News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On July 31, 2019, a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging Dr. Antonio REYES-VIZCARRONDO with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and one count of health care fraud. The defendant was arrested today, announced U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Indictment Unsealed Today Alleges that Defendants Concealed Millions of Dollars of Business Income and Lied to Lenders.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Han Gil hotel owner Su Amos Mun pleaded guilty today to maintaining a drug-involved premises, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Daniel Passero Faces a Minimum of 15 Years Imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Federal grand jury sitting in Lexington has indicted a former employee of the Kentucky Commission (now Office) for Children With Special Health Care Needs, on charges arising from allegations of theft from that agency. Diana Baker, 53, of Louisville, was charged with one count of mail fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, and four counts of theft from the state agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STANLEY HUGOCHUKWU NWOKE, also known as “Stanley Banks," “Banks," “Hugo Banks," “Banky," and “Jose Calderon," 28, a citizen of Nigeria, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment for his role in a business e-mail compromise scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: WORLAND, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Worland Field Office will partner with the community at the Salt Lick Trail on Saturday, Aug. 24, for a shared conservation stewardship project in early celebration of National Public Lands Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Detroit, Michigan man who possessed a mixture containing heroin and fentanyl for distribution in Cross Lanes, West Virginia was sentenced to 33 months in prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Stuart commended the investigation conducted by the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT). John Delaney Wilson, 36, previously plead guilty to possessing with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - The former Controller for a packaging company located in Export, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of wire fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sturgis, South Dakota, man has been sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court, for the November 2017 armed robbery of the Phillips 66 Speedy Mart in Spearfish.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jonathan D. Larsen, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (“IRS-CI"), and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: OCALA, Fla. - A federal jury today found Eric Pedro Valdez, 39, of Atlanta, guilty of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison. Valdez was indicted on Oct. 11, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Detroit-based musician and composer Andy Jarema was selected as August’s artist in residence at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park. This young and innovative composer creates site-specific work by using a mix of sound-collage techniques, his trumpet, and traditional scoring to make music inspired by the park’s fauna and geology.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Donald Wayne Wilson, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a man wanted for aggravated homicide in El Salvador.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, AR - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Erasmo Ortiz-Torres, age 41, was sentenced yesterday to 78 months in federal prison followed by deportation proceedings for illegally reentering the United States after being deported. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: All three defendants previously arrested on drug charges under the names of the victims whose identities they had stolen.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: OAKLAND - Saleem M. Khan was sentenced today to 30 months in prison related to his participation in an insider-trading conspiracy and related scheme, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr., U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Dominique Jamar McCann, 24, of Lexington, was sentenced yesterday, to 80 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Karen C. Caldwell, for possession with intent to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: A Lubbock man allegedly contemplating a mass shooting has been charged by criminal complaint with making false statements to a federally-licensed firearms dealer, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
