News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An instructional technology support specialist employed at a Shrewsbury, MA, middle school today admitted in federal court in Providence to travelling to Rhode Island in July 2016 with the intent to engage in illicit sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Benell English, 57, of Pensacola, was arraigned on Friday in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with eighteen counts of preparing false tax returns. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A member of MS-13’s Enfermos Criminales Salvatrucha (ECS) clique in Chelsea, Mass., was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for racketeering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man caught with heroin and a firearm in July 2017 was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Robert C. Chambers to 151 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Antonio Newson, 43, previously pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Juan Luis Ortiz Jimenez, age 32, and a citizen of Guatemala, was sentenced today to time served (74 days in jail) for possessing a fraudulent green card.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Fernando Garces, 25, of Portland, was sentenced today in federal court to two years of probation for aiming a laser pointer at a news helicopter.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: Beginning March 15 2018, National Park Service (NPS) contractors will continue park project to restore native plant communities on the east side of Salt River Bay NHP & EP (SARI). The project work area is on NPS’s 72-acre parcel adjacent to Estate Judith’s Fancy, where invasive non-native plant species’...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - Celia Nipper, aka Celia Arrand, was sentenced this afternoon to 51 months in prison for committing wire fraud, bank fraud, and filing false tax returns in connection with a scheme to embezzle funds from a real estate technology company, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse; Federal...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management is pleased to announce that the charters for 21 Resource Advisory Councils (RAC) have been renewed, and BLM RACs will be scheduling and holding meetings in the coming months.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Canoga Park man who worked with a tax preparer in a large stolen-identity and tax-refund fraud scheme was sentenced today to 52 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: (HAVRE, Mont.) - Livestock grazing is at the heart of the Bureau of Land Management and its multiple use mission, all the way back to the origins of the bureau, which was founded from the combination of the U.S. Grazing Service and the General Land Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: A pharmacist and his employee were sentenced on Friday for their involvement in a $30 million health care fraud scheme against Tricare, the health care program for military service members, veterans and their families. This case was largest health care fraud case involving the Tricare program to go to trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: POCATELLO - Alfredo J. Padilla, 59, of Pocatello, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 180 months in federal prison, followed by a life term of supervised release, for sexual exploitation of a minor, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: DENVER - A federal prison inmate already serving multiple federal sentences was sentenced to serve an additional 46 months in prison for assaulting and resisting a federal employee, announced U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: DENVER - A federal prison inmate already serving multiple federal sentences was sentenced to serve an additional 46 months in prison for assaulting and resisting a federal employee, announced U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Arkansas man, formerly of Marshall, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Arkansas man, formerly of Marshall, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Marlborough business owner and chief financial officer pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester in connection with a scheme to commit bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A Roanoke man, who fled from police following a traffic stop for an expired registration tag, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Roanoke to a federal drug charge. United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle, Tom Chittum Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Tyson Baker, age 43, of Etters, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to 42 months’ imprisonment and two years’ supervised release for theft of seized money that was evidence in two separate drug cases.