News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced VICTOR EUGENE DORM, 30, of Wilmington to 240 months’ imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of BARRY RON SKOG, 68, for perpetrating a counterfeit coin fraud scheme. SKOG, who was indicted on April 10, 2018, entered his guilty plea earlier today before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three Union County, New Jersey, men have been charged with robbing liquor stores at gunpoint in November 2018, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Charles J. Chambers, of Moundsville, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Linda Sue Parnell Falsified Mileage Reimbursement Claims for More Than Six Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: A former Miramar Police Department employee pled guilty today to participating in a fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: k. Prince William Forest Park News Release. Kathy Kimmitz 703-221-3074. Youth Opportunity to Work In Local National Park. Prince William Forest Park, a unit of the National Park System, will be hosting a Youth Conservation Corp (YCC) work team during the summer of 2020. For over 25 years, youth from the...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the following statement after the announcement of Michael Cohen’s scheduled appearance before the Committee on Wednesday, February 27th...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that David Leon Smith II, age 28, of Ponder, Texas, entered a guilty plea to Transportation Of Stolen Vehicle, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2312 and 2, punishable by not more...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a nine-count superseding indictment today against Erik Razo-Quiroz, 29, of Merced; Adrian Virgen-Mendoza, 25, of Fairfield; Conrado Virgen Mendoza, 34, of Chowchilla; Erasmo Villegas-Suarez, 36, of Buttonwillow; Ana Leydi Cervantes-Sanchez, 31, of Newman;...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - John Lee McCloud, 29, of Fairfield, Ohio, was sentenced today, by United States District Judge David Bunning, to 140 months in federal prison, for trafficking in methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 45-year-old former pharmaceutical representative Holly Blakely, of San Antonio, TX, pleaded guilty for her role in an $8 million health care fraud scheme that netted her over $1 million, announced U.S. Attorney John Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Donna Pham, 46, of Ontario, Canada, pleaded guilty, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, to conspiracy to defraud the United States. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, WV- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has matched the U.S. Marshals Service’s offer of a $5,000 reward for information which leads to the arrest and apprehension of a suspect in the murder of a Virginia police officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Three men were arrested this morning on federal drug distribution charges alleging they conspired with a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy and others to steal more than 1,200 pounds of marijuana and $645,000 in cash and money orders during an armed robbery of a downtown Los Angeles warehouse that was staged to look like law enforcement was executing a search warrant.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Attorney Jeffrey Palmer Admits Embezzling More Than $339,000 From Clients and Underreporting Income to the Internal Revenue Service.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On Tuesday, Feb. 12, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Casa Grande and the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office arrested 45-year-old Scott Buckley of Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone National Park calls on photographers to share their spectacular Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem winter photos at the 10th Annual Winter Photo Festival that will be held Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, at the West Yellowstone Visitor Information Center at 7 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 50-year old resident of Hidalgo has been charged with bulk cash smuggling, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - U.S. Attorney Tim Garrison and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced today that a Marshfield, Mo., couple has been convicted by a federal trial jury of multiple fraud schemes totaling more than $1 million that involved Medicaid payments to their dental clinics, failing to pay over payroll taxes and collecting unemployment benefits they were not entitled to receive.
