News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault With a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Richard A. Council, 46, of Indianapolis, Indiana, was sentenced before Chief Judge Theresa L. Springmann on his plea of guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: Defendants Submitted a Letter to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons Containing False Statements to Fraudulently Obtain Early Release for an Inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: The United States filed a civil lawsuit today against Stephen Latman, a physician in the Reading, Pennsylvania area, alleging that he wrote improper opioid prescriptions for several of his patients, announced United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. According to the complaint, Latman issued 343 opioid prescriptions to three of his patients that lacked a legitimate medical purpose and were issued outside of the usual course of his professional practice.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months on her conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Adrianne D. Marquez, 42, of Socorro, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M, to a misdemeanor charge of theft of government property.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: Rensselaer County Schools, Government, and Organizations Rally Against Opiates.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 45-year-old Mexican national residing in San Juan has been sentenced for his leadership role in a drug trafficking case involving nearly 40 kilograms of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Carlos Guerrero pleaded guilty Aug. 28, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, woman charged with Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on March 19, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two members of the Gardena Police Department were charged by a federal grand jury with participating in a scheme in which they purchased "off-roster" firearms not available to the general public and illegally operated businesses that resold the weapons.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tarek Abou-Khatwa, also known as Dean Addem, 58, of Washington, D.C., has been indicted on charges that he defrauded CareFirst, a health care benefit program, and through his scheme, gained for himself in excess of $2 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on March 19, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: SEATTLE - Former Seattle police officer was sentenced on March 22, 2018, to six years in prison, and his co-conspirator in an interstate marijuana distribution scheme were also sentenced to 14 years in prison, in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Former officer Alex Chapackdee, 44, of Seattle pleaded guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: A two-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging attorney Scott Brettschneider, also known as “Mighty Whitey," Charles Gallman, also known as “T.A.," Richard Marshall, also known as “Love," and Reginald Shabazz-Muhammad, also known as “Reggie," with conspiring to make false...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management will soon conduct the Pole Creek Jackpot Prescribed Burn, located approximately 35 miles southeast of Jordan Valley, Oregon, on the western flanks of Juniper Mountain. Expected to take place during the first two weeks of April, ignitions will occur for two to three days with subsequent mop-up and patrol continuing for several days after.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two men today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers out of millions of dollars by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito and New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Jeff North, a previously convicted felon, has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for committing a violent carjacking and shooting the victim, and for unlawfully possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney, Richard W. Moore, announces that Joshua Roberts, a 38 year old, resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced to six months for a wire fraud conviction followed by consecutive two year sentences for two aggravated identity theft convictions, totaling 54 months of incarceration. Roberts was ordered to repay defrauded businesses $2,108.62 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Arson was sentenced on March 20, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
