News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin made his initial appearance in federal court today following his extradition from the Czech Republic, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. He appeared before Jaqueline Scott Corley, United States Magistrate Judge in San Francisco.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - A Panhandle Texas man was sentenced this week to 212 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced Thair Zatar (46, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) to four years and three months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute synthetic marijuana, also known as “K2" or “Spice." He pleaded guilty on Aug. 21, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Geovane Jose Ferreira, 34, a Brazilian national, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to one count of unlawful reentry of a deported alien. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani scheduled sentencing for June 28, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: On March 22, 2018, Michael Brian Anderson, a local Tybee Island shrimper and fisherman, was convicted by a federal jury on three counts of false statements, four counts of mail fraud, and two counts of money laundering. United States District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. presided over Anderson’s three-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted sisters from Guatemala for fraudulently using someone else’s Social Security number and identification in order to misrepresent their immigration status and get jobs in Marion County, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Social Security Administration, Office of Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge Margaret Moore-Jackson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Two men were sentenced today to over a combined 22 years in prison for their role in a conspiracy to import heroin and cocaine into the United States from El Salvador.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Leslie Earle Alverson, age 50, of Greer, South Carolina, was recently sentenced in federal court in Greenville, South Carolina, for Possession of Child Pornography involving Prepubescent Minors, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B). United States District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks sentenced Alverson to 120 months (10 years) and supervised release for life.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Fairfax County man pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Ryan Romero, 51, of Gulf Breeze, Florida, and Adam W. Fair, 42, of Navarre, Florida, pled guilty yesterday and Wednesday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and honest services fraud. The guilty pleas were announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: A Lake Worth man has been charged federally with sex trafficking a minor and adults, and labor trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, defendants Joseph Atias and Sofia Atias were sentenced by United States District Judge Denis R. Hurley to 40 months’ and 28 months’ imprisonment, respectively, following their March 30, 2017 trial convictions for bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A South Carolina resident, Travis Daron Pitts, 51, was sentenced this morning by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 120 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in November 2017 to one count of enticement and attempted enticement of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. -- Two men pled guilty today for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Derrick Lamar Staples, 41, of Charleston, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute or possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, more...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The owner of a Canadian telemarketing operation was convicted yesterday by a federal jury of mail and wire fraud for having orchestrated a bogus telemarketing scheme that defrauded at least 60,000 victims of over $18 million dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: Defendants Fraudulently Engaged in Short Sale of Property Next to Sacred Heart Academy, Failing to Disclose Academy’s Offer for Property and Providing False Documents to Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RUBEN TORRES, also known as “Rube," “Ru," and “T," 26, of Hartford, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 78 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing heroin and crack cocaine in Hartford.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Joshua Durwin Parish, 37, of Laurel, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 63 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute 5 grams or more of actual methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge J. Derryle Smith. Parish was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: Pharmacy Owner and Pharmacist Sentenced to 160 Months in Prison for $4.3 Million Pain and Scar Cream Kickback Scheme Against Military Insurance Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Jonathan Brown (33, Winter Garden) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
