenced before District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for one count of receipt of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: On Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, Haleakalā National Park will hold a public meeting to outline a proposed fee increase for the tri-park annual pass. The meeting will be held from 5pm-6:30pm at the Pukalani Community Center, in the building next to the pool. Public comments will also be accepted at park visitor centers, online, or via email or postal mail from February 1-March 2, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - The Justice Department announced today it has reached a settlement to resolve a lawsuit alleging discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin by Ayman Jarrah and Land Guardian Inc., the owners and operators of 360 Midtown, a sports bar and lounge located in Houston.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that NELSON MARQUEZ, 31, of West Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A Lubbock, Texas man, Steven Lawrence Forcum, 32, appeared yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Judge D. Gordon Bryant Jr. and pleaded guilty to a federal offense stemming from his role in a large-scale furanyl fentanyl distribution conspiracy, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, woman convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Jan. 22, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, Sonny Donnie Smith, 38, of Clackamas, Oregon, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to making anonymous harassing telephone calls to two airports, in violation of 47 U.S.C. § 223(a)(1)(C). Smith waived indictment by a federal grand jury and pleaded guilty to an information filed by the United States Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Anyi (“Angie") Artica-Romero (32) and Milton Noel Romero (35), both of Orlando, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Both are Honduran citizens who do not have legal status in the United States, and each...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JARON BIAS, age 25, of New Orleans, has been charged in a multiple count indictment which charges him in a heroin conspiracy for distributing heroin in the Black Pearl neighborhood in New Orleans and in Jefferson Parish.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Donald J. Meachum, age 21, of Elkhart, Indiana was sentenced before District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for one count of receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Ordered to pay $747,455.30 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Scranton returned a second superseding indictment on Jan. 30, 2018, charging two additional defendants, Arthur Taylor, age 35, of Tobyhanna, PA and Jordan Capone, age 23, of Mt. Pocono, PA, with participating in Monroe County-based drug and sex trafficking conspiracies.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Prince William Forest Park, a unit of the National Park System, will be hosting a Youth Conservation Corp (YCC) work team during the summer of 2018. For over 25 years, youth from the area have worked on Park resources such as trails, historic buildings and landscapes by helping to rehabilitate historic...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: MARTISNBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jarius Jovanghn Styles, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearm charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Six people have now been sentenced in U.S. District Court in Seattle for their roles in an organized crime ring involved with prostitution, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. The leader of the ring, FANG WANG, 29, of Queens, New York, was sentenced last month to 30 months in prison. At her sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Zilly said the “nature of the offense is very troubling to the court.".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Jason Solomon, 42, of Stockton, charging him with distribution of child pornography and possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
