News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Abolghasseni “Abe" Alizadeh, 59, of Granite Bay, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud, bank fraud and making false statements to a federally insured financial institution, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Two central Massachusetts men were charged in separate indictments yesterday in federal court in Worcester in connection with marijuana grow operations. The defendants allegedly cultivated marijuana after federal search warrants were executed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Nathan Alexander Drury, 39, of Chico, pleaded guilty today to Production of Child Pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Filipino woman who fled from Japan to the United States before being arrested in Overland Park, Kan., was sentenced in federal court today for stealing the equivalent of nearly $100,000 at a U.S. Naval base in Japan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - On Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, Richard Macadangdang Sales, 68, made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria-Elena James in the Northern District of California after FBI agents from the Bend, Oregon Residence Agency escorted him back to the U.S. from Indonesia. In December...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Three smugglers have been sentenced to federal prison for transporting illegal aliens that resulted in one death, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. One alien died and two others received injuries resulting from a vehicle rollover.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: SIGNED INTO LAW: First Overhaul of Nation’s Tax Code in 31 Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Thomas Anderson was sentenced to 180 months in prison in connection with conspiracy charges involving the transportation of large quantities of marijuana and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Richard Cundari, of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay $307,500 to resolve civil fraud claims under the False Claims Act. The government’s claims concern allegations that Cundari applied for and received occupational disability annuities that he was ineligible to receive due to income earnings in excess of the applicable limits. The civil resolution was announced today by United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A 46-year-old illegal alien from Mexico was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in federal prison for trafficking cocaine and illegally re-entering the United States after having been deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Three Southern California men have been indicted on federal mail fraud charges that allege they solicited homeowners on the verge of foreclosure with bogus promises of loan modifications with interest rates as low as 2 percent.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Michael Shawn Garrett, 45, of Panama City Beach, Florida, a colonel in the Florida Air National Guard, was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday after being convicted on Oct. 17, 2017, of attempted enticement of a minor for sex. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - On Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2018, U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees sentenced Haley Raquel Rhodes, 23, of Blowing Rock, N.C. to 60 months in prison and five years of supervised release on drug trafficking charges, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Brother of San Diego Man Killed Fighting for ISIS Sentenced to 10 Years for Terrorism Related Charges and Illegal Firearms Possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Rod Hunt, 56, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 154 months in federal prison for bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during the robbery, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An alleged member of MS-13 pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to an immigration charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: The two leaders of the Detroit branch of the Rollin 60s Crips street gang were sentenced this morning for their roles in gang-related murders, shootings, and drug distribution. Jerome Hamilton and Darriyon Mills’s sentences follow their guilty pleas to RICO conspiracy and firearm charges and are the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: HUNTSVILLE - A federal judge this week sentenced a Sheffield man to more than 11 years in prison for possessing child pornography, including images of infants and toddlers being raped, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Peng Chanthalangsy, age 37, of Rogers, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 92 months in federal prison followed by fifteen years of supervised release on one count of Receipt of Child Pornography. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a Lawrence-based heroin trafficking conspiracy.
