News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Keasbey, New Jersey, tax preparer was indicted today for allegedly using false information to increase his clients’ tax refunds and secretly diverting a portion of those funds into accounts that he controlled, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Marvin Ellis Grubb, Jr., of Maysville, West Virginia, was sentenced this week to 70 months incarceration for distributing methamphetamine and illegally possessing a firearm, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former radiologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center waived indictment and pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of unlawfully distributing controlled substances and health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Blake H. Handrick, 41, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James Peterson to four years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Handrick pleaded guilty to this charge on March 1, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: Photographer Ellen Augarten is the next Mesa Verde National Park Artist in Residence, from April 30 to May 12. During her residency, Ellen’s theme is "Focus on Fire: Beauty & Future," as she visits the sites of previous fires in the park, starting with the 1934 Wildhorse Fire scar, continuing up to the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that RUBEN MORALES, 45, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing drugs involved in two overdose deaths in December 2016.
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2018
Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Louisville International Airport would like to remind passengers to expect higher than usual passenger volume this weekend as travelers return home from the 2018 Kentucky Derby.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that TIMOTHY JACKSON, age 29, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced on Tuesday by United States District Court Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle. The defendant previously pled guilty to possession with the intent to distribute heroin and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jeremy Baney, age 47, an inmate at SCI Smithfield, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on May 2, 2018, before Senior United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to aiding and assisting in making false statements to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Mark Gillis, age 48, of Saranac Lake, New York, was sentenced today to time served, to be followed by 1 year of home detention, for defrauding customers of his brokerage firm out of nearly $400,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: Three people from Summit County were indicted in federal court after they were arrested with 1,500 pills stamped to look like Oxycodone but which were actually pills of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Marvin Ellis Grubb, Jr., of Maysville, West Virginia, was sentenced this week to 70 months incarceration for distributing methamphetamine and illegally possessing a firearm, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on May 1, 2018, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against a man involved in a fatal motor vehicle accident in the Legend Lake area of the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment charges...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Makyna Kancso, of Crawford, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 15 months incarceration for distributing oxycodone, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: JOSHUA E. POOLE, 40, of Sheridan, Wyoming was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on May 2, 2018 for transportation of child pornography. Poole was arrested in Sheridan, Wyoming. He received sixty months of imprisonment, to be followed by sixty months of supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Florida couple pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to their roles in a scheme that imported raw steroids from China and sold them over the internet to customers across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Monday, April 30, 2018, Daniel Lee Stone, age 48, of Solon, Iowa, appeared before United States Magistrate Judge Stephen B. Jackson, Jr., and pleaded guilty to cyberstalking announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STEVEN SINGH, also known as “Smurf," 39, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 122 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Warren man who allegedly communicated with and arranged to meet with a person he believed to be a 14-year-old girl with the intent of having her wear baby diapers while walking through a local mall and then engage in illicit sexual activity in the mall with her has been charged in federal court in Providence with attempted enticement and child pornography charges.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: MILLS, Wyoming -- The Wyoming Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation in Mills, Wyoming, has prepared the May snowmelt runoff forecasts and operating plans for the North Platte River Basin.
