News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Came to the attention of federal authorities after arrest for public intoxication.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and FEMA awarded funding to the not-for-profit National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH) to deliver free, lifesaving trauma training to high school age students.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: LAKE CHARLES/SHREVEPORT/LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that two felons pleaded guilty and one was sentenced for possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: MISSOULA-U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme announced that Jennifer Lynn Marshall, of Butte, was sentenced on Wednesday to eight years in prison for conspiracy and firearms convictions in a methamphetamine trafficking case.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Dr. Vidal Sheen, 58, St. Louis County, Missouri, was sentenced today to two years’ probation, after previously pleading guilty to obstructing an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI") regarding whether he billed the Medicare program and private insurers for “face...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Ramon Lopez-Alvarado (59, Valles, Mexico) to 14 years in federal prison for illegal re-entry into the United States and failure to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). Lopez-Alvarado pleaded guilty to failure to register as a sex offender on July 27, 2018. A federal jury found him guilty of illegal re-entry on August 7, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Francisco Castaneda Rivera has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly transporting 4.5 kilograms of heroin - hidden inside a car battery - from Texas to the Atlanta area.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A resident of Washington County, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and of false bankruptcy declaration, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Defendant convicted of securities fraud repeatedly failed to appear in federal court for sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018 that United States District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman sentenced KALIQUE HARDIN, age 21, of Dallas, Texas, to a sixty-month and one-day term of imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted felon has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for illegally possessing two loaded semi-automatic handguns in a park in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Denver Community Credit Union Robbery. The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Denver Police Department need your help identifying a bank robber. The credit union where the robbery occurred is: Denver Community Credit Union. 15460 Andrews Drive. Denver, Colorado. Nov. 15, 2018, 1:45 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Asher Sharvit, age 29, formerly of New York, New York, and Oren Sharvit, age 28, formerly of Dover, Delaware, pleaded guilty yesterday to recruiting and hiring aliens for their Maryland business for purposes of profit. U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Asher Sharvit to 36 months and Oren Sharvit to 18 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Carlos Smiley was sentenced to federal prison for making false statements in his annual conflict of interest certification. Smiley was a long-time federal employee and Senior Contracting Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the former President of the Atlanta Chapter of the National Contract Management Association.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for sexually assaulting a child in the Philippines.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Dr. Vidal Sheen, 58, St. Louis County, Missouri, was sentenced today to two years’ probation, after previously pleading guilty to obstructing an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI") regarding whether he billed the Medicare program and private insurers for “face...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Saswaen Waukechon (age: 38), of Keshena, was sentenced on November 8, 2018 to 36 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release after a conviction for Involuntary Manslaughter on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The sentence was the result of a June 28, 2018, guilty plea before Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Errol Buggs, a principal finance analyst for Honeywell International, Inc., was sentenced to federal prison for embezzling more than $1.1 million from his employer in a fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Larry Willis, 33, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of possessing crack cocaine with intent to distribute, maintaining a drug involved premises, possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking activities, and being a felon-in-possession of firearms and explosives, was sentenced to serve 210 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
