News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Michael Miller and Melvin Goode Wentt have been sentenced for their roles in a bank fraud conspiracy involving seven defendants, over 80 fraudulently obtained auto loans, and $1.7 million in bank and credit union losses. Four other co-defendants previously pled guilty. One defendant is awaiting extradition from the United Kingdom.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE PENA, also known as “Papi," 58, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Jorge Alberto Perez, 57, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 24 months in federal prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Jere. T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans. Perez was also ordered to pay a $1,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Marshal Marshall, 37, formerly of Broken Bow, Nebraska, was sentenced Thursday in Lincoln, Nebraska, to the maximum sentence of 10 years in prison by Senior United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf. Marshall had previously entered pleas of guilty to cyberstalking. In addition to his prison sentence, Marshall will be required to serve 3 years on supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: MADRAS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation will temporarily close the North Shore Fishing Pier recreation area from September 9 through September 30 to perform road and parking lot paving improvements. The North Shore Fishing Pier recreation area, which is located at the Haystack Reservoir, is a free day-use area with an accessible fishing pier, parking and access to the reservoir. Haystack Reservoir is located about 10 miles south of Madras.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Marquis Benjamin Lewis, 41, of Lexington, was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison today, by United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, after pleading guilty to possessing cocaine and mixtures of heroin and fentanyl with the intent to distribute them, possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today returned an eight-count superseding indictment that charges a Lynwood man with being the organizer and leader of a crew that committed at least 15 armed robberies of independent and “mom-and-pop" pharmacies across Southern California. The robbers allegedly stole a variety of prescription medications - in particular, oxycodone - with the intent of selling the stolen drugs on the black market.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: CINCINNATI - Two former members of an Ohio militia group heave pleaded guilty to violating the National Firearms Act by conspiring to possess destructive devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - A federal jury has found Karen Collins (51, Jacksonville) guilty of one count of conspiracy to import at least five kilograms of cocaine. She faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for Nov. 19, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - A Dayton man was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 84 additional months in prison for crimes related to an Indiana robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JASON MICKEL ELCOCK, a/k/a “Prezzi," was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 57 months in prison for engaging in a decade-long scheme to steal personal and financial information from tens...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that a Skagway man has been sentenced for illegally exporting a raw ivory tusk, using falsified forms to have it admitted to Indonesia, and thereafter illegally importing the carved tusk, for sale, back into the United States.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
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By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JEFFREY GOLDSTEIN, a doctor who practiced in Manhattan, pled guilty today to conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, in connection with a scheme to prescribe Subsys, a potent fentanyl-based spray...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: ASHLAND, Ky. - An Ashland addiction treatment specialist, Dr. Rose O. Uradu, and her substance abuse treatment center, Ultimate Care Medical Services, LLC d/b/a Ultimate Treatment Center, have agreed to pay $1.4 million to resolve civil allegations that they violated the Controlled Substances Act, and defrauded the Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 51-year-old resident of Conroe has been found guilty of making false statements on Social Security forms, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with Special Agent in Charge Adam D. Schneider of the Social Security Administration - OIG (SSA-OIG), Dallas Field Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: A Toledo man was indicted on charges that he attempted to for attempting to launder more than $138,000 in drug profits at the Hollywood Casino.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - One woman and two men from Laredo were arrested and charged Aug. 16, 2019, with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States by knowingly making a false statement in connection with the purchase of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
