News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dr. Muhammad A. Cheema, 45, of Pittsford, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with health care fraud and making false statements relating to health care matters. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: The former Chief Operating Officer of MetroHealth Hospital System and three other men were convicted by a jury for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud the hospital and others through a series of bribes and kickbacks totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars related to the hospital’s dental program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Columbus man caught selling crack cocaine within 1000 feet of Marshall University in July 2017 pled guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Shawn Bryson, also known as “Shorty," 27, entered his guilty plea to distributing crack cocaine within 1000 feet of Marshall University. Stuart commended the work of the Huntington Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dr. Muhammad A. Cheema, 45, of Pittsford, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with health care fraud and making false statements relating to health care matters. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months of probation, ordered to perform 75 hours of community service and ordered to pay $30,223 in restitution on her conviction of filing a false tax return, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Joshua Neal Krieger, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 50 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Vincent S. Edge, 37, of Detroit, was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for conspiring to distribute fentanyl, heroin, and oxycodone. Edge was also ordered to pay a $2,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Phiniqua Moore, age 19, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was charged on July 27, 2018, in a criminal information with maintaining a drug-involved premises.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking comments on a proposal from Seattle City Light (City Light) to build a new dock for tour boat operations on Diablo Lake in Ross Lake National Recreation Area (Ross Lake NRA). The environmental impacts of the proposed project have been analyzed through an Environmental...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: HONOLULU - A former military police officer stationed at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, was sentenced in federal court today to 15 years in prison for producing child pornography and for online exploitation and “sextortion" of a minor female.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Antonio Smith, 30 years old, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced to 63 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: MARTISNBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael Jacque Severe, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 71 months incarceration for distributing cocaine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: Western WY- The fire danger rating for Grand Teton National Park, Bridger-Teton National Forest and Teton Interagency Dispatch Area has increased to high. The potential for fire activity has increased due to normal summer curing of vegetation combined with hot temperatures and dry, windy afternoons. There are no fire restrictions in place at this time.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: LOVELAND, Colorado -- The Bureau of Reclamation has scheduled the annual public meeting to discuss the Ruedi Reservoir Water Operations for the 2018 water year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 39-year-old Edinburg man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of trafficking 131.6 kilograms of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Rogelio Ramos, a known member of the Vallucos street gang, pleaded guilty April 27, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Sterling woman today on health care fraud and tax charges for operating a fraudulent sleep study clinic in Northern Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Angel Xavier Catha, 21, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 97 months in prison followed by 20 years of supervised release. Catha had previously pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman who was caught selling heroin and fentanyl in 2016 pled guilty today in federal court in Huntington, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Ashley Dawn Russell, 26, entered a guilty plea to distribution of heroin and fentanyl before United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers. Stuart commended the investigative work done by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The FBI today arrested two Georgia residents on charges they took part in an interstate jury-duty scam, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and U.S. Marshal Martin Keely.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Charlottesville, Virginia man was sentenced today to 276 months in prison for production of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Thomas T. Cullen of the Western District of Virginia and Special Agent in Charge Patrick J. Lechleitner of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations Washington, D.C. field office.
