News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Roberto Joe Miguel Serpa, 39, of Caldwell, was sentenced this week for his role in two federal drug crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis. Serpa was sentenced on April 16, 2019, to 126 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release. Serpa was sentenced by U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Peter Garces, 22, of the Bronx, New York, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to credit card fraud. The charge arises from an investigation into fraud committed at three Maine Home Depot stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Laurence Savedoff, Esq., 44, of New City, NY, who was convicted of misprision of a felony, was sentenced to serve four months in prison by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Hemalkumar Shah (27, citizen of India, residing in Tampa) to eight years and six months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft related to his participation in an Indian call center scam. As part of Shah’s sentence, the court also entered a money judgment of $80,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that a federal jury found Bernard Lindsay, 41, of Concord, New Hampshire, guilty of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, fentanyl, and methamphetamine. The verdict was returned on Wednesday, April 17, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A St. Joseph, Mo., in-home health care nursing assistant was sentenced in federal court today for stealing bank account information from one of her clients in order to illegally transfer more than $207,000 out of her account.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - A Laguna Hills man has been arrested on federal charges alleging he oversaw a scheme that smuggled counterfeit Apple and Samsung cell phone components from China that were sold in the United States, generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Terry L. Zintel, 62, of Sunset Hills, MO, was sentenced to 1 year and 1 day in prison for three counts of falsifying claims. He appeared in federal court yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Henry Autrey and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $531,947.75.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - An illegally present Haitian national was sentenced yesterday to two years in federal prison for aggravated identity theft. This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Removal Operations (ERO), as part of Homeland Security Investigation’s (HSI) Document and Benefit Fraud Task Force, and the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Robert C. Logel, 55, of Williamsville, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to wire fraud and tax evasion. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Altoona, Pa. has been sentenced in federal court in Johnstown to 80 months in prison and ten years’ supervised release on his conviction of distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: A complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Akmal Narzikulov and Sherzod Mukumov with kidnapping. Narzikulov and Mukumov were arrested this morning, and are scheduled to make their initial appearances this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Vera M. Scanlon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Suzanne Muscara, 37, of Burlington, Maine, was indicted yesterday for mailing a threatening communication to Senator Susan Collins.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: Scheme Aimed to Defraud Victims of More than $450,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. -- A Somerset County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for illegally exporting from the United States a wide array of weapons, including assault rifles, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Rogelio Mueses, 26, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, butyryl fentanyl, 4-fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl, and fentanyl. The charge carries a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: Douglas Earles, 60, of White Lake pleaded guilty to conspiring with co-defendant, James Warner, a field inspector at the Wayne County Airport Authority (WCAA), to steal over $100,000 from the airport between June of 2010 and August of 2013, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX- On April 15, 2019, Corey Slinkey, 42 of Fort Defiance, Ariz., was sentenced by District Judge Susan M. Brnovich to 46 months’ imprisonment. Slinkey had previously pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
Release: NEW YORK - A man from Queens, New York, was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport Saturday, April 13, after Transportation Security Administration officers detected a handgun artfully concealed inside a DVD player.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Sharday Monique Thomas, 32, of Hammond, Louisiana, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan, III to serve 41 months in federal prison for a wire fraud scheme in which she sought to fraudulently obtain money by faking her own kidnapping, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze. Her prison sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release.
