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November 06, 2009
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — Yesterday, U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a suspected smuggler and seized a significant amount of crystal methamphetamine being transported northbound on Interstate 5.
At around 11:15 a.m., agents on patrol stopped a Dodge Durango truck near the Avenida Magdalen...
November 06, 2009
Vehicle was found inside of a container bound to Europe.
LOS ANGELES — As a result of an outbound operation at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials seized a 1965 Volkswagen Bus which was reported stolen in Spokane, WA more than 35 years ago.
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October 29, 2009
A Los Angeles man wanted by multiple agencies in connection with at least four murders and various other crimes has been added to the FBI´s list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, it was announced today by Keith Bolcar, Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI in Los Angeles, and officials wi...
October 29, 2009
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today announced the addition of Semion Mogilevich to its "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list. Mogilevich is being sought for his alleged involvement in racketeering, fraud, and money laundering activities. He should be considered armed and extremely dangerous.
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October 29, 2009
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced the addition of Eduardo Ravelo, aka "Tablas," to its "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list. Ravelo is being sought for his alleged involvement in the Barrio Azteca transnational gang and their racketeering, money laundering and drug-related activities i...
October 29, 2009
HOUSTON—Elliott R. Hernandez, 44, of Houston, a District Adjudications Officer with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), has been charged with bribery, fraud in connection with a computer and receiving something of value in exchange for perfor...
October 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—Three Ohio residents, Mohammad Zaki Amawi, 29, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, 46, and Wassim I. Mazloum, 28, have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from more than eight years to 20 years for conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas, including U.S. military person...
October 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—Tommy Handy, aka "Tom Tom," waved indictment and pleaded guilty in federal court in Little Rock, Ark., to a federal charge of sex trafficking of an underage female, announced Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Jane W. Duke, U.S. Attorney for t...
October 29, 2009
More than 1,000 police officers and federal agents executed dozens of arrest and search warrants this morning in a coordinated operation in which members of a violent street gang were taken into custody for their alleged roles in the widespread distribution of narcotics. The results of today´s...
October 29, 2009
TUCSON, AZ—Joseph William Nichols, 31, of Tucson, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge David C. Bury to 33 months in federal prison, to be served following his sentence for bank robbery. Nichols pleaded guilty on August 13, 2009 to possessing contraband in prison.
Nichols was an inmat...
October 29, 2009
BALTIMORE, MD—U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Mouyad Mahmoud Darwish, age 48, formerly of Maryland, today to 15 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for making a false statement in connection with an immigration matter, announced United States Attorne...
October 29, 2009
United States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt announced dispositions in five separate cases in federal court in San Diego involving child pornography. United States Attorney Hewitt stated that the number of prosecutions of child pornography cases prosecuted by the United States Attorney´s Office in S...
October 29, 2009
JACKSONVILLE, FL—U.S. Attorney Brian A. Albritton announces that U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Marvin Leigh Madkins (age 29, of Virginia) to 50 years in federal prison for sex trafficking of minors and transporting minors across state lines for prostitution. A feder...
October 29, 2009
LITTLE ROCK—Jane W. Duke, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, along with Thomas J. Browne, Special-Agent-in-Charge of the Little Rock Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today the sentencings of Dr. Jay Holland, of Little Rock, Arkansas; Sarah El...
October 29, 2009
BALTIMORE, MD—U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Mouyad Mahmoud Darwish, age 48, formerly of Maryland, today to 15 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for making a false statement in connection with an immigration matter, announced United States Attorne...
October 29, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Division, announced that one-time Norte Valle Cartel kingpin and former FBI Top Ten fugitive Diego Montoya Sanchez, a/k/a ...
October 29, 2009
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated Amroggang Development Bank (Amroggang) as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction under Executive Order (E.O.) 13382 for being owned or controlled by North Korea's Tanchon Commercial Bank (Tanchon). Treasury also today designate...
October 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—A former U.S. Army contracting official was sentenced today to 40 months in prison for accepting more than $80,000 in bribes in exchange for corruptly providing contract work to two Afghan trucking companies, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Bre...
October 29, 2009
BIRMINGHAM—A federal judge Thursday sentenced a former bank president to 10 months in prison on charges he stole $171,913 from the bank where he worked, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.
U.S. District Judge R. David Proctor sentenced BOBBY SORRELLS, 72, of Hartford, and ordered him...
October 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—Twenty defendants, most of them residing in the Los Angeles area, have been charged in seven cases for allegedly participating in Medicare fraud schemes that resulted in more than $26 million in fraudulent bills to the Medicare program, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Cr...
October 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—Erin Sharma, a former corrections officer with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, was sentenced today in federal court in Orlando, Fla., on federal civil rights charges related to the fatal assault of an inmate, announced Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez of the Civil Rights Di...
October 23, 2009
BECKLEY, WV—A federal inmate serving a prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Beckley, West Virginia was sentenced today to 27 months' imprisonment for possessing a weapon inside the prison. Miguel Rodriguez, 33, of Brandenburg, Kentucky, previously pled guilty in June 2009...
October 23, 2009
WASHINGTON—Solomon Nathaniel of Sterling Heights, Mich., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Detroit to participating in a conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg of the Ea...
October 23, 2009
NEWPORT NEWS, VA—Two men were sentenced today for operating an elaborate scheme seeking to defraud financial institutions—largely servicing military members—of approximately $1.5 million.
Joseph M. Cherry, II, 29, of Norfolk, Va., was sentenced to 112 months in prison followed b...
October 23, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that VICTOR ESTEVES, also known as "Gadget," 35, of Hillside Avenue, Hartford, was sentenced on Friday, October 16, by Senior United States District Judge Peter C. Dorsey in New Haven to 72 months of imprisonmen...
October 23, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TIMOTHY P. HEIDEL, 53, of Kings Mills, Ohio, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Peter C. Dorsey in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, fo...
October 23, 2009
OAKLAND, CA—Hassan Swaid was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for conspiring to purchase stolen merchandise from major retailers and shipping the stolen goods to out of state customers, and for structuring his finances to avoid currency transaction reports, United States Attorney Joseph ...
October 23, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, VA—Mark Allen Jackson, 43, of Alexandria, Va., pleaded guilty today to traveling across state lines to have sex with a high school student.
Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Joseph Persichini Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the F...
October 23, 2009
BOSTON—PHARMACIA & UPJOHN COMPANY, INC., a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc ("Pfizer") today was sentenced today in federal court for a felony violation of the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act, for misbranding the drug, Bextra, with the intent to defraud or mislead. PHARMACIA & UPJOHN COMPANY, INC. was sente...
October 23, 2009
Former Naval Recruiter Sentenced for Attempted Sex Trafficking of a Child
Human Trafficking Rescue Project: Operation Guardian Angel
KANSAS CITY, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Olathe, Kan., man was sentenced in fede...
October 23, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, VA.—Two members of MS-13 were sentenced today to life in prison for killing a rival gang member outside the Cerro Grande restaurant in Springfield, Va. Another gang member, Jorge Parada, aka "Rama," 29, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 300 months in prison for conspiring to di...
October 23, 2009
PHILADELPHIA—Habib Khan, 49, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for crimes relating to his operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business, announced United States Attorney Michael L. Levy. Khan, a citizen of Pakistan, pleaded guilty last April, admitting that h...
October 23, 2009
HOUSTON—A former accounting supervisor for a Houston area chemicals company has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $3.6 million from her employer, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today.
Diana Simon, 49, of Sugar Land, Texas, appeared before United States District Judge Kenn...
October 23, 2009
WASHINGTON—A Maryland scientist who once worked in varying capacities for the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been arrested for attempted espionage, David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Channing ...
October 23, 2009
BALTIMORE, MD—U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Kara McIntosh, age 47, of Bethesda, Maryland, today to three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for mail fraud arising from the fraudulent purchase of properties in Maryland and the District of Columbia u...
October 23, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and J. Thomas Cardwell, Commissioner, State of Florida, Office of Financial Regulation, announced that defendant Michael Riolo, 38, of Boc...
October 23, 2009
PHILADELPHIA—S. Michael Palermo, 69, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with former State Senator Vincent Fumo to receive a contract from the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Appropriations Committee ("SDAC"), under which Palermo received $287,000 in state funds between 1999 and...
October 23, 2009
HUNTINGTON, WV—Matthew D. Pennington, 29, of Huntington, West Virginia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers to 27 months' imprisonment for aiding and abetting the theft of mail. Pennington pled guilty on April 27, 2009, admitting he helped take four bags of m...
October 23, 2009
PHOENIX—Ambrose Bennett, 26, of Tonalea, Ariz., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake to 27 months in federal prison for Second Degree Burglary. On July 29, 2009, Bennett pleaded guilty in federal court.
On December 8, 2008, Bennett; co-defendant, Eric Kinney; and a j...
October 23, 2009
Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, announced today that during a federal court session in Great Falls on October 16, 2009, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, R-LYNN DEAN LITTLEDOG, a 22-year-old resident of Browning, pled guilty to abusive sexual contact. Sentenc...
October 23, 2009
Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, announced today that during a federal court session in Great Falls on October 16, 2009, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, R-LYNN DEAN LITTLEDOG, a 22-year-old resident of Browning, pled guilty to abusive sexual contact. Sentenc...
October 23, 2009
CONCORD, NH—United States Attorney John P. Kacavas, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Warren Bamford, and New London Police Chief David Seastrand announced today that Serge Eric Bayard, of New London, New Hampshire, was convicted on October 14, 2009 after a three-d...
October 23, 2009
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MATTHEW D. WEITZMAN, a former principal of AFW Asset Management, Inc., doing business as AFW Wealth Advisers, Inc. ("AFW"), pleaded guilty today to fraud charges related to his misappropriation of million...
October 23, 2009
SACRAMENTO, CA—United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced today that RONALD EUGENE BERNAL, 48, of Susanville, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Frank C. Damrell Jr. to two counts of the production and possession of child pornography.
This case is the product o...
October 23, 2009
John E. Murphy, Acting United States Attorney, announced that in Waco, 68-year-old Julia Ann Schmidt of Whitney, Texas, stands charged with two counts of mail fraud in connection with a large-scale Ponzi scheme.
A federal grand jury indictment returned last week alleges that between April 2007 an...
October 23, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MIGUEL RIVERA, 34, formerly of Palisade Avenue, Bridgeport, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport to 66 months of imprisonment for illegally possessing a firearm and poss...
October 23, 2009
GREENBELT, MD—U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Akinyeme Bamisaiye, a/k/a Yemi Olufemi Bamisaiye, age 41, of Clarksville, Maryland and Sajjad Nazar Mahar, age 49, of Kearneysville, West Virginia, each to 52 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, in connecti...
October 23, 2009
GREENBELT, MD—Michael Speelman, age 52, of Adelphi, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to transportation and shipment of child pornography, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.
According to Speelman´s plea agreement, in 2004, he assumed the onli...
October 23, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today issued a new form to aid the processing of mortgage applications under the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) as part of the Making Home Affordable Program. The new form will make it simpler for people, especially homeowners trying to mo...
October 23, 2009
BOSTON—A Sudbury, Mass., man was charged today in federal court with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.
Acting U.S. Attorney Michael K. Loucks and Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI - Boston Field Division, announced today that Tarek Mehanna, 27, of 6 F...
October 23, 2009
WASHINGTON—Twenty defendants, most of them residing in the Los Angeles area, have been charged in seven cases for allegedly participating in Medicare fraud schemes that resulted in more than $26 million in fraudulent bills to the Medicare program, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Cr...
October 23, 2009
Wanda J. Smith, 42, former employee of the City of Dearborn Building and Safety Department was charged by information today with accepting bribes in return for issuing permits for work to be performed on residential property in the City of Dearborn.
United States Attorney Terrence G. Berg was joi...
October 23, 2009
EUGENE, OR—Kim Scott Graham, a former Cottage Grove police officer, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, to one count of possession of child pornography before United States Chief District Judge Ann L. Aiken. The maximum statutory penalty for the offense is a 10-year term of imprison...
October 23, 2009
KANSAS CITY, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Kansas City, Mo., men were indicted by a federal grand jury today in separate cases related to child pornography.
James Phillip "Phil" Edwards, 60, of Kansas City, was charged ...
October 23, 2009
SPRINGFIELD, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Diamond, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with the armed robbery of the U.S. Bank in Neosho, Mo.
Richard Allan Bratt, 57, of Diamond, was charged in a federal criminal...
October 23, 2009
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that a federal grand jury returned an Indictment today against GUILLERMO A. CLAMENS, the Chairman of New York-based brokerage firm FTC Capital Markets, charging him with conspiracy, securities fraud and wire f...
October 23, 2009
SACRAMENTO, CA—United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced today the unsealing of an indictment that was returned by a federal grand jury on October 15, 2009. The indictment charges SAEED UR RAHMAN, of Stockton, with three counts of tax evasion.
This case is the product of a joint in...
October 23, 2009
PHILADELPHIA—Sean O´Neill, 49, of Willistown Township, PA, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for three counts of immigration fraud, one count of illegal possession of a firearm silencer without a serial number, and one count of conspiracy to commit tax fraud, announced United St...
October 23, 2009
NEWARK—The former owner of two medical billing companies was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison today for engaging in a scheme to defraud insurance companies that provided no-fault medical benefits to motorists, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wig...
October 23, 2009
McALLEN, TX—A fugitive who was indicted last year on three counts of wire fraud for operating a multi-million dollar fraud scheme has been arrested near Toronto, Canada, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Francisco Beltran, 42, formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, was taken into custo...
October 23, 2009
NEWARK—Monmouth County real estate developer Solomon Dwek pleaded guilty today to bank fraud and money laundering charges in connection with his scheme to defraud PNC Bank of more than $50 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
Dwek, 37, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge ...
October 23, 2009
Five people were arrested on federal warrants early this morning in Pierce County and are charged with Conspiracy to Distribute a controlled substance – Oxycodone. BILLY MIRANDA FLORES, 40, of Puyallup, and BILL CELEYA FLORES, 59, of Tacoma, were taken into custody early this morning and will appear...
October 23, 2009
LITTLE ROCK—Jane W. Duke, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Thomas J. Browne, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced Doyle D. Peal, age 58, of Benton, Arkansas, was sentenced by Chief United...
October 23, 2009
NORFOLK, VA—Clover May Robinson-Gordon, 44, of Montego Bay, St. James, Jamaica, was found guilty of one count of conspiracy and five counts of money laundering by a federal jury after the conclusion of an eight-day trial before United States District Judge Mark S. Davis. She is scheduled to be...
October 23, 2009
SACRAMENTO, CA—United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced today that MARK KESSELL, 51, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge John A. Mendez to 52 months in federal prison. He had previously pleaded guilty to one count of possessing child pornography o...
October 23, 2009
MADISON, WI—Stephen P. Sinnott, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Virginia Martinez Castillo, 21, of Honduras, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb to four months in prison for bank fraud. Castillo pleaded guilty to t...
October 23, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Division, announced that one-time Norte Valle Cartel kingpin and former FBI Top Ten fugitive Diego Montoya Sanchez, a/k/a ...
October 23, 2009
BOSTON, MA—Two former Boston firefighters were charged in federal court with fraud involving their applications for accidental disability pensions, and a clerk in the Boston Fire Department was charged with perjuring herself and obstructing the grand jury investigation in this matter.
Actin...
October 23, 2009
SACRAMENTO, CA—United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced today the unsealing of a six-count indictment that was returned by a federal grand jury on October 15, 2009. The indictment charges OBED UR RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD NASIR KHAN, of Stockton, and SHAKER AHMED, with conspiring to defraud t...
October 23, 2009
ST. LOUIS, MO—Julie Lynn Wagman was sentenced to five months in prison, followed by five months of home confinement for concealing assets in her bankruptcy petition, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap announced today. She was also ordered to pay $54,400 restitution to the Bankruptcy...
October 23, 2009
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated Mexican national Edgardo Leyva Escandon, five members of his financial network, and one Mexico-based company as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers for their ties to the Arellano Felix ...
October 23, 2009
WASHINGTON—Today Attorney General Eric Holder announced the arrest of nearly 1,200 individuals on narcotics-related charges and the seizure of more than 11.7 tons of narcotics as part of a 44-month multi-agency law enforcement investigation known as "Project Coronado." The Attorney General was...
October 23, 2009
WASHINGTON—Three Ohio residents, Mohammad Zaki Amawi, 29, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, 46, and Wassim I. Mazloum, 28, have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from more than eight years to 20 years for conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas, including U.S. military person...
October 23, 2009
United States Attorney Michelle L. Jacobs announced today that two indictments were unsealed in federal court charging 41 defendants with various drug-trafficking offenses. The defendants, many of whom are alleged to be members of the Vice Lords and North Side Gangster Disciples street gangs, are ch...
October 23, 2009
United States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt announced today that, within the last week, Jesus "Chuy" Labra-Aviles, Efrain Perez, Jorge Aureliano Felix, and Armando Martinez-Duarte pled guilty in United States District Court to charges arising from their leadership of the Arellano-Felix drug trafficking o...
October 23, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, VA—Nine individuals were arrested this morning on cocaine trafficking charges as part of an ongoing investigation of cocaine dealers working in and around Springfield, Va. Two subjects were already in custody for unrelated state charges.
Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney ...
October 23, 2009
PHOENIX—Harry Tso, Jr.,39, of Window Rock, Ariz., was arraigned in federal court yesterday on one count of Embezzlement from an Indian Tribal Organization. He pleaded not guilty to the charge in the indictment. Trial is scheduled for December 1, 2009, in Prescott, Ariz.
The indictment alleg...
October 23, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Division, announced that defendant Maria F. Hernandez, 62, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced yesterday for her participatio...
October 23, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Division, announced that defendant Maria F. Hernandez, 62, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced yesterday for her participatio...
October 23, 2009
PORTLAND, OR—A Happy Valley man was sentenced to a lengthy term of imprisonment this morning in federal court following his conviction in a significant child exploitation case. Julius Xavier Hexon, 45, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Garr M. King to 20 years in prison, followed by ...
October 23, 2009
PHOENIX—Former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Jose Carmelo Magana, 46, of Yuma, Ariz., pleaded guilty today on charges of Attempting to Bring Illegal Aliens into the United States and Acceptance of a Bribe by a Public Official. Sentencing for Magana is set before U.S. District Judg...
October 23, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO—A federal grand jury indicted Rogelio (aka Roger) Lowe yesterday with two counts of mail fraud and nine counts of making or using a false document or writing, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced.
Lowe, 43, of Thornton, Calif., is charged with engaging in a s...
October 23, 2009
A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on October 21, 2009, GREGORY HOGAN, age 34, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to life imprisonment. HOGAN was convicted on July 2, 2009, following a jury trial in U.S. District Court in East St. L...
October 23, 2009
ATLANTA, GA—IAN JAY EVANS, 49, of Mableton, Georgia, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, and 17 additional counts of money laundering, related to bribes that he allegedly paid to...
October 23, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—Today, Dawena Pappan, 39, of Ponca City, Oklahoma, pled guilty before United States District Judge Robin Cauthron to embezzling funds from the Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
Pappa...
October 23, 2009
PHILADELPHIA—Kevin O´Shea, 50, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for mail fraud, theft from a federally funded program, and filing a false tax return. At the time of the crimes, O´Shea was working for and defrauding the Philadelphia Academy Charter School ...
October 23, 2009
PHILADELPHIA—Kevin O´Shea, 50, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for mail fraud, theft from a federally funded program, and filing a false tax return. At the time of the crimes, O´Shea was working for and defrauding the Philadelphia Academy Charter School ...
October 23, 2009
LOUISVILLE, KY—A federal grand jury in Louisville returned an indictment against Christon L. Crabtree, age 32, of Fernandina Beach, Florida, on charges of stalking his wife on Fort Knox, United States Attorney Candace G. Hill of the Western District of Kentucky announced today.
The Indictme...
October 23, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC--The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated German national Bekkay Harrach, an al-Qa'ida member believed to be currently located in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area, for acting for or on behalf of al-Qa'ida. Today's action, pursuant to Executive Order 13224, freezes any...
October 23, 2009
Melhado, Flynn & Associates ("MFA"), a broker-dealer and investment advisor registered with the former National Association of Securities Dealers, pled guilty this afternoon to conducting a long-running securities fraud before United States District Judge Arthur D. Spatt. George Motz, MFA´s co...
October 23, 2009
DETROIT—A federal indictment was unsealed late yesterday in Detroit charging Xiang Dong Yu, aka Mike Yu, 47, of Beijing, China, with theft of trade secrets, attempted theft of trade secrets and unauthorized access to a protected computer, announced Terrence Berg, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern ...
October 23, 2009
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), RICHARD H. NEIMAN, the Superintendent of Banks for New York State, RENE FEBLES, th...
October 23, 2009
CHICAGO—A north suburban defense contractor has agreed to pay the United States a $2.5 million criminal fine and an additional $22.5 million civil judgment to settle federal allegations that it overcharged the government in a series of military contracts extending over a decade, ending in 2005...
October 23, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, VA—Daniel A. Woolverton, 34, of Arlington, Va., was arrested today on child pornography production and distribution charges.
Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Joseph Persichini Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI Washington F...
October 23, 2009
KANSAS CITY, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the owner and operator of Asian massage parlors in Johnson County, Kan., was sentenced in federal court today for leading and organizing a criminal scheme to coerce her employees, who...
October 23, 2009
PHILADELPHIA—Jason Bloom, 39, of Mt. Laurel, NJ, was sentenced today to 90 months in prison for wire fraud stemming from a scheme to defraud homeowners, lenders, title insurance companies, and the City of Philadelphia of approximately $1,730,874. Bloom engaged in this scheme from at least Mar...
October 23, 2009
ANCHORAGE, AK—United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that on October 13, 2009, Stafford Eugene Anderson, II, and Steven Spencer Miller, both residents of Anchorage, Alaska, pled guilty in federal court in Anchorage to charges relating to a drug-trafficking conspiracy.
Anderson, ...
October 23, 2009
ATLANTA—Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Gregory Jones, FBI Atlanta, announces on behalf of the Northwest Georgia Crimes Against Children Task Force, the following arrest:
Christopher Rubush, age 35, a resident of Roswell, Georgia, was arrested at Whitfield County, Georgia on Saturday, October...
October 23, 2009
NORFOLK, VA—Christopher Jason Oxenham, 28, of Virginia Beach, Va. was sentenced today in Norfolk federal court to 10 years in prison, followed by supervised release for life, for possession of child pornography.
Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, ...
October 23, 2009
COLUMBUS—Julie M. Jarvis, 51, of Columbus, was sentenced in United States District Court here today to 66 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $2,663,681.44 in restitution for stealing money and property from two elderly clients between 2000 and 2009 while she was working as their finan...
October 23, 2009
HOUSTON—Michael Sadowski, 51, of League City, Texas, has been charged with receipt of child pornography and ordered held without bond pending further criminal proceeding following a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Wm. Smith, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Afte...
October 23, 2009
INDIANAPOLIS—Kevin D. Shively, 39, Terre Haute, Indiana, at the time a Bureau of Prisons employee, was charged with providing contraband in prison, announced Timothy M. Morrison, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Indiana, following an investigation by the Department of Justice, Office of the...
October 23, 2009
NEWARK, NJ—A Venezuelan citizen arrested in Mexico last February on hacking and wire fraud charges has been extradited and is expected to appear in court tomorrow in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman, announced.
Edwin Pena, 26, is scheduled to appear tomorrow at 2 p.m. before U.S. M...
October 23, 2009
RALEIGH—Two defendants were arrested for a mail fraud and money laundering scheme that brought a loss of over $23 million to Cisco Systems, Inc. (Cisco), a world leader in the design and manufacturing of computer network routers and other equipment, announced United States Attorney George E.B....
October 23, 2009
ROCHESTER, NY—U.S. Attorney Kathleen M. Mehltretter of the Western District of New York announced that six individuals located in the New York City area were charged yesterday in a criminal complaint with defrauding Flaherty Funding, a mortgage company located at 2595 Brighton Henrietta Town L...
October 23, 2009
KANSAS CITY, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two former top executives of the American Italian Pasta Company (AIPC) were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a conspiracy to fraudulently overstate earnings and dec...
October 23, 2009
LITTLE ROCK, AR—Jane W. Duke, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas; Thomas J. Browne, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and Stuart Thomas, Chief, Little Rock Police Department, announced today that Antoi...
October 23, 2009
"A special agent with the FBI Pittsburgh Field Office was shot and killed at 6 a.m. on November 19 while attempting to serve an arrest warrant at a residence in Indiana Township in Pennsylvania."
The narrative describing the death last year of Special Agent Samuel Hicks is among the 41 chilling s...
October 23, 2009
According to information released today by the FBI, 41 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty last year; 68 officers died in accidents while performing their duties; and 58,792 officers were assaulted while on duty. The 2008 edition of Law Enforcement Officers Killed an...
October 23, 2009
WASHINGTON—Former General Services Administration (GSA) Chief of Staff David H. Safavian was sentenced today to one year in prison on charges of obstruction of justice and making false statements in connection with the investigation into the activities of former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramo...
October 23, 2009
BOSTON—PHARMACIA & UPJOHN COMPANY, INC., a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc ("Pfizer") today was sentenced today in federal court for a felony violation of the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act, for misbranding the drug, Bextra, with the intent to defraud or mislead. PHARMACIA & UPJOHN COMPANY, INC. was sente...
October 23, 2009
BALTIMORE, MD—U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Joseph Vieson III, age 43, of Annapolis, Maryland, today to 45 years in prison, followed by supervised release for life, for conspiracy to produce child pornography, sexually exploiting a minor to produce child pornography and assis...
October 23, 2009
WASHINGTON—A packaged-ice company, headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $9 million criminal fine for allocating customers, the Department of Justice announced today. In addition, three of the company´s former executives pleaded guilty for their roles ...
October 23, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that JOHN N. MILNE, 50, of Westport, Connecticut, pleaded guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns...
October 23, 2009
WASHINGTON—A Louisiana man pleaded guilty today to firing three shots from a shotgun at the home of three Hispanic men and, after they fled, entering the home and setting a fire that burned it to the ground, the Justice Department announced. Johnny D. Mathis, 46, of Lecompte, La., entered his ...
October 23, 2009
For the past two days law enforcement officers in Sacramento, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, El Dorado and Placer counties were busy conducting a child predator sweep. The operation, code named Operation TRAPS, targeted child predators and pornographers and was in support of the FBI´s Innocent Image...
October 23, 2009
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and JOSEPH DEMAREST, JR., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), today announced charges against six individuals arising out of their alleged involvement in t...
October 23, 2009
United States Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan announced today, October 15, 2009, that Chad Zachary Hower, formerly of Titusville, Pennsylvania, was indicted on May 12, 2009, by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of international parental kidnapping.
The one-count indictment named Hower, age 34,...
October 16, 2009
BOSTON, MA—Three nationals of the People´s Republic of China and two corporations were charged on October 1, 2009 in federal court with conspiring over a period of 10 years to illegally export defense articles, designated on the United States Munitions List, and Commerce controlled elect...
October 16, 2009
DALLAS—Following a trial that began in June 2009, and after several days of deliberation, a federal jury has convicted former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill, 57; his wife, Sheila Farrington Hill; 45, D´Angelo Lee, 43, Hill´s Plan Commission Appointee; and others who were involved in...
October 09, 2009
George Stanley and cousins suspected of scamming and drugging elderly man.
SACRAMENTO – Just eight days after pleading "no contest" to one felony count of grand theft by false pretenses here in California, paving scam suspect George Stanley is behind bars in Pennsylvania.
After Stanley´s no ...
October 03, 2009
COVINGTON, KY—David Huntley, 34, of Covington, Ky. was sentenced today to 120 months in prison by Judge David Bunning for drug trafficking.
In the course of his guilty plea in May of 2009, Huntley admitted that he possessed more than 500 grams of cocaine with the intent to distribute it. Hu...
October 03, 2009
CAMDEN—A Linden man who is also facing murder charges in Hudson County was sentenced today to 176 months in federal prison for his role in an ecstasy distribution conspiracy, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr., announced.
In imposing sentence, U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler foun...
October 03, 2009
Lisa Torres, 40, formerly of Johnston, pleaded guilty today to a $1.7 million mortgage fraud scheme in which she purchased properties that had recently been foreclosed upon, and then used the names of straw purchasers in sham sales to finagle mortgage financing.
United States Attorney Peter F. Ne...
October 03, 2009
SAN JUAN, PR—On Sept. 28, 2009, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico issued a seven-count superseding indictment, charging 65 defendants with federal drug trafficking offenses. This morning, 500 federal and state law enforcement agents from the Bayamon Strike Force, arrested 37 ...
October 03, 2009
SPRINGFIELD, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Wichita, Kan., man and a Carl Junction, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in a $1.2 million mortgage fraud scheme.
The mortgage fraud schemes involved...
October 03, 2009
GREENBELT, MD—U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Carlos Antonio Martinez, also known as Lobo, now age 21, of Hyattsville, Maryland, today to 114 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to conduct and participate in the racketeering enterpri...
October 03, 2009
Maine Resident Sentenced to Nearly Six Years in Federal Prison for Role in Northeastern Connecticut Drug Ring
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARTIN MERRILL, also known as "MJ," 24, of Newport, Maine, was sentenced today by Senior United Sta...
October 03, 2009
WASHINGTON—Three members of the violent gang known as the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (ALKQN) pleaded guilty today to charges related to their participation in a drive-by shooting and a drug conspiracy, and two other members were sentenced for their roles in a drug conspiracy, announc...
October 03, 2009
LUBBOCK, TX—The two top-ranking members in command of the Mexican Mafia that operated in San Angelo and Abilene, Texas, have been sentenced to lengthy prison sentences by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas.
Today, Ju...
October 03, 2009
WASHINGTON—Yitbarek Syume, 51, of Silver Spring, Maryland, Berhane Leghese, 47, of Arlington, Virginia, and Amanuel Ghirmazion, 53, of Hyattsville, Maryland, were indicted on bribery charges on October 1, 2009, by a grand jury sitting in the United States District Court for the District of Col...
October 03, 2009
BALTIMORE, MD—U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Tamall Parker, age 23, and Tracy Love, age 25, both of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 13.5 years and eight years in prison, respectively, each followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess wit...
October 03, 2009
An Orange County lawyer agreed in court papers filed today to plead guilty to two felony charges related to a scheme in which he took more than $2 million awarded to employees of a company he sued in a class action and lost almost all of the funds while day trading in the stock market.
Sandeep Ba...
October 03, 2009
GREENBELT, MD—Lawrence Fox, age 27, of LaPlata, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.
According to Fox´s plea agreement, a search warrant was executed at his home and the comp...
October 03, 2009
A 25-year-old St. Paul man was sentenced today in federal court for robbing the Guaranty Bank in Maplewood on February 10, 2009.
United States District Court Judge Joan Ericksen sentenced James Matthew Hood to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release on one count of bank robbery....
October 03, 2009
DALLAS—David Nunez, 57, of Waxahachie and Houston, Texas, was sentenced to eight years in prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, following his guilty plea in June to transporting and shipping child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern Distric...
October 03, 2009
TRENTON—An attorney and former company CEO pleaded guilty today to bank fraud, admitting that he engaged in a scheme to defraud Commerce Bank, Provident Bank and other financial institutions, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr., announced.
Jeffrey E. Michelson, 60, of Roxbury Township,...
October 03, 2009
Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that an indictment was filed against Joseph C. Knox charging him with one count of wire fraud. Knox, age 40, of Chesterland, Ohio.
The indictment alleges that the defendant operated various businesses ...
October 03, 2009
COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins stated today that Joseph Wade Northington, age 28, of Roanoke, Virginia, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for using a firearm during a crime of violence, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c). United Stat...
October 03, 2009
COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins stated that a federal jury convicted Dwayne Roderick Ross, age 37, of Rock Hill, South Carolina, on federal drug conspiracy charges after a three-day trial. Ross was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilogram...
October 03, 2009
COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins stated today that Bruce Lee Windsor, age 43, of Greenville, pled guilty today in federal court in Spartanburg, to armed bank robbery and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence, both violations of federal law. United States District J...
October 03, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, LA—ROBERT KIM ISTRE, 55, of Houma, Louisiana, was arrested today by Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on a criminal complaint charging receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten and FBI Special Agent in Charge David Welker.
ISTRE was su...
October 03, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, LA—CRYSTAL BLACK, age 36, a resident of Harvey, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Helen G. Berrigan to five (5) months imprisonment for one count of health care fraud and pay restitution to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals in the amount of $...
October 03, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KEVIN J. MALARNEY, 57, of Branford, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release for steering g...
October 03, 2009
John E. Murphy, Acting U.S. Attorney, announced that in El Paso today, 45-year-old Ismael Serna Moreno pleaded guilty to committing several bank and retail store robberies as well as brandishing a firearm during two of the retail store robberies.
Appearing before United States District Judge Davi...
October 03, 2009
WASHINGTON—Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Division Loretta King and U.S. Attorney Donald W. Washington for the Western District of Louisiana announced that Daniel Earl Danforth, 30, of Minden, La., has been indicted by a federal grand jury for hate crime violations and obst...
October 03, 2009
WASHINGTON—Detroit residents Dierdre Teagen, Robert Wynn, Ernest Neal, James Harris and Steve Sherman pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Detroit this week for their roles in various Medicare fraud schemes, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer, U.S...
October 03, 2009
SAN JOSE, CA—Following his plea to three counts of armed bank robbery and to brandishing a firearm during one of those robberies, Froilan Alix Roldan was sentenced today to 18 years in prison and ordered to pay $90,594.99 in restitution, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced.
...
October 03, 2009
ABINDGON, VIRGINIA—A Oakwood man who used a social networking website to threaten harm to people at several universities and make promises of school shootings at locations throughout the country was sentenced yesterday to four years of federal incarceration for his crimes.
Allen Leon Sammon...
October 03, 2009
BIRMINGHAM—A federal grand jury today indicted a Huntsville woman for bank fraud on charges she stole more than $500,000 from ATM machines and a bank vault at the Huntsville bank where she worked, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance announced.
The indictment charges that KELESTE SHERRILL, 48, o...
October 03, 2009
BIRMINGHAM—A federal grand jury today indicted MAXIE DOYAL EVANS for the armed robbery of a Huntsville bank in June, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Patrick J. Maley.
Evans, 32, of Union Grove, was charged in a two-count indictment filed in U. S. Di...
October 03, 2009
John E. Murphy, Acting U.S. Attorney, announced that in Waco today, 50-year-old Tyra Arnett Green and 24-year-old Amanda Eastman, of Houston, Texas, were sentenced to five years in federal prison for their roles in a fraudulent scheme that victimized an 89-year-old Waco woman.
United States Chief...
October 03, 2009
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that REYNALDO JIMENEZ was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for theft of identity information belonging to over 35 active duty U.S. military service members he then used to steal pay due to those service ...
October 03, 2009
Sean Joyce has been named assistant director of the FBI´s International Operations Division (IOD). Director Robert S. Mueller, III appointed him to this position to replace assistant director Tom Fuentes, who retired.
"The International Operations Division´s scope of responsibilities ...
October 03, 2009
DETROIT—U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg announced the unsealing today of a criminal indictment in federal court charging Edward P. May with 59 felony counts of mail fraud in connection with a decade long Ponzi scheme affecting hundreds of metro-Detroit area individuals as well as individuals acros...
October 03, 2009
TUCSON, AZ—David R. Holst, 44, of Tucson, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins to 18 months in prison for mail fraud and filing a false income tax return. A hearing regarding restitution will be held on January 5, 2010.
On March 13, 2009, Holst pleaded guilty to v...
October 03, 2009
MADISON, WI—Stephen P. Sinnott, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Alfred T. Shippy, 45, Plover, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb to forty years in prison for production of child pornography. Shippy pl...
October 03, 2009
INDIANAPOLIS—Richard L. Marzullo, 56, Orlando, Florida, was sentenced to 70 months' imprisonment today by U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young following his guilty plea to aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, interstate transport of stolen property and conspiracy, announced Timothy M. Morris...
October 03, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, VA—Preston David Pinkett II, age 70, of Arlington, Va., was sentenced to 36 months in prison for engaging in a massive Ponzi scheme that raised more than $40 million in fraudulent payments from investors. Pinkett was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered t...
October 03, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, VA—William J. King, a dentist from Culpepper, Va., pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to illegally distribute oxycodone.
Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Joseph Persichini Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of t...
October 03, 2009
Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that former political fundraiser Norman Hsu was sentenced today to 292 months in prison for operating an $80 million Ponzi scheme and violating federal campaign finance laws. Hsu pleaded guilty on May 7, 2009, in Manha...
October 03, 2009
DAYTON—Daniel Garcia-Guia, 28, a Mexican national in Dayton, was sentenced to life in prison today after leading a drug-trafficking organization that distributed hundreds of kilograms of cocaine in southern Ohio from 2005 until his arrest in April 2007.
William E. Hunt, Acting United States...
October 03, 2009
CINCINNATI—Deante Martell, 23, of Cincinnati pleaded guilty in United States District Court here today to one count of assault on a federal officer and one count of discharging a firearm in connection with a federal crime. The charges stem from a March 25, 2009 shooting where assailants fired ...
October 03, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, LA—JEFFERY MARTIN BENTLEY, a/k/a Jeff Bentley, age 52, a resident of Muscadine, Alabama, a former employee of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development and de facto project engineer on a project for widening and improvements to the Interstate 10 highway in Jeffers...
October 03, 2009
HOUSTON—Pedro Gil III, 37, a member of the Los Hermanos de Pistoleros (HPL) prison and street gang, was among 21 defendants sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sim Lake over the past seven days, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Gil pleaded guilty April 30, 2009, to conspiring t...
October 03, 2009
PHOENIX, AZ—Today, Phoenix FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Nathan Thomas Gray announced the arrest of Michael Robert Wiseman, age 34.
Michael R. Wiseman was arrested by officials from the National Police Corps attached to the Malaga International Airport on September 25, 2009. Wise...
October 03, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY—This morning, RODERICK LAMAR ROBINSON, 31, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced by United States District Judge Stephen P. Friot to serve 14 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for making a bomb threat at the Federal Building, located at 301 NW 6th...
October 03, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that two Romanian citizens have been extradited to the United States to face charges stemming from an alleged Internet "phis...
October 03, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TYLON MIMS, 35, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to two counts of bank fraud.
According to court documents and statements made in court, i...
October 03, 2009
HUNTINGTON, WV—A Huntington woman was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base. Lowantha Calloway, 46, previously pled guilty to the drug charge in July 2009. According to court records, on November 4, 2008, Calloway was stopped by an officer...
October 03, 2009
MARQUETTE, MI—Joel Thomas Smith, 20, of Wilson, Michigan, a member of the Hannahville Indian Community, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for assault with a dangerous weapon, U.S. Attorney Donald A. Davis announced today. In addition to the prison term, Senior U.S. District Judge R....
October 03, 2009
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ABDUL TAWALA IBN ALI ALISHTARI pleaded guilty today to charges of terrorism financing and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The plea was entered in Manhattan federal court before United States District Jud...
October 03, 2009
A 45-year-old Inver Grove Heights man was sentenced today in federal court for robbing a St. Paul TCF Bank on January 6, 2009.
On September 29 in St. Paul, United States District Court Judge Patrick Schiltz sentenced Dale Andrew Robinson to 33 months in prison and three years of supervised releas...
October 03, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO—W. Scott Harkonen, M.D., the former CEO of InterMune, Inc., was convicted of wire fraud for the creation and dissemination of false and misleading information about the efficacy of InterMune´s drug Actimmune (Interferon gamma-1b) as a treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibr...
October 03, 2009
BOSTON, MA—A North Oxford man was sentenced yesterday in federal court for possession of child pornography.
Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks and Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Division and Chief Michael J. Boss...
October 03, 2009
PHILADELPHIA—Lawyer Andrew Teitelman, 50, of Newtown, PA, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison and a $5,000 fine for his role in a corruption case involving a former aide to a city councilman, announced U.S. Attorney Michael L. Levy. Teitelman and co-defendants Christopher Wright and Rav...
October 03, 2009
WASHINGTON—The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) has agreed to pay the government $8.3 million to settle allegations that it illegally paid kickbacks to cardiologists and caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, the Justice Department announced today.
UMDN...
October 03, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, LA—WAYNE G. CRESAP, age 62, NUNZIO SALVADORE CUSIMANO, JR., a/k/a Sal Cusimano, age 58, both residents of St. Bernard Parish, and VICTOR J. DAUTERIVE, a/k/a V. J. Dauterive, age 57, a resident of Prairieville, Louisiana, pled guilty in federal court tody before U.S. District Judge...
October 03, 2009
ABINDGON, VIRGINIA—A Oakwood man who used a social networking website to threaten harm to people at several universities and make promises of school shootings at locations throughout the country was sentenced yesterday to four years of federal incarceration for his crimes.
Allen Leon Sammon...
October 03, 2009
NEWARK, NJ—FBI Special Agent In Charge Weysan Dun, along with the Middlesex County Prosecutors office and the Woodbridge and Sayreville Police Departments, announced today that Joseph Passalaqua, age 55, of 87 Morgan Place, East Brunswick, New Jersey, was arrested September 23 and charged fede...
October 03, 2009
CHICAGO—A Chicago man alleged to be a "Corona" of the Latin Kings, making him the highest-ranking leader outside of prison and responsible for overseeing the illegal activities of all factions of the powerful Chicago street gang, is among 18 defendants charged in a sweeping new federal indictm...
October 03, 2009
INDIANAPOLIS—Jerry J. Jaquess, Indianapolis, age 67, was sentenced to 30 months in prison late yesterday by Chief Judge David F. Hamilton for his participation in a large mortgage fraud scheme in the Indianapolis area, announced Timothy M. Morrison, United States Attorney for the Southern Dist...
October 03, 2009
ALBANY, NY—United States Attorney Andrew T. Baxter and John F. Pikus, Special Agent-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Albany Division, announced today that a federal grand jury in Albany has returned a one count indictment against KELLY BURKE, age 41, of Granville, New York. The indi...
October 03, 2009
BUFFALO, NY—A federal grand jury in Buffalo has returned a seventeen (17) count indictment charging THAMUD ELDRIDGE, a/k/a DAMU, 35; KASHIKA SPEED, a/k/a SHIKA, 36; and KEVIN ALLEN, a/k/a KILLER KEV, 29, all of Buffalo, New York, with Racketeering, Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering, Robbe...
October 03, 2009
In what is believed to be the longest sentence ever handed down in a white-collar case in this district, the mastermind of a Riverside-based Ponzi scheme that collected well over $60 million from hundreds of investors—and caused more than $39 million in losses—was sentenced today to 100 ...
October 03, 2009
WASHINGTON—Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Division Loretta King and U.S. Attorney Donald W. Washington for the Western District of Louisiana announced that Daniel Earl Danforth, 30, of Minden, La., has been indicted by a federal grand jury for hate crime violations and obst...
October 03, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael J. Folmar, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), Miami Field Office, unsealed a twenty-two count Indictment today charging Jimmy L. Barker, Jr., 40, of Wellington, FL...
October 03, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael J. Folmar, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that defendant Daniel Martinez, of Davie, Florida, was sentenced for his participation in a $20 million health care...
October 03, 2009
WASHINGTON—A Florida doctor was charged today by a federal grand jury in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., with allegedly orchestrating a fraudulent political fundraising and lobbying scheme through which he secretly diverted to himself more than $350,000 from contributions to political organizations he c...
September 18, 2009
Columbia, South Carolina—United States Attorney W. WALTER WILKINS stated today that JAMES EDWIN WRIGHT, JR., age 49, of Greer, South Carolina, was charged in a one count Indictment with possession of child pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252A(a)(5)(B).
Th...
September 18, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO—A federal grand jury indicted David Arthur Nilsen and Manoel Antonio Errico, of Monterey, Calif., with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, and securities fraud, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello and Monterey County District Attorney Dean D...
September 18, 2009
John E. Murphy, Acting United States Attorney, announced that 35-year-old Adrian Edward Pena, was indicted for his alleged role in a conspiracy to defraud El Paso County by committing mail fraud and depriving citizens of honest services in connection with a county construction contract.
The three...
September 18, 2009
Former Alapaha Circuit Superior Court Judge Brooks E. Blitch, III, pled guilty before the Honorable Hugh Lawson, United States District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia, to one count of Honest Services Fraud Conspiracy in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1341, 1343, 1346, ...
September 18, 2009
KANSAS CITY, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Trimble, Mo., man who had a large farming operation in Buchanan and Clinton counties has been sentenced in federal court for making false statements to obtain loans and...
September 18, 2009
John E. Murphy, Acting United States Attorney, announced that a federal grand jury in El Paso today, returned a four-count indictment charging 29-year-old Thelton Andres Riley, Jr. and 29-year-old Leesa Trujillo, in connection with the death of her 7-month-old child on August 10, 2009, on Fort Bliss...
September 18, 2009
BEAUMONT, TX—U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that a 54-year-old Orange, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas.
JAMES RICHARD KNOX pleaded guilty on Apr. 17, 2009, to distribution of child pornography and ...
September 18, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRIAN L. WATSON, 38, of West Warwick, Rhode Island, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised rele...
September 18, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced MATTHEW CAPORIZZO, 32, last residing on Huckleberry Drive South in Norwalk, was sentenced yesterday, September 10, by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport, to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by...
September 18, 2009
A 44-year-old Minneapolis man has been indicted for allegedly robbing the First National Bank of the Lakes in Minneapolis last month.
Russell Brockman has been charged with one count of bank robbery. Brockman´s indictment, filed in federal court earlier today, alleges he took by force, viol...
September 18, 2009
Dennis C. Pfannenschmidt, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a 33-year-old Wilkes-Barre resident pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy to receiving child pornography during January and February 2007, and unlawfully po...
September 18, 2009
WASHINGTON—Gerald Green and Patricia Green, Los Angeles-area film executives, were found guilty late last Friday of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and money laundering laws of the United States, as well as substantive violations of the FCPA and U.S. money launde...
September 18, 2009
On 09/11/2009, the New Jersey State Police-Drug Trafficking Control Unit arrested Jose Juan Viera-Morales, also known as (aka) "Che Juan." Viera-Morales was arrested by the New Jersey State Police on alleged money laundering charges.
In December 2007, a Federal Grand Jury returned an indictment ...
September 18, 2009
According to figures released today by the FBI, the estimated number of violent crimes in the nation declined for the second year in a row. Property crimes also declined in 2008, marking the sixth straight year the collective estimates for these offenses dropped below the previous year´s total...
September 18, 2009
GREENBELT, MD—U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Michael K. Lewis, age 57, of Takoma Park, Maryland today to 78 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy and bankruptcy fraud arising from a scheme in which he and his conspirators offered to ...
September 18, 2009
McALLEN, TX—A federal grand jury has indicted Emma Vigil, of McAllen, and charged her with five counts of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Vigil, 48, was arrested by FBI agents at her residence this morning and will be a...
September 18, 2009
John E. Murphy, Acting United States Attorney, announced that 55-year-old Rosario Divins, of San Antonio, a self-proclaimed foreclosure prevention specialist, was sentenced to 350 months in federal prison for criminal contempt and mail fraud.
In addition to the prison term, United States District...
September 18, 2009
John E. Murphy, Acting United States Attorney, announced that this morning in San Antonio, 41-year-old Raymond Alfred Gagnon was sentenced to 200 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in April to transportation of child pornography.
In addition to the prison term, United States District ...
September 18, 2009
NORFOLK, VA—Federal and local authorities announced today that Vahe Harutyunyan, age 35, of Armenia, was sentenced in Norfolk federal court to 78 months in prison for his role in a wide-spread visa fraud conspiracy in Hampton Roads. Harutyunyan is the second major boss sentenced for his role i...
September 18, 2009
BOSTON, MA—The Brockton Superintendent of Buildings was arrested today on federal charges that he received kickbacks from a contractor in exchange for his allowing the contractor to perform work for the City.
Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks, Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent ...
September 18, 2009
JACKSON, MS—United States Attorney Stan Harris, Federal Bureau of Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Stephen F. Gomez, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Thomas C. McDade, and Madison/Rankin County District Attorney Michael Gue...
September 18, 2009
A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on September 11, 2009, LINDA CONNOR, age 54, of Belleville, Illinois, was sentenced to serve thirty-six (36) months in federal prison for her convictions on a two-count Indictment which charged her wi...
September 18, 2009
NEWPORT NEWS, VA—William Thomas Foreman, age 42, of Newport News, Va., was sentenced today to 335 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for leading a major cocaine trafficking operation.
Dana J. Boente, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, A...
September 18, 2009
PHILADELPHIA—A former employee with the United States Attorney´s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ("EDPA") pleaded guilty today to federal charges, admitting she used a government-issued computer and defendants´ personal information to perpetrate a fraud totaling app...
September 18, 2009
KANSAS CITY, KN—Timothy Kessler, 42, Kansas City, Kan., has been sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for transporting a minor across state lines to engage in sexual activity, U.S. Attorney Lanny Welch said today.
In September 2008, Kessler pleaded guilty. In his plea he admitted he use...
September 18, 2009
GREENBELT, MD—U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Bobby James Ransom, age 30, of Washington, D.C., today to nine years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for bank robbery, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. Judge ...
September 18, 2009
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that OUSSAMA ABDULLAH KASSIR, a/k/a "Abu Abdullah," a/k/a "Abu Khadija," was sentenced today to life in prison for, among other things, providing material support to al Qaeda. The sentence was imposed by Unite...
September 18, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Loretta King, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, John V. Gilles, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Walter Murphree, Inspector General, Florida Department of Co...
September 18, 2009
SAN JUAN, PR—Twenty-three individuals were indicted on Sept. 9, 2009, by a federal grand jury and arrested today by Bayamón Strike Force teams as a result of an investigation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez during a...
September 18, 2009
ST. LOUIS, MO—Four men pleaded guilty in federal court today for their roles in a dog fighting conspiracy and selling dogs for fighting purposes, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap announced today. A fifth man pleaded guilty last week to the same charges in the Western District of M...
September 18, 2009
ST. LOUIS, MO—The founder and chairman of Earthly Mineral Solutions, Inc., was sentenced to 60 months' imprisonment on fraud charges in connection with a scheme to sell mineral rights to investors, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap announced today.
ROY HIGGS of Henderson, Nevada...
September 18, 2009
RALEIGH—United States Attorney George E .B. Holding announced that in federal court on September 11, 2009, KATHRYN ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, 22, and ASHLEY ELIZABETH RICKS, 22, both from Wilmington, North Carolina, were sentenced for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute a quantity of ...
September 18, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, VA—Henry "Uche" Obilo, age 30, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced to 88 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role as a leader in a home equity line of credit fraud scheme that has been linked to more than $36 million in attempted fraud and almost $...
September 18, 2009
Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that Lyle Brave Heart, age 58, of Porcupine, appeared before US District Court Chief Judge Karen E. Schreier on September 2, 2009, and pled guilty to a charge of mailing a threatening communication. The maximum penalty upon conviction is five ...
September 18, 2009
DALLAS—Two men, Thomas James Frederick Smith, 21, and David Anthony Edwards, 20, have been charged in a federal indictment with conspiring to intentionally cause damage to a protected computer and commit computer fraud, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. ...
September 18, 2009
PHOENIX—Donald Michael Hill, 50, of Apache Junction, Ariz., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Mary H. Murguia to 10 years in federal prison for bank robbery. On May 18, 2009, Hill pleaded guilty to Bank Robbery. He has two prior convictions for robbing banks.
On June 5, 2006, H...
September 18, 2009
TUCSON, AZ—Nora Liliana Skinner-Reyes, 36, of Rio Rico, Ariz., pleaded guilty yesterday to one felony count of False Document to a Government Agency, in federal district court in Tucson. At the time she was charged in a May 2009 indictment, Skinner-Reyes was employed by U.S. Customs and Border...
Doctor From Carmi, Illinois Pleads Guilty to Charges of Illegal Dispensation of Controlled Substance
September 18, 2009
The United States Attorney´s Office for the Southern District of Illinois announced today that on September 10, 2009, in the United States District Court in Benton, Dr. HUNG T. NGUYEN, 57, of Carmi, pled guilty to three counts of illegally dispensing controlled substances. Dr. NGUYEN dispensed...
September 18, 2009
The United States Attorney´s Office for the Southern District of Illinois announced today that on September 9, 2009, the district court returned a 12-count indictment against Dr. SUKHDARSHAN S. BEDI, 55, of Energy, Illinois. On July 10, 2009, the Federal Grand Jury sitting in Benton, Illinois,...
September 18, 2009
BOSTON, MA—A Big Dig subcontractor was sentenced today in federal court for submitting false claims on a federal highway project. The scheme involved the systematic, fraudulent billing of apprentice workers at the higher rate of pay for journeymen, resulting in continuing overpayments by the C...
September 18, 2009
BOSTON, MA—Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks, Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Division; Susan J. Waddell, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Inspector General announce...
September 18, 2009
NEWARK—A former Jersey City building inspector was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison today for attempting to extort corrupt cash payments from contractors in Jersey City, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr. announced.
U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler also ordered Randolph ...
September 18, 2009
WASHINGTON—United States District Court Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth sentenced Calvin C. McCants, 59, most recently of the 4400 block of 15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., to 51 months of incarceration and three years of supervised release for possession of false document-making implements,...
September 18, 2009
GREENBELT, MD—U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Richard Allison, age 38, of Camp Springs, Maryland, an attorney and employee of the U.S. Census Bureau, today to 18 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, in connecti...
September 18, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO—Cheryl Hernandez Camus was sentenced today to 63 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,457,255 in restitution for mail and wire fraud in connection with a real estate investment scheme, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced.
Ms. Camus pleaded guilty on Decemb...
September 18, 2009
PHOENIX—A Fountain Hills woman has admitted to stealing from both the local tribal government that employed her and later from an elderly woman who was availing herself of tribal social services. Monica Thompson, 42, said that between November 2005 and December 2006, while employed by the Salt...
September 18, 2009
PHOENIX—Jerad Chee, 18, of Ganado, Ariz., was sentenced today to 37 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake. In May 2009, Jerad Chee pleaded guilty to Armed Robbery.
On February 1, 2009, Chee and his co-defendant and brother, Jerrison Chee, 26, robbed a gas station and ...
September 18, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—This morning, TERRANCE LYNN MCGUIRE, 27, of Canyon, Texas, pled guilty to kidnapping a 10-year-old girl and transporting her from Oklahoma to Texas to New Mexico, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
According to...
September 18, 2009
COLUMBUS, OH—Charles E. Townsend, 39, of Columbus pleaded guilty in United States District Court here to one count of money laundering in connection with his involvement in a mortgage fraud scheme that exaggerated property values to out of state investors in order to secure funding for the pur...
Law Firm Office Manager Sentenced to Nearly Four Years in Federal Prison for Stealing Cash from Firm
September 18, 2009
AMARILLO, TX—The former office manager at the Sanders Baker Law Firm in Amarillo, Staci Renee Cartwright, who pleaded guilty in April to forging securities of an organization, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson to 46 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney James...
September 18, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that AMJAD IQBAL, also known as "Asif Ali," 38, a citizen of Pakistan lawfully residing in the United States in Willimantic, Connecticut, pleaded guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Peter C. Dorsey...
September 18, 2009
INDIANAPOLIS—Paul A. Ford, 33, Morgantown, Indiana, was sentenced to 16 months in prison today by U.S. District Judge Larry J. McKinney following his guilty plea to mail fraud, announced Timothy M. Morrison, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. This case was the result ...
September 18, 2009
WASHINGTON—Adam S. Pretti, a former deputy with the Shelby County, Tenn., Sheriff´s Office, was sentenced today in federal court in Memphis to 18 months in prison and two years of supervised release for using excessive force during an encounter with a citizen. Pretti was also ordered to ...
September 18, 2009
Acting United States Attorney Thomas Scott Woodward announced that an operator of a local construction firm plead guilty today in federal court in Tulsa to bribing a Tulsa public works official.
Harlan Eugene Yocham, age 49, of Yocham Enterprises, Sapulpa, plead guilty to Procurement Fraud Briber...
September 18, 2009
GRAND RAPIDS, MI—Bernard Hall, Jr., age 33, of Benton Harbor, Michigan, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the civil rights of inhabitants of the City of Benton Harbor, U.S. Attorney Donald A. Davis announced today. Hall was indicted back in July 2009 in connection with a corruption inves...
September 18, 2009
A criminal complaint was unsealed this morning in federal court in Brooklyn charging Philip Barry, a money manager based in Bay Ridge, New York, for operating a long-standing and large-scale Ponzi scheme.1 The defendant´s initial appearance is scheduled to be held later today before United Sta...
September 18, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO—William J. "Boots" Del Biaggio was sentenced today to 97 months in prison and ordered to pay approximately $67.5 million in restitution for his role in a $100 million fraud scheme, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced.
"I would hope this sentence and those im...
September 18, 2009
SACRAMENTO, CA—United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced today that BALLTAZAR VALLADARES, 30, of Roseville, was sentenced today by United States District Judge William B. Shubb to three years and one month in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for interfering w...
Dayville Man Sentenced to 46 Months in Federal Prison for Role in Northeastern Connecticut Drug Ring
September 18, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERIK LADOUCEUR, 31, of Dayville, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his invol...
September 18, 2009
MEDFORD, OR—Barton Albert Buhtz, 70, of Sunland, California, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Owen M. Panner to 36 months in prison, to be followed by 60 months of supervised release, for his conviction in a counterfeit treasuries case. In October 2007, a federal jury found Buh...
September 18, 2009
PHOENIX—Mario Bernadel, 51, of Phoenix, was convicted yesterday on 19 counts of Conspiracy to Commit Mail, Wire, and Bank Fraud; Mail Fraud; Wire Fraud; Bank Fraud, and Transactional Money Laundering as a result of his involvement in a cash back mortgage fraud scheme. Sentencing is set before ...
September 18, 2009
BALTIMORE, MD—U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Deborah Williams, age 57, of Pasadena, Maryland, the owner of a Severna Park title company, today to 84 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for mail fraud related to a scheme to divert settlement funds to h...
September 18, 2009
PHILADELPHIA—Concetta Jackson, 47, of Collingdale, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence M. Stengel to 300 months in prison for one count of producing child pornography, in connection with the case against John Worman, announced United States Attorney Michael ...
September 18, 2009
JEFFERSON CITY, MO— Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Eldon, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a dog-fighting conspiracy and to selling dogs for fighting purposes.
Jack Ruppel, 35, of Eldon, p...
September 18, 2009
James Wiese, 38, of Birmingham, Ilir Dokaj, 33, and Tom Gjokaj, 52, both of Sterling Heights, were indicted today by a federal grand jury in Detroit for scheming to obtain $7,557,100 from federally insured banks through fraudulent mortgages on twelve Birmingham homes, United States Attorney Terrence...
September 18, 2009
WASHINGTON—Jeffrey Robert Libman, 42, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., pleaded guilty in Miami today to one count of receiving child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Jeffrey H. Sloman for the Southern District of Flori...
September 18, 2009
SACRAMENTO, CA—United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced today that MICHAEL J. ELLISON, 42, of Richmond, pleaded guilty to possession of at least 50 grams of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine before United States District Judge Frank C. Damrell Jr.
This case is the ...
September 18, 2009
BALTIMORE, MD—Jerome Anthony Malecki, age 56, of Fallston, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.
According to the plea agreement, from July 2004 to November 2007, Malecki and co-con...
September 18, 2009
PHOENIX—Craig Miller, 21, of Sacaton, Arizona, was sentenced today to six years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Martone. Miller pleaded guilty on February 12, 2009, to Aggravated Assault. Co-defendant Alvin Miller was sentenced to 14 years in prison on February 19, 2009, ...
September 18, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that YOCHANAN LEVITANSKY, 22, of Crescent Street, New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Peter C. Dorsey in New Haven to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of...
September 18, 2009
PHILADELPHIA—Vivian K. Williams, 50, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to four counts of mail fraud and four counts of filing false federal income tax returns in connection with the embezzlement of approximately $1.6 million from her employer, announced United States Attorney Mi...
September 18, 2009
PHOENIX—Christopher Ray Elliot, 28, of Bacavi, Arizona, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Earl H. Carroll to 51 months in federal prison. The prison term will be followed by a six-month placement in an inpatient alcohol rehabilitation program while on three years of supervised release...
September 18, 2009
A 32-year-old Illinois man has been indicted on charges of child pornography. Daniel Allen Janowiak, Delavan, Ill., was charged with one count of possession of child pornography and one count of receipt of child pornography.
Janowiak´s indictment, filed today in federal court, alleges that ...
September 18, 2009
United States Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan announced today, September 16, 2009, that Jukeen M. Norman, a resident of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of distribution of cocaine base, commonly known as "crack."
Norman, age 32, pleaded guilty to one count before U...
September 18, 2009
KANSAS CITY, KS—Timothy L. Wyrick, 32, Bonner Springs, Kan., is charged with making threatening telephone phone calls to a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper. Wyrick is employed by the Kansas Highway Patrol as a motorist assist technician.
According to a criminal complaint filed today in U.S. Di...
September 18, 2009
Joseph Pacheco, 34, of Plymouth was found guilty of five counts of bank robbery on September 16, 2009 after a jury trial, United States Attorney Terrence Berg announced. Mr. Berg was joined in the announcement by Andrew G. Arena, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Detroit Fiel...
September 18, 2009
SAIPAN, NMI—LEONARDO M. RAPADAS, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and NMI, together with Timothy J. Landrum, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Robert R. Champion, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explos...
September 18, 2009
WICHITA FALLS, TX—U.S. District Judge Reed C. O´Connor sentenced five members of the Puro Lil Mafia (PLM) street gang following their guilty pleas to various firearms offenses, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. In April 2008, three of the five, And...
September 18, 2009
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MUHAMMAD EJAZ AHMAD was sentenced today to 21 months in prison and ordered to forfeit over $1.7 million for his role in a scheme to pay illegal kickbacks to Medicaid recipients. The sentence was imposed i...
September 18, 2009
BALTIMORE, MD—A federal grand jury indicted Douglas Lee Patrick, age 38, of Essex, Maryland, today on charges of persuading, inducing, enticing, and coercing minors to engage in sexually explicit conduct to produce child pornography and possession of child pornography, announced United States...
September 18, 2009
ANCHORAGE, AK—Acting United States Attorney Kevin Feldis announced that on September 16, 2009, Lela Sandra McGee, of Kenai, Alaska, also known as Lela Sandra Greene, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage on three counts of mail fraud for engaging in a scheme to fraudulently obtain ...
September 18, 2009
William J. Edwards, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced the filing of an information charging Diane M. Lantz, age 58, of Plymouth, Ohio, with embezzling over $400,000.00 over a seven year period from the KeyBank.
If convicted, the defendant's sentence will be...
September 18, 2009
Dennis C. Pfannenschmidt, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a 40-year-old Wilkes-Barre resident was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to serve 135 months in federal prison for receiving child pornography.
Pfannenschmidt state...
September 18, 2009
COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins stated today that Berry Richard Greer, age 45, formerly of Simpsonville, South Carolina, now residing in Texas, entered a plea of guilty to Possession of Child Pornography. The guilty plea was accepted yesterday by Federal District Court Ju...
September 18, 2009
KANSAS CITY, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to the attempted commercial sex trafficking of a child.
This conviction is the result of Operation Guardian Ang...
September 18, 2009
United States Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan announced today, September 16, 2009, that Christina L. Olson, a resident of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base, commonly known as "crack."
Ols...
September 18, 2009
DAYTON, OH—Dr. Richard Sievers, 53, of Oakwood, was sentenced in United States District Court here today to 84 months' imprisonment for his participation in a scheme that resulted in the illegal distribution of more than 700,000 dosage units of controlled substances from a storefront medical c...
September 18, 2009
NEWARK—Former Jersey City Health and Human Services Assistant Director Maher Z. Khalil pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit extortion, admitting that he accepted more than $72,000 in bribes from a government cooperating witness in return for attempting to obtain real estate development...
September 18, 2009
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department announced that four men who committed three hate crime assaults in response to President Barack Obama´s election victory were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Carol B. Amon in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y. Ralph Nicoletti, 19, was sentenced to 10...
September 18, 2009
WASHINGTON—Delmar Dwayne Spier, the chief executive officer and managing director of United States Protection and Investigations, LLC (USPI), today pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to conspiracy, major fraud and wire fraud arising from an alleged scheme to def...
September 18, 2009
DENVER—Platte River Associates, a Boulder company, was sentenced last week by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Wiley Y. Daniel to a fine of $14,500, for trading with the enemy, the U.S. Attorney´s Office, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the FBI announced. Platte River Associ...
September 14, 2009
GREENBELT, MD—U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. sentenced Paul Raymond Green, a/k/a "PJ," age 24, of Washington, D.C., late last week to 52 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking in a scheme to prostitute three minor ...
September 14, 2009
ALBANY, NY—United States Attorney Andrew T. Baxter and John F. Pikus, Special Agent-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Albany Division, announced today that ALAN MASKELL, age 60, of Saugerties, New York, pled guilty in United States District Court in Albany before the Honorable Thomas...
September 14, 2009
INDIANAPOLIS—Paul A. Ford, 33, Morgantown, Indiana, was sentenced to 16 months in prison today by U.S. District Judge Larry J. McKinney following his guilty plea to mail fraud, announced Timothy M. Morrison, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. This case was the result ...
September 14, 2009
NEWARK, NJ—David Findel is best known for his purchase of exclusive seats at a local football stadium. Now, he will be known for another reason. Today, Special Agent In Charge Weysan Dun announced the surrender of Findel, the 44-year-old President and CEO of Worldwide Financial Resources, on a...
September 14, 2009
PHILADELPHIA—Ravinder Chawla, 59, of Abington, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison and a $25,000 fine for conspiracy to commit honest services mail and wire fraud, honest services mail fraud, and mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Michael L. Levy. Chawla, who is ...
September 05, 2009
Dennis C. Pfannenschmidt, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania; Janice Fedaryck, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Don Fort, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Division, jointly announced today that an Indict...
September 05, 2009
SACRAMENTO—United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced today that SARET NOSAR, 57, of San Gabriel, KANARY KHIN, 54, of Long Beach, and PANG YEAN, 66, of Modesto, pleaded guilty today to conducting an illegal gambling business between September 2006 and October 2008 in the Counties of Sa...
September 05, 2009
SACRAMENTO—United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced today that REGINA SCHENCK, 46, of Herald, CA, pleaded guilty today to computer fraud and filing a false tax return before Senior United States District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton.
This case is the product of an extensive investiga...
September 05, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES KENNEDY, 21, of North Grosvenordale, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for ...
September 05, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLOS RODRIGUEZ, 31, of Chadwick Avenue, Hartford, was sentenced yesterday, September 1, by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to188 months of imprisonment, followed by eight years...
September 05, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDWARD J. SAFDIE, 71, of Madison, was sentenced yesterday, September 1, by United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 51 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release,...
September 05, 2009
WASHINGTON—American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. (hereinafter together "Pfizer") have agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice, to resolve criminal and civil liability...
September 05, 2009
A City of Detroit lead inspector appeared before a United States Magistrate today on a complaint charging him with abusing his official position to commit wire fraud, after having been arrested last evening, United States Attorney Terrence Berg announced today.
Berg was joined in the announcement...
September 05, 2009
PORTLAND, OR—Lili A. Brown, 46, of Beaverton, Oregon, was sentenced today by U. S. District Judge Garr M. King to four months in prison, to be followed by four months of home detention and 36 months of supervised release. In January 2007 Brown pled guilty to one count of evasion of payment of ...
September 05, 2009
WASHINGTON—A 27-year-old Hyattsville, Maryland man, Hakeem Blaize, was sentenced today to a term of six months of imprisonment having previously pled guilty to interstate transportation of stolen goods in connection with his theft of more than $30,000 worth of computers and computer equipment ...
September 05, 2009
FORT MYERS, FL—United States Attorney A. Brian Albritton announces that Milton Andre Almeida (age 23, of Bradenton) and Ryan Michael Hoy (age 30, of Bradenton) were charged yesterday in a criminal compliant with the burglary of a SunTrust Bank in Collier County, Florida. If convicted, Almeida ...
September 05, 2009
GREENBELT, MD—Jorge Rigoberto Amador, also known as Santo Diablo, age 33, of Hyattsville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to conduct and participate in the racketeering enterprise activities of MS-13, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein ...
September 05, 2009
PHOENIX—George Villareal, 19, of Laveen, Ariz., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to serve 30 years in federal prison. Villareal pleaded guilty on May 22, 2009, to a shooting death that occurred on the Gila Indian Reservation in Laveen.
Villareal, a gang member, was ...
September 05, 2009
PHOENIX—Anthony Wapeta, 22, of Phoenix and a member of the Gila River Indian Tribe, was sentenced today to 18 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Roslyn O. Silver. Wapeta pleaded guilty on April 9, 2009 to Assault of a Minor while using a Dangerous Weapon, a handgun, Resulting in Se...
September 05, 2009
PHOENIX—Four bank robbers were sentenced to federal prison yesterday in two separate cases. Lee Jay Brimmer, 32, of Queen Creek, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborg to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in April 2009 to four counts for Bank Robbery. Brim...
September 05, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. Folmar, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, and J. Thomas Cardwell, Commissioner, State of Florida´s Office of Financial Regulation, announced that...
September 05, 2009
PORTLAND, OR—Bryant E. Behrmann, 63, and Larry "Buck" E. Hunter, 63, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown. Both defendants pled guilty in June 2009 to money laundering in connection with a scheme to defraud thousands of investors through their company, Global Online Direct...
September 05, 2009
FRESNO, CA—United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced today that LISA SHAE ALLEN, 38, of Modesto, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to 51 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay over $1....
September 05, 2009
PREET BHARARA, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") announced that TERRENCE CHALK pled guilty today before United States Magistrate Judge GEOR...
September 05, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, LA—ELIAS CASTELLANOS, age 43 of Davie, Florida, was charged in a bill of information with theft from the Housing Authority of New Orleans, a program receiving federal funds, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.
According to the bill of information, from approximately September, ...
September 05, 2009
United States Attorney David Gaouette and FBI Special Agent in Charge James Davis announced today that Michael Alan Kincade, age 29, and Christopher Lee Richardson, age 45, both from Commerce City, Colorado, have been charged by Criminal Complaint with two counts of bank robbery. The FBI called Kinc...
September 05, 2009
BISMARCK, ND—United States Attorney Drew H. Wrigley announced that on August 31, 2009, Donald C. Luger, a/k/a Jody Luger, 58, of Fort Yates, North Dakota, pled guilty and was sentenced before United States District Court Chief Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of altering or concealing a tan...
September 05, 2009
COLUMBUS—Gary L. Kendall, Jr., 42, of Chillicothe, pleaded guilty in United States District Court here today to one count of distribution of child pornography after investigators found approximately 300 images on his computer depicting prepubescent minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
...
September 05, 2009
Three members of the violent gang known as the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (ALKQN)were sentenced today for their participation in narcotics and weapons trafficking.
Hiluterio Chavez, aka "Zeus," 33, of Chicago, was sentenced today to 87 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cumm...
September 05, 2009
DAYTON, OH—William Appleton, age 41, formerly of Cincinnati and now living in Seattle, was sentenced in United States District Court here today to 97 months' imprisonment for one count of mail fraud and 60 months' imprisonment, to be served concurrently, for one count of income tax evasion. Ap...
September 05, 2009
BOSTON, MA—The former President of the Brockton Chapter of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club was sentenced on Wednesday in federal court to 262 months on charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine. His co-defendant was sentenced to 120 months in pr...
September 05, 2009
SHAWN E. BROMLEY, 40, of Washougal, Washington, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 60 months in prison and three years of supervised release for Armed Bank Robbery. BROMLEY was arrested March 19, 2009, following the robbery of a credit union in Washougal. BROMLEY lead police on ...
September 05, 2009
HOUSTON—Mohammad Ghafrullah Choudhry, aka Muhammad Ullah, a Pakistani national and resident of Bryan, Texas, was sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment for bank fraud, United States Attorney Tim Johnson and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard C. Powers announced today.
Convicted in June 2009 ...
September 05, 2009
TUCSON, AZ—U.S. Attorney John J. Tuchi and Special Agent in Charge, FBI Phoenix Division, Nathan T. Gray announced today the unsealing of a federal indictment charging William Floyd Zamastil, 57, of Waupan, Wisconsin, with First Degree Murder for the 1973 murder of Leesa Jo Shaner, of Tucson. ...
September 05, 2009
PHOENIX—Joshua Phillips, 33, of Mesa, Ariz., was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell. Phillips pleaded guilty on April 28, 2009, to Second Degree Murder.
Phillips and co-defendant Augustine Thomas were involved with the homicide of an adult...
September 05, 2009
ST. LOUIS, MO—Bobby Garrett pled guilty to conspiracy, wire fraud, making false statements and theft of government funds, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap announced today.
Bobby Lee Garrett, Leo Liston, and Vincent Carr were police detectives employed by the St. Louis Metropoli...
September 05, 2009
ATLANTA, GA—SONGWOO SHIM, 48, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Charles A. Pannell, Jr. to serve three years, 10 months in federal prison for conspiring to encourage and induce aliens to reside unlawfully in the United States and for manufacturing f...
September 05, 2009
LOS ANGELES—The first three defendants to be charged under an international law enforcement initiative targeting Americans who travel to Cambodia to sexually exploit children have been removed from that Southeast Asian nation and are expected to arrive here later today to face prosecution in f...
September 05, 2009
BUFFALO, NY—Jeffrey J. Coleman., 30, of Buffalo, New York, was sentenced on August 28, 2009 to 33 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, United States Attorney Kathleen M. Mehltretter announced. Chief U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara also ordered Coleman to pay r...
September 05, 2009
INDIANAPOLIS—Brian Scott Hockett, 45, New Palestine, Indiana was sentenced to 18 months in prison today by U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker following his guilty plea to bank fraud, announced Timothy M. Morrison, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. This case was t...
September 05, 2009
JACKSONVILLE, FL—U.S. Attorney A. Brian Albritton announces that United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Ivan Joseph ("Joe") Eccles (age 35, of Lake City, Florida) to 10 years in federal prison, the statutory maximum, for using a cellular telephone to hire a hit man to...
September 05, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that STEVEN E. SCHLEIFER, 53, of Monsey, New York, pleaded guilty yesterday, September 1, before United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to one count of corruptly obstructing and impeding t...
September 05, 2009
United States Attorney Marty J. Jackley announced that a woman charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and possession with intent to distribute was sentenced on August 31, 2009, by US District Court Chief Judge Karen E. Schreier. Alvina White Bull, age 48, of Pine Ridge, was sentenced to 135 m...
September 05, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MELISSA LALIBERTE, 39, of Wallingford, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to one count of embezzlement from a federal credit union, and one count of filing a fa...
September 05, 2009
United States Attorney Marty J. Jackley announced that a Pine Ridge man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for engaging in sexual contact with a girl under the age of 12. Fernando White Butterfly, age 24, was indicted by a federal grand jury on August 25, 2009, for sexual abuse of a minor. He...
September 05, 2009
LOUISVILLE, KY—Joseph Ivan Rouben, age 80, and George Deusner, age 58, both of Louisville, Kentucky in Jefferson County, were sentenced on September 2, 2009, on charges of health care fraud and prohibited drug acts by Judge Thomas B. Russell, United States Attorney Candace G. Hill of the Weste...
September 05, 2009
NEWPORT NEWS, VA—Twan Bugg, age 23, and Samuel Bates, age 27, both of Newport News, VA were sentenced today to 30 years in prison and 25 years in prison respectively. Ty Davis, age 25, also of Newport News, VA was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison. Dana J. Boente, United States Attorne...
September 05, 2009
WICHITA FALLS, TX—Mauricio Diaz, 33, the known leader of the Puro Lil Mafia (PLM), a violent criminal street gang that operated in Wichita Falls, Texas, was convicted by a federal jury on all counts of an indictment charging him with various weapons and narcotics charges, announced U.S. Attorn...
September 05, 2009
EUGENE, OR—Colby Todd Dubose, 46, of Coos Bay, Oregon, was sentenced today to 272 months in prison for an armed bank robbery that occurred at the Premier West Bank in Roseburg, Oregon on May 21, 2008. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Ann Aiken imposed 188 months in prison for armed bank robbery...
September 05, 2009
TRENTON—A former assistant bank branch manager employed with JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison for embezzling more than $357,000 from her employer, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr., announced.
U.S. District Judge Mary L. Cooper also ordere...
September 05, 2009
WICHITA, KS—Former police officer Calvin Schaffer, 44, Goddard, Kansas, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Lanny Welch said today.
Schaffer pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in a wire fraud scheme to deprive citizens of his honest services as a member of the Goddard, Kans...
September 05, 2009
PHOENIX—Jonathan Bennie Yazzie, Jr., 20, of Peach Springs, Ariz. and a member of the Gila River Indian Community, was sentenced yesterday to 16 years in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Mary H. Murguia. Yazzie pleaded guilty on April 30, 2009, to Second Degree Murder for killing a 4...
September 05, 2009
HOUSTON—Rebecca Anne Dewvall, 42, of Channelview, Texas, has been convicted of executing a scheme to defraud her former employer, Continental Airlines Inc. in connection with Continental´s Electronic Travel Certificate (ETC) program. Dewvall, formerly with Continental´s corporate s...
September 05, 2009
DALLAS—A federal grand jury has indicted Eugene Lockhart, Jr., 48, a former player with the Dallas Cowboys, and eight others on various charges related to a mortgage fraud scheme he and the others allegedly ran in the Dallas area from 2001 through 2005, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks o...
September 05, 2009
Andrew T. Baxter, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced today that Matthew C. Romano, 32, made an initial appearance in federal court in Binghamton this afternoon after being named in a 20 count indictment charging him with mail fraud. The charges relate to Romano&a...
September 05, 2009
A Farmington physician pleaded guilty today to charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance and to distribute a controlled substance, United States Attorney Terrence Berg announced.
Berg was joined in the announcement by Robert Corso, Special Agent in Charge, ...
September 05, 2009
HOUSTON—Mohammed Abbulazz Al-Zehairi, 43, of Houston, has pleaded guilty to committing visa fraud by submitting a false employment contract for an Indonesian domestic employee and has been ordered to pay the employee more than $140,000 in back wages, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announce...
September 05, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GLEN SHARKANY, 40, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of conveying false information through the United States Mail.
According to documents ...
September 05, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—Today, EMILY ANNE SAUPITTY, 53, of Apache, Oklahoma, was sentenced by United States District Judge Timothy D. DeGuisti to serve 27 months in federal prison for embezzlement from the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the ...
September 05, 2009
John E. Murphy, Acting United States Attorney, announced that in Midland today, Jacob C. Guzman of Pecos, Texas, a former corrections officer at the Reeves County Detention Center (RCDC), was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for accepting bribes,...
September 05, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, LA—TYRONE MORGAN, age 26, a resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was charged in a one-count bill of information with maliciously conveying false information, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.
According to the bill, on approximately May 4, 2009, MORGAN, who was a contractor emp...
September 05, 2009
Acting United States Attorney Thomas Scott Woodward announced that the president of a Tulsa engineering firm pleaded guilty today in federal court in Tulsa to bribing a Tulsa public works official.
Kenneth Kirk Shoemaker, age 46, of Bartlesville, president of FBS, Inc. and an officer of FBS Engin...
September 05, 2009
MUSKOGEE, OK—Sheldon J. Sperling, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that RICHARD LELAND SOLOMON, III, age 30, of Canadian, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release for Possession of One or More Vi...
September 05, 2009
DENVER—Cedric Lipsey, age 35, and Philip A. Martinez, age 34, both from Denver, Colorado, were indicted by a federal grand jury last week on charges of wire fraud as part of a mortgage fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney David Gaouette, FBI Special Agent in Charge James Davis, and IRS Criminal Investi...
September 05, 2009
AUGUSTA, GA—Edmund A. Booth, Jr., United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, announced that the federal grand jury sitting in Savannah has returned a two count indictment against Bobby Lee Roberson, age 45, of Hephzibah, Georgia, charging him under the Armed Career Criminal A...
September 05, 2009
DENVER—United States Attorney David Gaouette and FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge James Davis announced that Jeffrey David Smith, age 28, of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to serve 84 months (seven years) in feder...
September 05, 2009
Michael Opland, 52, of Post Falls, Idaho, pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Coeur d´Alene, Idaho, to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and failure to appear. Opland admitted working with others to distribute methamphetamine in Idaho and Montana. The second charge was a result of...
September 05, 2009
KANSAS CITY, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Kan., man was sentenced in federal court today for three armed bank robberies in Gladstone, Mo., Independence, Mo., and Kansas City, Mo.
Wyatt J. Ellison, 36,...
September 05, 2009
TAMPA, FL—United States Attorney A. Brian Albritton announces that Beau Diamond (age 31, of Sarasota) was arrested last night by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office based on a federal complaint for wire fraud and money laundering charges.
Diamond appeared before United States Magistrate Ju...
September 05, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY—William James Viehl, age 23, of Layton, charged in a two-count indictment returned in March with damaging and interfering with the operation of an animal enterprise in connection with an early morning Aug. 19, 2008, attack at the McMullin mink farm in South Jordan and an attempt...
September 05, 2009
AUGUSTA, GA—Edmund A. Booth, Jr., United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, announced that a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against Davoud Allen Eghbali, age 53, of Augusta, Georgia, charging him with Making a False Statement to FBI agents.
Booth state...
September 05, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. Folmar, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, Daniel W. Auer, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division, Miami Fie...
September 05, 2009
HOUSTON—A 16-count sealed indictment charging Melvin Lendall Brown, the owner of Brownstone Construction, with wire fraud arising from an alleged multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme has been unsealed, United States Attorney Tim Johnson and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard C. Powers a...
September 05, 2009
LAKE CHARLES, LA—United States Attorney Donald W. Washington announced that HOWARD RONALD GUILLORY, SR., age 54, of Lake Charles, LA and JAMES MARCUS LEBLANC, age 53, of Lake Charles, LA, were convicted by a federal jury late yesterday afternoon for conspiracy to possess with intent to distrib...
September 05, 2009
Indianapolis—Basil Turpin, 66, Greene County, Indiana, was sentenced to 240 months in prison today by U.S. District Judge Larry J. McKinney following his guilty plea to Production of Child Pornography, announced Timothy M. Morrison, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. ...
September 05, 2009
PHOENIX—Eric Lee Kinney, 23, of Tonalea, Arizona, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake to 41 months in federal prison for robbery. On April 21, 2009, Kinney pleaded guilty in federal court to robbery.
On December 8, 2008, Kinney, his co-defendant Ambrose Bennett, and ...
September 05, 2009
Washington, D.C.—Rasheeda M. Canty, a former mortgage broker, pled guilty today to engaging in an extensive mortgage fraud scheme involving properties in the District of Columbia and Maryland, Acting U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Joseph Persichini, Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of th...
September 05, 2009
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ARTHUR KISSEL, a/k/a "Arthur Froom," a former cosmetic surgery clinic owner, pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to a scheme to defraud health insurance companies of more than $900,000.
Acc...
September 05, 2009
WASHINGTON—A 27-year-old Hyattsville, Maryland man, Hakeem Blaize, was sentenced today to a term of six months of imprisonment having previously pled guilty to interstate transportation of stolen goods in connection with his theft of more than $30,000 worth of computers and computer equipment ...
September 05, 2009
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department announced that Jacob A. Wingo, Richard W. Robbins, Clayton D. Morrison and Darren E. McKim pleaded guilty today and yesterday to conspiring to drive a woman and her children from their home in Donaldson, Ark., because they associated with African-Americans. A ...
September 05, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. Folmar, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, and J. Thomas Cardwell, Commissioner, State of Florida, Office of Financial Regulation, announced the August ...
September 05, 2009
KANSAS CITY, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that three men with connections to the sovereign citizen movement were convicted by a federal jury today of participating in a conspiracy to use fraudulent diplomatic credentials.
...
September 05, 2009
WASHINGTON—American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. (hereinafter together "Pfizer") have agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice, to resolve criminal and civil liability...
September 05, 2009
John V. Gillies has been named special agent in charge (SAC) of the FBI´s Miami Division. Director Robert S. Mueller, III appointed him to this position to replace former SAC Jonathan I. Solomon, who retired. Most recently, Mr. Gillies served as SAC of the FBI´s St. Louis Division.
Mr...
September 05, 2009
WASHINGTON—A former Ft. Campbell, Ky., soldier was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell to life in prison after being convicted on May 7, 2009, of charges arising out of the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of the girl and her family, Assistant Attorney Gener...
September 05, 2009
WASHINGTON—The former director of sales and marketing for Pacific Consolidated Industries LP (PCI) pleaded guilty today to charges related to the bribery of a U.K. Ministry of Defense (UK-MOD) official in order to obtain lucrative equipment contracts with the U.K. Royal Air Force, in violation...
September 05, 2009
WASHINGTON—Denver resident Lil Vargas-Arias pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Detroit to participating in a conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg of the Eastern District of Michi...
September 05, 2009
WASHINGTON—A former Ft. Campbell, Ky., soldier was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell to life in prison after being convicted on May 7, 2009, of charges arising out of the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of the girl and her family, Assistant Attorney Gener...
September 05, 2009
COLUMBUS—Six Los Angeles, California men involved in the multi-million dollar robbery of a jewelry merchant attending a trade show here pleaded guilty in United States District Court today to one count of conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce (Hobbs Act), punishable by up to 20 year...
September 05, 2009
DALLAS—A federal grand jury has indicted Eugene Lockhart, Jr., 48, a former player with the Dallas Cowboys, and eight others on various charges related to a mortgage fraud scheme he and the others allegedly ran in the Dallas area from 2001 through 2005, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks o...
September 05, 2009
Myron L. Hooker, Jr., 43, of Detroit, Peter Garland, 40, formerly of Southfield, Nicole Jackson, 38, formerly of Detroit and Antwan Mcrea, 35 of Detroit, were sentenced yesterday for obtaining fraudulent mortgage loans on numerous properties and splitting illegal proceeds in varying proportions amon...
September 05, 2009
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CHRISTIAN TORRES, a former New York City Police Officer, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge LAURA TAYLOR SWAIN to armed bank robbery, bank larceny, and conspiracy to defraud a ...
September 05, 2009
HOUSTON—A former accounting supervisor for a Houston area chemicals company has been charged with embezzling more than $3.6 million from her employer, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today.
Diana Simon, 49, of Sugar Land, Texas, appeared before a U.S. Magistrate Judge today and...
August 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—Former New York State Supreme Court Justice Thomas J. Spargo was convicted today by a federal jury in Albany, N.Y., of attempted extortion and soliciting a bribe, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge John F. Pikus of the FBI...
August 29, 2009
On August 19th, 2009, PAWEL GUZAL dob 05/09/1970 a.k.a. JAROMIR HAVRANEK dob 04/26/1973, was captured in the Baltic Sea resort town of Wladyslawowo, Poland.
In or around 2000, GUZAL arrived in the U.S. on a stolen Czech passport. As a result of FBI New York´s investigation, GUZAL was indict...
August 29, 2009
ANCHORAGE, AK—United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that on August 21, 2009, lead defendant Lance Lockard was sentenced to 70 months in prison for his leadership of a large-scale mortgage fraud scheme.
Lockard was the ninth and last defendant to be sentenced for his role in the...
August 29, 2009
PHOENIX, AZ—The FBI Violent Street Gang Task Force and the Maricopa County Attorney´s Office announced today, August 26, 2009, the execution of 14 search warrants and the indictment of over 100 gang members. In January 2007, top area law enforcement officials announced a new targeting st...
August 29, 2009
ST. LOUIS, MO—Smith, Brown, and Adams all have pleaded guilty to federal obstruction charges involving their conspiracy and attempt to obstruct a Federal Election Commission proceeding from July 2004 through December 2007, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap announced today. In addit...
August 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—Former New York State Supreme Court Justice Thomas J. Spargo was convicted today by a federal jury in Albany, N.Y., of attempted extortion and soliciting a bribe, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge John F. Pikus of the FBI...
August 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—James M. Davis, 60, the former chief financial officer of Houston-based Stanford Financial Group (SFG), pleaded guilty today to fraud and obstruction charges related to a $7 billion scheme to defraud investors, Lanny A. Breuer, Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division, an...
August 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—Acting U.S. Attorney Kent S. Robinson and David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced today that Nathaniel James Nicholson, 25, of Eugene, Oregon, appeared before U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown and pled guilty to the crimes of conspiracy to act as an a...
August 29, 2009
HOUSTON—Five men and one woman have been charged in a 16-count indictment with conspiracy and sex trafficking of children and forcing and coercing adults to engage in commercial sex acts, United States Attorney Tim Johnson, Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice´s Crimin...
August 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—Lee William Dubois, a former Department of Defense (DoD) contractor, was sentenced today to three years in prison for his participation in a scheme to steal fuel worth approximately $39.6 million from the U.S. Army in Iraq, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Divisi...
August 29, 2009
SACRAMENTO, CA—United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced that JERALD P. D´SOUZA, 50 of Dublin, Calif., pleaded guilty this morning before United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to using means of interstate commerce to attempt to commit criminal sex acts with a mino...
August 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department today announced that Madhatta Haipe, a citizen of the Philippines, has been extradited from the Philippines to face trial in the District of Columbia for various crimes relating to the hostage taking of U.S. and Philippine citizens in 1995. Haipe was arrested...
August 29, 2009
Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Joseph M. Demarest, Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the FBI, announced the arrest this morning of Hassan Nemazee, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nemazee Capital Corporation, in co...
August 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—Japanese electronics manufacturer Epson Imaging Devices Corporation (Epson) agreed to plead guilty and pay a $26 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices in the sale of Thin Film Transistor-Liquid Crystal Display panels (TFT-LCD) sold to Motorola Inc., the De...
August 29, 2009
United States Attorney Michael L. Levy announced today the filing of a one-count indictment charging James Gautieri with interference with an aircraft or aircraft facilities.
The charge against Gautieri arises out of his involvement in an incident on April 30, 2008 during which Gautieri shined a ...
August 29, 2009
BECKLEY, WV—The former Sheriff of Mercer County pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Thomas E. Johnston to a one-count Information charging him with fraudulently obtaining and possessing hydrocodone. Danny Ray Wills, 63, of Bluefield, WV, is also a medical doctor. According...
August 29, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, VA—Carlic Darnell Brown, age 26, of Prince William County, Va., was sentenced to 384 months in prison today for his involvement in a string of armored car robberies that occurred in Prince William and Fairfax Counties.
Dana J. Boente, United States Attorney for the Eastern Distr...
August 29, 2009
Dennis C. Pfannenschmidt, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania; Janice K. Fedarcyk, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Don Fort, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service announced that Marc Boriosi, age 38 of Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, ...
August 29, 2009
OCALA, FL—U.S. Attorney A. Brian Albritton announces that four individuals—Victor John Walker (age 23), Allen C. Butler (age 25), Katy Rae Radney (age 23), and Jeremy Ryan Nedrick (age 20)—were charged yesterday in a federal criminal complaint that alleges a series of armed robberi...
August 29, 2009
SPRINGFIELD, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former employee for the city of Nixa, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a series of mail fraud and money laundering schemes totaling more than $...
August 29, 2009
SPRINGFIELD, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that nine defendants were sentenced in federal court this week for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute millions of dollars worth of methamphetamine in Barton County, Mo....
August 29, 2009
United States Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan announced today, August 27, 2009, that Eric R. Long, a resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court in Erie to 71 months in jail and ordered to pay $749,500 in restitution on his conviction for mail fraud and wire fraud.
United Stat...
August 29, 2009
Anchorage, Alaska – United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that Xavier Miguel Collins, a resident of Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage to sixty months in prison for possessing crack cocaine.
United States District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess imposed the...
August 29, 2009
Acting United States Attorney Thomas Scott Woodward announced that a former City of Tulsa official pled guilty today in federal court in Tulsa to public corruption charges before the Honorable Magistrate Judge Paul Cleary.
Albert S. Martinez, age 48, formerly the Field Engineering Manager at the ...
August 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department today announced that Madhatta Haipe, a citizen of the Philippines, has been extradited from the Philippines to face trial in the District of Columbia for various crimes relating to the hostage taking of U.S. and Philippine citizens in 1995. Haipe was arrested...
August 29, 2009
McALLEN, TX—Reymundo Guerra, 52, of Rio Grande City, Texas, has been sentenced to 64 months in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons without parole for using his position as Sheriff of Starr County, Texas, to facilitate a drug trafficking organization´s ability to conduct its illicit busi...
August 29, 2009
SYRACUSE, NY—LINDA JONES, age 50, of Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania and LESLIE KNOX, age 62, of Red House, West Virginia pled guilty today before United States District Judge David N. Hurd in Utica, New York to causing false and misleading financial information and reports to be filed with the U....
August 23, 2009
CONCORD, NH—United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire John P. Kacavas, FBI Special Agent in Charge Warren T. Bamford, and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Diane Dechellis today announced that Dorie DiMarca, 52, ...
August 23, 2009
SACRAMENTO, CA—United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced today that JEFFREY SHERMAN BEASLEY, 63, of Lockeford, Calif., has been charged with participating in conspiracies involving honest services fraud and causing the introduction and delivery for introduction of misbranded food into...
August 23, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. Folmar, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, and Christopher B. Dennis, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of I...
August 23, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael J. Folmar, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, announced that a federal jury in Miami found defendant Deangelo Mitchell, 36, of Miami-Dade County, guilt...
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges Property Owner with Fraudulently Selling Bronx Building for $5.9 Mil
August 23, 2009
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the filing of an Indictment yesterday charging MARK M. BENUN with four counts of interstate transportation of the proceeds from the fraudulent sale through mortgage fraud, for more than $5 million, of a ...
August 23, 2009
MUSKOGEE, OK—Sheldon J. Sperling, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that GERALD WAYNE SNOW, SR., a/k/a GERALD SNOW, age 68, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, GERALD WAYNE SNOW, JR., a/k/a JERRY SNOW, age 40, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, AYO DINEJI OLANIYAN, age 33, o...
August 23, 2009
DALLAS—Donald Ray Williams, 54, most recently of Dallas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 23 years in federal prison for the 2007 robbery of a Loomis armored car in which nearly $2 million was stolen, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of...
August 23, 2009
WASHINGTON—Forty-three defendants in the United States and Mexico, including 10 alleged Mexican drug cartel leaders, have been charged in 12 indictments unsealed yesterday and today in U.S. federal courts in Brooklyn and Chicago, the Department of Justice, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ...
August 23, 2009
TYLER, TX—U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that a 62-year-old Hawkins, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas.
HOWARD DALE CHANEY pleaded guilty on Apr. 14, 2009, to receipt of material involving the sexual...
August 23, 2009
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), and JANE HUGHES, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Office of the United States P...
August 23, 2009
LAFAYETTE, LA—Federal, state and local law enforcement agents arrested members of a major drug trafficking organization after an indictment by a federal grand jury. The arrests and unsealing of the federal indictment was announced today by United States Attorney Donald W. Washington.
A 21-c...
August 23, 2009
Acting U.S. Attorney Thomas Scott Woodward announced that a 19 year-old man pled guilty in federal court today to shooting an Indian female acquaintance in the neck.
Brandon Charles Tyler Hendricks, an Indian male from Locust Grove, admitted that he shot the female victim at a video game party at...
August 23, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Anthony V. Mangione, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Office of Investigations in Miami, Michael J. Folmar, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami ...
August 23, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, LA—PAUL HENRY BORITZER, a/k/a John I. Michaels, age 46, a resident of New York, New York, was found guilty by a federal jury after a two-day trial of interfering with a flight crew and impersonating a Federal Air Marshal while he was traveling from New York to New Orleans for Mard...
August 23, 2009
COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins announced today that Oren Eugene Sullivan, age 63, of Rock Hill, South Carolina, was charged in a seven-count Indictment. The Indictment alleges that from around January 1995 through November 2008, Sullivan operated a "ponzi scheme," whereb...
August 23, 2009
TYLER, TX—U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that a 51-year-old Gladewater, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for fraud in the Eastern District of Texas.
C. HUGH BOWDEN, JR., pleaded guilty to an Information on Feb. 26, 2009, charging him with making a false entry in b...
August 23, 2009
KANSAS CITY, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to bank robbery.
Joseph D. Morales, 57, of Kansas City, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wrig...
August 23, 2009
A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on August 19th, 2009, WALTER DORTEZ HILL, age 31, of Belleville, Illinois, was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in East St. Louis, Illinois, in a four-count Indictment charging him with False ...
August 23, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—John C. Richter, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, announced that DAVID LOUIS SIANY, 52, of Illinois, was sentenced yesterday to 15 years of imprisonment for an Oklahoma City bank robbery and Tulsa bank robbery in January 2009. On January 27, 2009, ...
August 23, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. Folmar, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, Quentin Aucoin, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Inspector Genera...
August 23, 2009
ORLANDO, FL—United States Attorney A. Brian Albritton announces that Rhonda Jennette Bays (age 39, of Eustis) today pleaded guilty to producing child pornography and conspiring to travel in interstate commerce in order to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor. Bays faces a maximum pena...
August 23, 2009
WASHINGTON—A former member of the U.S. armed services was sentenced today to 28 months in prison for his role in a widespread bribery and extortion conspiracy that operated from January 2002 through March 2004, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.
R...
August 23, 2009
Covington, KY—The two disbarred lawyers convicted of hoarding more than $94 million from their clients were sentenced today to a combined 540 months in prison. The U.S. District Court Judge, Danny C. Reeves, sentenced William Gallion to 300 months and Shirley A. Cunningham Jr. to 240 months. J...
August 23, 2009
CINCINNATI—A United States District Court jury here today convicted Orlando Carter, 43, of Mason of 11 counts of fraud and conspiracy for misleading lenders in order to secure more than $10 million in loans and lines of credit for the purchase of personal real estate and the operation of his b...
August 23, 2009
BALTIMORE, MD—U.S. District Judge William M. Nickerson sentenced Fonda Deneen White, age 42, of Parkville, Maryland, today to six months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for using the mails to extort money from a Maryland Division of Correction inmate and his family, annou...
August 23, 2009
COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins stated that Jeffrey Patrick Frye, age 45, of Hanahan, South Carolina, pled guilty last Friday in federal court in Charleston to seven counts of bank robbery, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a). Chief United States ...
August 23, 2009
LOUISVILLE, KY—Daniel Ryan Parker, age 38, of Santa Rosa, Florida, (formerly of Crestwood, Kentucky), Jeffrey Allan McGill, age 38, of LaGrange, Kentucky, and Michael D. Harper, age 52, of Scottsville, Kentucky, pled guilty on August 17, 2009, to conspiring to defraud the United States and pay...
August 23, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—Yesterday afternoon, TRISHA DAWN FISH, 30, of Harrah, Oklahoma, pled guilty to embezzlement of life insurance funds intended for the minor child of Army Specialist Jeffrey S. Henthorn, announced John C. Richter, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
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August 23, 2009
DETROIT, MI—Terrence Berg, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, announced that Dennis Paige, 35 of Novi, Michigan was sentenced in Federal District Court today for his conviction of two counts of Transportation of a Minor to Engage in Illegal Sexual Conduct in violation...
August 23, 2009
SANTA ANA, CA—A Newport Beach man convicted of falsely claiming to be an attorney to courts, real lawyers and paying clients has been sentenced to an additional two years in federal prison for again posing as a lawyer only days after he completed a seven-year prison term.
Harold Goldstein, ...
August 23, 2009
United States Attorney Andrew T. Baxter announced today that a Dewitt woman has pleaded guilty in federal court to mail fraud.
Cheryl A. Nelli, 54, 3315 East Genesee Street, Dewitt, admitted to embezzling over $595,000 from Dairylea Cooperative, Inc., where she was formerly employed. From May, 20...
August 23, 2009
WICHITA, KN—Daryl McNeil, 46, Wichita, Kan., has been sentenced to 108 months for bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Lanny Welch said today.
In June 2009, McNeil pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery with a dangerous weapon. In his plea, McNeil admitted that on Aug. 23, 2006, he robbed Fidel...
August 23, 2009
PHOENIX—Jake David Abegg Whitman, 33, of Mesa, Ariz., pleaded guilty on August 18, 2009, to one count of Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud and seven counts of Bank Fraud.
Whitman played a leadership role in the underlying conspiracy, which involved 19 unimproved residential properties in the ...
August 23, 2009
PHILADELPHIA—Jose Antonio Santiago, 66, of Downingtown and Toughkenamon, was sentenced today to 319 months in prison for the violent hostage-taking of a West Chester resident, from the victim´s home, at gunpoint, for ransom, in October 2004, announced United States Attorney Michael L. Le...
August 23, 2009
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BRIAN H. MADDEN was indicted today on charges that he misappropriated and embezzled over $4.7 million of escrow, client, and other operating funds from three title insurance agencies that he controlled an...
August 23, 2009
Kevin Watson and Jaqueline Jackson, former owners of health care agencies, and two of eight defendants charged in a scheme to solicit and pay kickbacks in exchange for Medicare patients, pleaded guilty today, United States Attorney Terrence Berg announced.
U.S. Attorney Berg was joined in the ann...
August 23, 2009
SANTA ANA, CA—An Orange County man who admitted running a multifaceted fraud scheme that bilked hundreds of victims out of approximately $55 million was sentenced today to 27 years in federal prison.
Colin Nathanson, 62, who lived in Coto De Caza until his arrest in 2005, was sentenced to 3...
August 23, 2009
GAINESVILLE, GA—MICHAEL ROBERT DEJONG, 24, of Auburn, Georgia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge William C. O´Kelley to serve one year in federal prison on a charge of using the Internet to threaten to destroy buildings of the Federal Bureau of Investigation by fire or ...
August 23, 2009
POLLOCK, LA—SHAUN WAYNE WILLIAMS, age 37, an inmate at U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana, was convicted by a federal jury today of voluntary manslaughter for killing another inmate, United States Attorney Donald W. Washington announced.
WILLIAMS was charged by a federal grand jury on ...
August 22, 2009
Statement of Director Robert S. Mueller, III, Federal Bureau of Investigation
We are deeply disappointed over the decision to release Abdel Basset Mohamed al-Megrahi from prison. Mr. Megrahi´s guilt was firmly established by the court. His conviction resulted in a life sentence for his part...
August 22, 2009
GAINESVILLE, GA—MICHAEL ROBERT DEJONG, 24, of Auburn, Georgia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge William C. O´Kelley to serve one year in federal prison on a charge of using the Internet to threaten to destroy buildings of the Federal Bureau of Investigation by fire or ...
August 22, 2009
United States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt announced that Elizabeth Ramos and her husband, Louis Williams, pled guilty today in federal court in San Diego to wire fraud in connection with the continuing corruption prosecution involving Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command ("SPAWAR"), a government org...
August 22, 2009
WASHINGTON—Five members of an extended family were sentenced to federal prison late yesterday, all receiving lengthy sentences for their roles in an international sex trafficking ring that lured young Guatemalan women and girls to the Los Angeles area and forced them into prostitution, the Jus...
August 22, 2009
ATLANTA, GA—ROBERT P. COPELAND, 47, of Marietta, Georgia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Beverly B. Martin to serve over 10 years in federal prison on a charge of wire fraud, relating to a $40 million investment fraud scheme.
United States Attorney David E. Nahmias said...
August 22, 2009
WASHINGTON—Miami residents Jose and Arnaldo Rosario pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program of approximately $15.3 million, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg of the Eastern District of ...
August 22, 2009
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), and JANE HUGHES, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Office of the United States P...
August 22, 2009
KANSAS CITY, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Anaheim, Calif., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a $12.6 million mortgage fraud conspiracy that involved 25 upscale residential properties in Lee&ac...
August 22, 2009
WASHINGTON—A federal grand jury in San Francisco has returned an indictment against a former executive of a large Taiwanese color display tube (CDT) manufacturing company for participating in a global conspiracy to fix prices of CDTs, a type of cathode ray tube used in computer monitors and ot...
August 22, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAFAEL GONZALEZ, 35, of Park Street, Hartford, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for d...
August 22, 2009
NEWARK—Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini and Edward Cheatam, an official in both Hudson County and Jersey City, were charged today in a one-count Indictment with conspiring to extort corrupt cash payments, illicit political contributions, and other benefits under color of official right, ...
August 22, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. Folmar, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, and Christopher B. Dennis, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of I...
August 22, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael J. Folmar, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, announced that defendants Gerard Bellafiore, 39, Thomas Valenti, 33, Jose Calderon, 38, Jorge Diaz, 37, a...
August 22, 2009
A 50-year-old St. Paul man was indicted this week in federal court in connection with the Sept. 25, 2008, robbery of a TCF Bank in St. Paul.
Frazier Eugene Turner was charged Aug. 19 with one count of bank robbery. Turner´s indictment alleges he took $600 from the bank located in a Cub Food...
Cliffside Park Man Pleads Guilty to Illegal Possession of Guns and Silencers and HollowPoint Bullets
August 22, 2009
NEWARK—A Cliffside Park man pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal gun charge, admitting that he illegally possessed five firearms, two silencers and hollow-point bullets in his home, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr. announced.
Giovanni DeMaio, 59, pleaded guilty before U.S. District...
August 22, 2009
HOUSTON—A Mexican national illegally in the United States has been indicted for sex trafficking of a child, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. The indictment, returned today by a federal grand jury in Houston is the result of an investigation conducted by member agencies of th...
August 22, 2009
MCALLEN, TX—Fabian Aurignac, M.D., the owner and operator of Cardiology Care Center has been sentenced to prison for committing more than $1 million in Health Care Fraud for submitting false and fraudulent claims to both the Medicare and Medicaid health care programs, United States Attorney Ti...
August 22, 2009
GAINESVILLE, GA—BRUCE ALLEN HUGHES, 48, of Blairsville, Georgia, pleaded guilty this morning in federal district court to two counts of conspiracy to commit the armed robbery of 29 banks over 11 years, five counts of armed bank robbery, six counts of use of a firearm during the commission of a...
August 22, 2009
PHOENIX—Donald Carl Bennett, 38, of Kaibeto, Ariz., was sentenced to 54 months in federal prison yesterday by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Martone. After Bennett´s release, he is required to reside in an inpatient alcohol rehabilitation program while on three years of supervised rele...
August 22, 2009
ERIC CHARLES SANFORD, 21, of Seattle, Washington, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 46 months in prison and three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm. SANFORD was arrested on November 15, 2008, following a traffic stop in central Seattle. S...
August 22, 2009
Three members of a Renton, Washington, family, were sentenced this morning in U. S. District Court in Seattle in connection with a bank fraud scheme that abused student loan programs. The leader of the scheme, LESLIE Y. GORDON, 36, of Renton, Washington, was sentenced to five years in prison, five y...
August 22, 2009
WASHINGTON—A former Congressional staffer and chief of staff in two federal agencies was indicted today by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on public corruption charges, the Justice Department announced.
The five-count indictment charges Horace M. Cooper, 44, of Lorton, Va.,...
August 22, 2009
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), Brigadier General RODNEY L. JOHNSON, Commanding General of the United States Army Cr...
August 10, 2009
WASHINGTON—A Canadian citizen has been charged in an indictment unsealed yesterday for his alleged participation in an eight-year conspiracy to defraud the United Nations Oil for Food Program (OFFP) and to bribe Iraqi government officials in connection with the sale of a chemical additive used...
August 10, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service reminds consumers to avoid identity theft scams that use the IRS name, logo or Web site in an attempt to convince taxpayers that the scam is a genuine communication from the IRS. Scammers may use other federal agency names, such as the U.S. Department ...
August 10, 2009
LEV L. DASSIN, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), and RAYMOND W. KELLY, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York ("NYPD"), announced ...
August 10, 2009
BOSTON, MA—Six former managers of Aggregate Industries N.E., Inc.´s concrete division, the largest asphalt and concrete supply company in New England, were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States by a jury in U.S. District Court in Boston late yesterday.
Acting United Sta...
August 10, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, LA—Shannon Harp, age 38, a former resident of Mandeville, Louisiana, pled guilty today in federal court before U. S. District Judge Jay C. Zainey to a one count bill of information for wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.
According to the factual basis, was employed ...
August 10, 2009
United States Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan announced today, August 4, 2009, that Jason Scalise, a resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court in Erie to one hundred and sixty-eight months in jail and ten years' supervised release on his conviction of violating federal laws rel...
August 10, 2009
A Glendale man was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison for orchestrating a $14 million Ponzi scheme, one of the three frauds that led him to plead guilty in three separate cases earlier this year.
Antoine David Haroutunian, 47, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Percy ...
August 10, 2009
ST. LOUIS, MO—Mike Martin Mollet and Glen Roy Mollet were indicted on federal charges of possession of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap announced today.
MIKE MARTIN MOLLET, Rush Hill, Missouri; and GLEN ROY MOLLET, also of Rush Hill, Missouri; were each indic...
August 10, 2009
Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is asking for the public´s help in identifying the individual depicted in the attached wanted flyer, who is believed responsible for the armed robbery of at least two (2) northwest subur...
August 10, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney, Hugo Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Robert Parker, Director, Miami–Dade Police Department, Rafael P. Hernandez, Jr., Chief, North Miami Beach Police Department, and Richard Naue, Chief, Ci...
August 10, 2009
United States Attorney Marty J. Jackley announced that a man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for bootlegging on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Craig Janis, age 44, of Kyle, was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 21, 2009, for dispensing intoxicants in Indian country. He appeared ...
August 10, 2009
Edward H. Okun, the former owner of The 1031 Tax Group LLP (1031TG), was sentenced today to 100 years in prison for his leading role in a scheme to defraud and obtain approximately $126 million in client funds held by 1031TG.
Okun was also ordered to forfeit $40 million by U.S. District Judge Rob...
August 10, 2009
BALTIMORE, MD—U.S. District Judge William M. Nickerson sentenced Jeffrey L. Fowlkes, age 41, an inmate in the Maryland Division of Correction, today to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for using the mails to extort money from a another Maryland Division of Corr...
August 10, 2009
ATLANTA, GA—MELISSA DEATON TESVICH, 41, of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced to federal prison today by United States District Judge Richard W. Story, for filing a false tax return in connection with her ex-husband´s scheme to defraud Home Depot.
United States Attorney David E. Nahmias s...
August 10, 2009
LOUISVILLE, KY—A federal grand jury in Louisville returned an indictment against Igor Nasonov, age 33, of Louisville, Kentucky, in Jefferson County, for distributing and possessing child pornography using his computer and a file sharing program. Nasonov was charged in a Criminal Complaint fil...
August 10, 2009
Ralph S. Boelter, Special Agent in Charge of the Minneapolis FBI office, today, announced the federal arrest of William Lynn Isham, age 20, of Nett Lake, Minnesota, for the alleged July 20, 2009 arson at the Boise Forte Reservation Tribal Center. FBI and Bureau of Indian Affairs agents arrested Isha...
August 10, 2009
On July 31, 2009, Jerry Wayne Miller Jr., aka "Buck", age 35 of Pascagoula, Mississippi, and Carl Wayne Rasmussen, age 25, of Moss Point, Mississippi, were sentenced in United States District Court, Gulfport, Mississippi, by United States District Judge Sul Ozerden. The pair was sentenced for the...
August 10, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael J. Folmar, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced the various sentencings of defendants Ramon Puentes, Jorge Nobrega, Jorge Arrieta and Sebastian Kishinevsky for the...
August 10, 2009
DENVER—Timothy Ryan Gutierrez, age 21, formerly of Cortez, Colorado, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to serve 4 years of probation, with the first 10 months in home detention with electronic monitoring, for threatening the then President-elect of...
August 10, 2009
SACRAMENTO, CA—United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced today that MICHAEL ANDREW WILLIAMS, 28, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty this morning to a single count of bank robbery before United States District Court Judge Frank C. Damrell Jr.
This case is the product of an investigation ...
August 10, 2009
Two owners and the manager of two Suffolk County bars were arrested last night pursuant to a federal complaint charging them with crimes involving forced prostitution. The complaint charges Antonio Rivera, Jasmin Rivera, and John Whaley with conspiracy, sex trafficking, forced labor, and alien harbo...
August 10, 2009
BALTIMORE, MD—U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Darron Goods, a/k/a "Moo-man," age 25, of Baltimore, today to three consecutive mandatory life sentences for the murder of federal witness John Dowery, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein....
August 10, 2009
United States Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan announced today, August 7, 2009, that Dorothy Hunt, a resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to two years of probation on her conviction of counterfeiting a seal of the court of the United...
August 10, 2009
LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), announced that MILANA MURCIA of Greenwich, Connecticut, pleaded guilty to...
August 10, 2009
WILMINGTON, DEL—Acting U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss and Tricia A. Gibbs, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Supervisory Special Agent announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging Marcus Patmon with wire fraud in the attempted sale of a stolen Pablo Picasso etching entitled "Le Re...
August 10, 2009
BEVERLEE KAMERLING, 65, of Bellevue, Washington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Richard Jones to 90 months (7+ years) in prison for her role in a "pump and dump" securities fraud scheme in which more than 3,300 investors lost over $2.4 million. As part of the scheme, the conspirators acq...
August 10, 2009
SYRACUSE, NY—United States Attorney, Andrew T. Baxter, today announced that Jerome Howard Feldman entered a plea of guilty today before United States District Court Judge David N. Hurd in Utica to a five count Indictment charging him with wire fraud.
On February 11, 2009, Feldman was indict...
August 10, 2009
LAREDO, TX—Mexican citizen Jose Guadalupe Ramirez Ortiz, 33, has been convicted of falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen and committing aggravated identity theft during his attempted illegal entry into the country earlier this year, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Ortiz ple...
August 10, 2009
PHILADELPHIA—Christopher Wright, 45, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for conspiracy to commit honest services mail and wire fraud, honest services mail fraud, and mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Michael L. Levy. Wright was serving as chief of staff to a...
August 10, 2009
WASHINGTON—A former U.S. Army contracting official pleaded guilty today to accepting more than $80,000 in bribes in exchange for providing contract work to two Afghan trucking companies, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boe...
August 10, 2009
A 27-year-old Kansas man pleaded guilty today in federal court to robbing an Anchor Bank in St. Paul Park on May 29.
Christopher Shane Green, Junction City, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery. He entered his plea on Aug. 7 in St. Paul before United States District Court Judge Richa...
August 10, 2009
EVANSVILLE, IN—Kimberly D. Vierling, 45, of Newburgh, Indiana, was sentenced to three years of probation with the first six months requiring residence in a work release center yesterday by U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young following her guilty plea to mail fraud, announced Timothy M. Morris...
August 10, 2009
PHOENIX—Melvin Pascal Nash, 23, and Mason James Henry, 20, both of San Carlos, Ariz., on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, pleaded guilty this week to Second Degree Murder. The terms of Nash´s guilty plea include an agreed upon sentence of 300 months in prison. The terms of Henry...
August 10, 2009
PHOENIX—A federal grand jury in Phoenix returned a five-count indictment this week against Eugene Joseph Escalanti, 33, of Tucson, Arizona, for First Degree Murder, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, Kidnapping, Felony Murder, and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
The indictment all...
August 10, 2009
ST. LOUIS, MO—Kevin Shade has pleaded guilty to mail fraud in connection with falsifying inspections for S & H Parking Systems, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap announced today.
According to the facts filed with the court, between October 2004 and August 2008, St. Louis Metropo...
August 10, 2009
BALTIMORE, MD—U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Jamal Stewart, age 32, of Baltimore today to 262 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine and heroin, announced United Sta...
August 10, 2009
PHILADELPHIA—Christopher Wright, 45, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for conspiracy to commit honest services mail and wire fraud, honest services mail fraud, and mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Michael L. Levy. Wright was serving as chief of staff to a...
August 10, 2009
WASHINGTON—Miami physician Keith Russell, 65, and physician´s assistant Jorge Luis Pacheco, 50, were each sentenced to 97 months in prison, and physician´s assistant Eda Marietta Milanes, 43, was sentenced to 63 months in prison, for their roles in fraud schemes that involved billi...
August 10, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael J. Folmar, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, announced that on Friday, August 7, 2009, a federal jury in Miami convicted defendant Ramon Santos, of Hi...
August 10, 2009
ST. LOUIS, MO—Jody M. Smith, a business manager of an illegal, international business selling counterfeit goods and illegal pharmaceuticals, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap announced today.
According to the facts filed with the court, ...
August 10, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHARLES LAMONT JACKSON, also known as "Doo Doo," 40, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Mark R. Kravitz in New Haven to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supe...
August 10, 2009
Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was joined today by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois in announcing the arrest of a Chicago man for making unauthorized radio transmissions over freque...
August 10, 2009
LOS ANGELES—In two separate cases, three men have been sentenced to federal prison for attempting to transport sensitive and advanced U.S. technology to the People's Republic of China (PRC). Two men were sentenced yesterday, and another man linked to one of the schemes was sentenced last week ...
August 10, 2009
After hearing evidence for more than one month in a federal court in Alexandria, Va., a jury found Jefferson guilty on 11 charged counts, including solicitation of bribes, honest services wire fraud, money laundering, racketeering and conspiracy. Jefferson was acquitted on three counts of honest se...
August 10, 2009
HOUSTON—Kobie Diallo Willaims, 36, convicted of conspiring to unlawfully possess firearms by an alien and supporting the Taliban, has been sentenced to prison, United States Attorney Tim Johnson, FBI Houston Division Special Agent in Charge Richard C. Powers and David Kris, Assistant Attorney ...
August 10, 2009
LAS VEGAS— The owner of a Nevada investment company who misappropriated over $50 million of client monies to fund loans for his own pet projects, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud, announced Greg Brower, U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada.
Joseph D. Milanowski, 48, of Las Vegas, ente...
August 10, 2009
LOS ANGELES—The Grand Rabbi of Spinka, a religious group within Orthodox Judaism, pleaded guilty this morning to a criminal conspiracy charge, admitting that he worked with others to obstruct the Internal Revenue Service by soliciting charitable donations with secret promises to refund donors ...
August 10, 2009
WASHINGTON—Two dual Afghan/U.S. citizens today pleaded guilty for their roles in a scheme to offer $1 million in bribes to a U.S. Army contracting official in Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente of the East...
August 10, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—James E. Finch, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Oklahoma, announced the arrest of Terrance Lynn McGuire related to the January 18, 2007 kidnaping of a 10 year-old girl from Texhoma, Oklahoma.
At approximately 6:30 p.m. on January 18, 2007,...
August 10, 2009
ROME, GA—JOSHUA DAVID LOWE, 25, of Aragon, Georgia, a former sergeant at the Polk County Jail, pleaded guilty today in federal court to a civil rights charge of using excessive force against an inmate in his custody.
United States Attorney David E. Nahmias said, "We recognize that detention...
August 10, 2009
Jeffery H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael J. Folmar, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today the arrest of defendant Luis Robert Altamarino.
According to the Indictment filed on August 4, 2009, Altam...
August 10, 2009
United States Attorney Andrew T. Baxter, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Pikus, and Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation, Patricia J. Haynes jointly announced today that a federal grand jury returned a 29- count indictment chargin...
August 10, 2009
WASHINGTON—A New Jersey accountant pleaded guilty today to laundering portions of more than $300,000 stolen from the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in the Republic of Iraq and brought back to the United States by his wife, a former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, announced Assistant Attor...
August 10, 2009
NEWARK, NJ—It´s the type of story that is becoming increasingly more common: FBI Special Agent In Charge Weysan Dun announced today the arrests of GARTH CELESTINE, age 44, of 535 Dean Street, Apartment 515, Brooklyn, New York; and PHIL A. SIMON, age, 34, of Brooklyn – both better known ...
August 10, 2009
LOUISVILLE, KY—Michael Keith Adler, a/k/a top_driver, age 44, of Louisville Kentucky, was sentenced on August 5, 2009 by United States District Judge John G. Heyburn to 6 years and 3 months imprisonment to be followed by 10 years supervised release and compliance with sex offender registry for...
August 10, 2009
TAMPA, FL—United States Attorney A. Brian Albritton announces that Thomas E. Stringer (Tampa, Florida) today pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud before Magistrate Judge Mark A. Pizzo. Stringer faces a maximum penalty of thirty years in federal prison. However, because it appears that no ...
August 10, 2009
WICHITA , KN—Mario Hutton, 35, Wichita, has been sentenced to 96 months in federal prison on racketeering charges, U.S. Attorney Lanny Welch said today.
In February 2009, Hutton pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to engage in a pattern of racketeering activity in violation of the fed...
August 10, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, LA—MICHELLE COCHRANE, age 48, a resident of Folsom, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday in federal court by U. S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier to one year and one day in federal prison for her role in a conspiracy to make false statements to obtain HUD insurance, announced U. S. ...
August 10, 2009
LOUISVILLE, KY—A federal grand jury in Louisville returned a eleven count indictment on August 4, 2009, against Henry M. Humphrey and Kevin Harris, both of Louisville, Kentucky, on charges of Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Wire Fraud, and Submitting a False Writing to the United Stat...
August 10, 2009
DENVER—Six Colorado Springs men were arrested yesterday, three based on a Criminal Complaint for crack cocaine trafficking, and three based on state drug charges, Acting United States Attorney David Gaouette, FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge James Davis, 4th Judicial District Attorn...
August 10, 2009
BEAUMONT, TX—U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that 6 individuals have been indicted and charged in connection with their involvement in an illegal gambling operation in the Eastern District of Texas. The following individuals were named in the 8 count indictment returned late yester...
August 10, 2009
An attorney was arrested late Tuesday after accepting $53,500 in cash that he believed was half of a bribe being paid in exchange for him instructing his client to lie to a federal prosecutor and a federal grand jury investigating allegations of immigration fraud.
Alfred Nash Villalobos, 44, a So...
August 10, 2009
SAVANNAH, GA—Edmund A. Booth, Jr., United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, announced today the return of a seventy-seven count indictment by the federal grand jury against Savannah attorney Benjamin Sheftall Eichholz, age 58, charging an alleged scheme to embezzle more tha...
August 10, 2009
LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that ERIC SKYS, the former Chairman, President, and CEO of Kaiser Himmel Corporation, based in Rockwood, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today after two days of a jury trial, to all five counts of an Indict...
August 10, 2009
ATLANTA—Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Gregory Jones, FBI Atlanta, announces the following arrest conducted by the FBI´s Safe Child Task Force along with the Atlanta Police Department.
On Friday, August 7, 2009, Philip V. Emanuel, age 44, of Atlanta, Georgia, was arrested without incid...
August 10, 2009
ATLANTA—Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Gregory Jones, FBI Atlanta, announces the following arrest conducted by the FBI´s Safe Child Task Force along with the Atlanta Police Department.
On Friday, August 7, 2009, Philip V. Emanuel, age 44, of Atlanta, Georgia, was arrested without incid...
August 10, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, VA—Christopher Blakeney, age 21, of Prince William County, Va., was sentenced to 384 months in prison today for his involvement in a string of armored car robberies that occurred in Prince William and Fairfax Counties.
Dana J. Boente, United States Attorney for the Eastern Distr...
August 10, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade County State Attorney, Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Field Division, Michael J. Folmar, Acting Special Agent in Char...
August 10, 2009
ST. LOUIS, MO—Randall Sutton was indicted on mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering charges involving a ten-year multi- million dollar fraud scheme involving the sale of pre-paid funeral services, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap announced today.
Randall Sutton was the Chi...
August 10, 2009
NEW YORK—Lev L. Dassin, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Joseph M. Demarest, Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced today the filing of an indictment charging Douglas Rennick with b...
August 04, 2009
Arrest Man on Federal Drug Charges
Roma, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Roma International Bridge seized close to 163 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of close to $130,000.
On July 29, CBP officers working at the Roma/Ciudad Miguel Alema...
August 01, 2009
San Marcos - Yesterday, officers from the Chula Vista, San Diego, National City, Oceanside, Escondido, San Diego State University, San Diego Sheriff's Office and California Highway Patrol teamed up to conduct a multi-agency Illegal Street Racing and Modification Enforcement operation. The operation ...
July 20, 2009
A federal Indictment charging Samuel L. Riddle, Jr., of Detroit, Michigan, with conspiring with former Detroit City Council President Pro Tempore Monica Conyers to use her positions on the City Council and the Board of Trustees of the City´s General Retirement System and Riddle´s positio...
July 20, 2009
BOSTON—A former resident of Somerville, Mass. who has been living in South Korea was arrested today after arriving at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.
An indictment, originally returned on March 1, 2007, was unsealed today charging Buford George Peterson and Oussama Abdul Ziade, both fo...
July 20, 2009
A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on July 13, 2009, CATHARINE L. MILLER, age 33, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in the United States District Court in East St. Louis, Illinois. MILLER was sentenced to 120 months´ ...
July 20, 2009
MADISON, WI—Stephen P. Sinnott, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Abigail K. Eichelkraut, 25, New Glarus, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday, July 13, in U.S. District Court in Madison to 15 months in federal prison without the possibility of p...
July 20, 2009
CAMDEN, NJ—The former president of an Essex County leasing company pleaded guilty today to a federal Information that charged him with embezzling approximately $6.2 million from his employer, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, announced.
John W. Manning, 54, a.k.a. "Jack," of Millington, ...
July 20, 2009
COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins stated that Bartholomew B. Hansen, age 29, of Aurora, Illinois, was sentenced in federal court for using the telephone to make a bomb threat to the Shaw Air Force Base Fire Station in Sumter, South Carolina. United States District Judge Cam...
July 20, 2009
SPARTANBURG, SC—United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins stated today that Harold Anthony "Tony" Trout, age 53, of Greer, South Carolina, appeared for sentencing today in Spartanburg, South Carolina, before United States District Judge Henry F. Floyd. Trout was previously convicted of two coun...
July 20, 2009
SANTA ANA, CA—A former Rockwell and Boeing engineer from Orange County was remanded into custody this morning after a federal judge convicted him of charges of economic espionage and acting as an agent of the People´s Republic of China, for whom he stole restricted technology and Boeing ...
July 20, 2009
Leticia Bosemon, 38, of Inkster and former employee of the City of Dearborn Building and Safety Department pleaded guilty today to accepting bribes in return for issuing temporary certificates of occupancy for residential property in the City of Dearborn.
United States Attorney Terrence G. Berg w...
July 20, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, announced that defendant, Lesmany Nunez, 30, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Federico A. More...
July 20, 2009
On July 16, 2009 the FBI released bank crime statistics for the first quarter of 2009. Between January 1, 2009 and March 31, 2009, there were 1,498 robberies of financial institutions*, 18 burglaries, five larcenies, and three extortions reported. This represents 1,524 reported violations of the Fed...
July 20, 2009
MCALLEN, TX—A United States Probation Officer has been arrested and charged with drug trafficking and bribery, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today.
Armando Mora, 36, of Edinburg, Texas, assigned to the Rio Grande City office of the United States Probation Office, was arrested...
July 20, 2009
LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SAMUEL ISRAEL III was sentenced today to two years in prison for failing to surrender to serve a 20-year prison sentence for fraudulently inducing investments in the Bayou hedge funds of over $450 ...
July 20, 2009
TRENTON—A Deputy United States Marshal was convicted today in federal court of one count of providing a firearm and ammunition to someone convicted of, and under indictment for, a felony, and one count of perjury for lying about the matter before a federal grand jury, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralp...
July 20, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN PAULINE, 48, of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to three years of probation, the first six months of which PAULINE mu...
July 20, 2009
KANSAS CITY, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an Ottawa, Kan., man pleaded guilty in federal court to the attempted commercial sex trafficking of a child.
This conviction is the result of Operation Guardian Angel,...
July 20, 2009
KANSAS CITY, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for his role in a mortgage fraud conspiracy that involved loans on 34 properties totaling more than $3.6 mill...
July 20, 2009
BECKLEY, WV—Charles Kenton Grimes, 38, of Beckley, West Virginia, pled guilty yesterday before United States District Judge Thomas E. Johnston, admitting he possessed child pornography.
The conviction stems from an investigation conducted by the West Virginia State Police's Internet Crimes ...
July 20, 2009
Stephen H. Rosenberg, 51, of Alexandria, VA., was arrested yesterday and charged with transmitting through interstate commerce threats to kill white judges in South Carolina as well as threats designed to influence or intimate a federal judge hearing a civil case in which Rosenberg is the plaintiff,...
July 20, 2009
PADUCAH, KY—Stephanie Johnson, age 26, of Clarksville, Tennessee, in Montgomery County, was sentenced to five years´ probation by Chief Judge Thomas B. Russell in United States District Court, Paducah, Kentucky, for assault of a person under 16 years of age, Acting U.S. Attorney Candace ...
July 20, 2009
Lexington, KY—A Scott County Emergency Management Captain pleaded guilty today to possessing images of child pornography.
Eric Dwayne Westerfield, 35, waived his right to be indicted by a federal grand jury and pleaded guilty to the charges brought by United States Attorney James Zerhusen.
...
July 20, 2009
PADUCAH, KY—John B. Robertson, age 65, of Paducah, Kentucky in McCracken County, was sentenced to one year and nine months' imprisonment for bank fraud, Acting U.S. Attorney Candace G. Hill of the Western District of Kentucky announced today. Thomas B. Russell, Chief Judge, United States Distr...
July 20, 2009
Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was joined today by Brian Truchon, Special Agent-in-Charge of the FBI´s Kansas City office, in announcing the arrest of a suspect in a Missouri fraud scheme.
HARRIS POULIKIDIS, age 61...
July 19, 2009
KANSAS CITY, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two men have been charged for participating in a conspiracy that involved several armed bank robberies this week and culminated in a vehicle pursuit and shoot-out with la...
July 19, 2009
United States Attorney Terrence Berg announced today that 71-year-old Wyman Wright, of Saginaw, Michigan, was found guilty yesterday by a federal jury in Bay City on charges of receipt and possession of child pornography,
The jury deliberated for less than one hour before returning the verdict, c...
July 19, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Six members of the 22nd Street Crew, Lannell Cooper, 29, Michael Tann, 31, Antonio Arnette, 28, James Rushing, 29, Dajuan Beaver, 26, and Saquawn Harris, 33, have been found guilty of multiple counts of first and second-degree murder while armed, conspiracy, obstruction of jus...
July 19, 2009
DOUGLAS MICHAEL COX, 51, of Seattle, Washington, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 235 months in prison and five years of supervised release for Armed Bank Robbery. COX was arrested July 1, 2008, following a bank robbery and high speed chase from West Seattle to downtown Seatt...
July 19, 2009
JOHN W. ZIDAR, 66, formerly of Gardnerville, Nevada, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 30 years in prison and three years of supervised release for leading what prosecutors call the largest Ponzi scheme ever prosecuted in the Western District of Washington. ZIDAR was originall...
July 19, 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV—A Las Vegas street gang member has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder and using a firearm during a crime of violence for the attempted murder of a man that occurred during a shootout at the Buena Vista apartment complex in North Las Vegas on September 13, 2004, announced Greg...
July 19, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOBY GEORGE, 35, of Cliffwood, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to before United States District Judge Mark R. Kravitz in New Haven to one count of health care fraud. In addition, GEORGE has entered into a civil...
July 19, 2009
United States Attorney Matt M. Dummermuth announced today that a woman who defrauded victims out of at least $4 million pled guilty today in federal court in Sioux City.
CHARLENE MARIE PICKHINKE, 48, from Sac City, Iowa, was convicted of one count each of wire fraud, making a false statement in a...
July 19, 2009
Darin Demizio, a former Executive Director at Morgan Stanley and the head of its domestic securities lending desk, was sentenced today to 38 months´ imprisonment, and three years of supervised release for conspiring to commit securities fraud and wire fraud and making a false statement to agen...
July 19, 2009
WASHINGTON—Frederic A. Bourke Jr., 63, was found guilty today by a federal jury in Manhattan of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the Travel Act, and making false statements to the FBI, the Department of Justice announced. Bourke, of Greenwich, Conn., was convi...
July 19, 2009
Geoffrey Ramseur, 52, of Rockledge, Florida (formerly of Northville, Michigan), was sentenced yesterday to 20 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $121,000.00 after having been convicted on health care fraud charges, announced United States Attorney Terrence Berg.
Mr. ...
July 19, 2009
SHANNON HARP, age 38, a former resident of Metairie, Louisiana, was charged in a one-count bill of information with wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.
According to the bill of information, starting in 2003, HARP, devised a scheme by which money which was supposed to be used to make c...
July 19, 2009
PHILADELPHIA, PA—Yevgeny Zemlyansky, 62, of Feasterville, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for one count of asylum fraud, one count of conspiracy, two counts of money laundering, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, and one count of making false statements to the feder...
July 19, 2009
ATLANTA, GA—LAING YANG, 37, of Duluth, Georgia was sentenced today by United States District Judge Timothy C. Batten to serve 5 years in federal prison on charges of conspiring to harbor illegal aliens.
United States Attorney David E. Nahmias said, "Operating out of a strip mall in Chamblee...
July 19, 2009
HONOLULU, HI—HAROLD C. SPEAR, III, M.D., 56, formerly of Hanapepe, Hawaii, today pled guilty to four counts of dispensing controlled substances "outside the usual course of professional practice" and "not for a legitimate medical purpose." SPEAR also pled guilty to one additional similar charg...
July 19, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, today announced the return of an Indictment charging Stephen Bross, 38, with three counts of receipt of child ...
July 19, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, Sheriff Al Lamberti, Broward Sheriff´s Office, and Director Robert L. Parker, Miami-Dade Police Department, ...
July 19, 2009
Thank you, Chairman Dodd and Ranking Member Shelby, for providing me with this opportunity to testify about the Administration's proposal to establish a new, strong financial regulatory agency charged with just one job: looking out for consumers across the financial services landscape.
The need c...
July 19, 2009
WYOMING—On Saturday morning, July 11, 2009, at approximately 3:00 a.m., the Wind River Police Department notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Lander Resident Agency, of a male found dead inside a residence on the Wind River Reservation. The deceased male was identified as Ritchie Tidz...
July 19, 2009
WASHINGTON—George Michael Lee, Duc Cong Nguyen, Hop Nguyen and Tien Duc Vu were sentenced today in San Diego for their roles in a scheme by the "Tran Organization" to cheat casinos across the United States and Canada, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S....
July 19, 2009
RICHMOND, VA—Walter Guilbeault, age 60, of Hopewell, Va., was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge James R. Spencer to 60 months incarceration for one count of Receipt of Child Pornography. Guilbeault pled guilty to the charge on March 5, 2009. Dana J. Boente, Acting United ...
July 19, 2009
TUCSON, AZ—Franklin Lloyd Antone, 69, of Sells, Ariz., was sentenced on July 10, 2009, by U.S. District Judge David C. Bury to 72 months in federal prison and lifetime supervision upon his release from custody. Antone was found guilty by a federal jury on March 27, 2009 of Abusive Sexual Conta...
July 19, 2009
SACRAMENTO–Acting United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced today that LAPHONE VONGKEO, 32, of Stockton, pleaded guilty today to embezzling from a program receiving federal funds. The guilty plea was entered before United States District Judge Frank C. Damrell, Jr.
This case is the produ...
July 19, 2009
CHICAGO—The self-proclaimed founding member of a street gang that purports to exert control through use of violence over hardcore punk rock music in clubs and concert venues in major cities nationwide was arrested yesterday by FBI agents in Los Angeles on a federal extortion charge filed in Ch...
July 19, 2009
ABU DHABI – Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner joined HE Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of Foreign Trade, today for a breakfast event hosted by the U.S.-UAE Business Council to recognize the importance of education policy in the Middle East in the drive for global economic...
July 19, 2009
SANTA ANA, CA—A former player with the Tennessee Titans pleaded guilty this afternoon to federal fraud charges related to a $5 million Ponzi scheme in which he collected funds with promises of high rates of returns on investments in loan programs, including multimillion dollar condominium proj...
July 20, 2009
WASHINGTON—The former director of information technology for a non-profit organ and tissue donation center was sentenced today to two years in prison for hacking into her former employer´s computer network, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and...
July 17, 2009
The Chula Vista Police Department has been awarded a 2.8 million dollar, multi-agency grant to combat cross-border crime and violence related to the illegal drug trade. The money was awarded as part of a proposal on behalf of the California Border Alliance Group (CBAG).
The grant is part of the ...
July 11, 2009
GREENBELT, MD—A federal jury convicted Derrick Wenzell Simmons, age 36, of Greenbelt, Maryland, today being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. The jury deliberated a little more than an hour before returning its ...
July 11, 2009
ATLANTA, GA—STEVEN H. BALLARD, 53, of McDonough, Georgia pleaded guilty today in federal district court to committing a real estate investment scam that lasted over five and a half years and defrauded over a dozen victims in Georgia, Florida and Tennessee.
United States Attorney David E. Na...
July 11, 2009
BATON ROUGE, LA—United States Attorney David R. Dugas announced that two more Louisiana residents pled guilty in federal court yesterday to fraud charges related to hurricane disaster relief programs.
CHERYL M. TAYLOR, age 48, of Greensburg, Louisiana, pled guilty yesterday to a bill of inf...
July 11, 2009
GREENBELT, MD—U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Kurt Fordham, age 39, of Ft. Washington, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme that falsely promised ...
July 11, 2009
DAVID E. HAYES, 25, of Snohomish County, Washington, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 36 months in prison and three years of supervised release for Bank Robbery in connection with a spree of robberies from December 2008, until his arrest on January 25, 2009. At sentencing U.S...
July 11, 2009
A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on July 8, 2009, KENNETH LAMONT TALTON, age 29, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to 160 months´ imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay a mandatory specia...
July 11, 2009
INDIANAPOLIS, IN—James Davis, 34, Indianapolis, Indiana was sentenced to 120 months in prison today by U.S. District Judge Larry J. McKinney following his guilty plea to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 kilograms of marijuana and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a dr...
July 11, 2009
CHICAGO—A Downers Grove man who purported to offer financial investment services to the public was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly engaging in a two-year Ponzi scheme that resulted in losses totaling approximately $3.5 million when it collapsed last month. The indictment alleges...
July 11, 2009
A 36-year-old Sauk Rapids woman was sentenced yesterday in federal court for embezzling more than $96,000 from the bank at which she was employed.
On July 8 in Minneapolis, United States District Court Judge Ann Montgomery sentenced Tamara McNaughton to nine months in prison and five years of sup...
July 11, 2009
A 21-year-old St. Paul man was sentenced today in federal court to 132 months in prison on one count of possessing with intent to distribute in excess of 50 grams of cocaine base, commonly known as crack cocaine.
Wendell Raymone Jones also was sentenced to five years of supervised release by Unit...
July 11, 2009
A 29-year-old St. Anthony man was sentenced today in federal court for committing the Aug. 7, 2008, heist of the TCF Bank in St. Anthony.
On July 9 in Minneapolis, United States District Court Judge Joan Ericksen sentenced Mark Allen Myhre, Jr., to 30 months in prison and three years of supervise...
July 11, 2009
LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TRENT YOUNG, 41, a New York City police officer, pled guilty yesterday afternoon before United States District Judge KENNETH M. KARAS in federal court in White Plains, New York, to transporting thr...
July 11, 2009
United States Attorney Julia C. Dudley announced today that three defendants charged as a result of "Operation Hook and Haul," a multi-jurisdictional investigation of property crimes in Virginia and Tennessee, have pleaded guilty to numerous charges arising from that investigation. Bobby Allen House...
July 11, 2009
Andrew T. Baxter, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announces that ANDREW WYMES, a/k/a Drip, age 29, Utica, New York, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court in Syracuse to charges relating to his role as a leader of a Utica-based drug trafficking gang.
As part of his...
July 11, 2009
PENSACOLA, FL—On June 23, 2009, James Freeman of Santa Rosa Beach, Fla., was ordered to pay restitution to a victim of child pornography whose images he possessed. Freeman was previously sentenced to life in prison for his activity in a global child pornography trafficking enterprise. Today,...
July 11, 2009
WASHINGTON—Loretta King, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Jane W. Duke, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Thomas J. Browne, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the FBI, announced today that Everett Cooney waived indic...
July 11, 2009
LUBBOCK, TX—U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings sentenced Danny Randell Lott, 46, of Abilene, Texas, to 108 months in prison, following Lott´s guilty plea in April to one count of interstate receipt of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern Distr...
July 11, 2009
LUBBOCK, TX—Twenty-eight defendants, including sheriff deputies and members of a motorcycle gang that is a support club of the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang (OMG), are charged in a 110-count federal indictment, returned earlier this week in Lubbock, Texas, for allegedly operating a major met...
July 11, 2009
SAN JUAN, PR—Yesterday, a grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an eight-count indictment charging 12 individuals with conspiracy to commit a carjacking that resulted in death and conspiracy to violate civil rights. The events, which occurred from about April 2008 until May 2008, ...
July 11, 2009
LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today that ROSS H. MANDELL, STEPHEN SHEA, ADAM HARRINGTON, a/k/a "Adam Rukdes...
July 11, 2009
ATLANTA, GA—VICTOR ABILES GOMEZ, 20, OMAR MENDOZA-VILLEGAS, 19, and GERARDO SOLORIO REYES, a/k/a "Gera," 23, all illegal immigrants from Mexico, have been sentenced to federal prison on hostage-taking and related charges, arising from the week-long kidnapping and abuse of a drug dealer.
Uni...
Los Angeles:Largest Gang Case in U.S. History with Nearly 200 Defendants Named in Federal Indictment
July 11, 2009
In the nation's largest-ever gang investigation and prosecution, a law enforcement task force this morning arrested an additional 11 defendants named in federal charges that are linked to the Hawaiian Gardens gang that was previously the subject of a sweeping racketeering indictment. The 11 defendan...
July 11, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY – Fourteen individuals are charged in three federal indictments -- two returned Wednesday and one returned in June -- with violations of federal drug laws in connection with the alleged distribution of cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine in Utah. The indictments follow a significant...
July 11, 2009
LAS VEGAS—Following a seven-week federal jury trial, five members of the Aryan Warriors prison/street gang were found guilty today of conspiracy to engage in a racketeering organization (RICO) or conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, announced Gregory A. Brower, United States Attorney for ...
July 11, 2009
ST. LOUIS—Officers from multiple federal and state law enforcement agencies arrested five Missouri men and seized more than 150 pit bull terriers in an early morning raid on several locations involved in dog fighting ventures, Acting U.S. Attorney Michael W. Reap announced today.
The U.S. A...
July 11, 2009
KANSAS CITY, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Bucyrus, Kan., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to her role in a wire fraud conspiracy related to a scheme between two women who hired a man to physically and sexu...
July 11, 2009
SAN DIEGO—U.S. Attorney Karen P. Hewitt announced today the unsealing of a 25-count indictment charging six individuals with corruption and fraud charges related to defense contracting at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), a government organization based in San Diego that is res...
July 11, 2009
Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was joined today by Jody P. Weis, Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and Tom Dart, Cook County Sheriff, in announcing the arrest of two southern Indiana residents in a murde...
July 10, 2009
Sonoma - Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced this week that Kim Louise Lemoine, 36, who passed "bogus" state government checks totaling $308,000, was sentenced today to five years in prison on charges of identity theft, forgery and grand theft.
Two of Lemoine's associates are in custo...
July 10, 2009
TYLER, TX—U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that two East Texans have pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas.
JOSE MEJIA, JR., 24, of Gilmer, Texas, and PEGGY ANN HELM, 49, of Tyler, Texas, both pleaded guilty to being involved in a...
July 10, 2009
ANTHONY JUAN WALKER, age 27, a resident of Tarrytown, New York, pled guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier to federal financial aid fraud, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten.
According to court documents, WALKER submitted a fraudulent college transcript from Co...
July 10, 2009
Martin C. Carlson, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a 32-year old Dallas resident was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge William J. Nealon to serve 151 months in federal prison for receiving child pornography.
Carlson stated that Stephen Mik...
July 10, 2009
TUCSON, AZ— Aurora Duron, 50, of Tucson, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge John M. Roll to 18 months in federal prison for her role in a fraud scheme against the Otis Elevator Company. Upon her release, Duron will be on 36 months of supervised release which includes a requir...
July 10, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTOPHER RAMOS, 30, of Hartford, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 188 months of imprisonment, followed by six years of supervised release. On October ...
July 10, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KEVIN DAVIS, 38, of Putnam, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to one count of possession of child pornography.
According to documents filed with the ...
July 10, 2009
TYLER, TX—U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that this morning a combined task force of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies arrested eight individuals charged with involvement in an interstate dogfighting ring.
On July 8, 2009, agents and officers executed a federal a...
July 10, 2009
United States Attorney Marty J. Jackley announced that a woman charged with involuntary manslaughter was sentenced on July 6, 2009, by US District Court Chief Judge Karen E. Schreier. Jolene Chief Bear, age 20, of Wanblee, was sentenced to thirty-seven months' imprisonment, three years´ superv...
July 10, 2009
Hammond, IN—The U.S. Attorney´s Office for the Northern District of Indiana announced that a three-count indictment was returned against Ashton Lundeby for his role in Internet bomb and related threats directed to Purdue University, Indiana University/Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Ind...
July 10, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—This morning, DARREN TODD BLACK, 43, of Moore, pled guilty to a felony count of criminal copyright infringement of motion picture DVDs, announced John C. Richter, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
Black was charged on June 9, 2009, with infringin...
July 10, 2009
Federal and state authorities this morning arrested 20 defendants accused of being part of ring that defrauded Medi-Cal out of nearly $4.6 million by using unlicensed individuals to provide in-home care to scores of disabled patients, many of them children with cerebral palsy or developmental disabi...
July 10, 2009
WASHINGTON—A 35-year-old Minneapolis man was sentenced today in federal court on one count of conspiring to provide material support and resources to al Qaeda.
David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and Frank J. Magill, U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota anno...
July 10, 2009
COLUMBUS, OH—Ian Kimmel, 31, of Dublin pleaded guilty in United States District Court here to one count of possession of child pornography for having between 150 and 300 images on his personal computer depicting children under the age of 18 engaged in sexually explicit conduct. He faces a poss...
July 10, 2009
WASHINGTON—An individual pleaded guilty today in federal court in Detroit for his role in creating and marketing software designed and used to send bulk commercial e-mails, known as "spam," in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal D...
July 10, 2009
SAN JOSE, CA—Froilan Alix Roldan, of Milpitas, Calif., pleaded guilty today to three counts of armed bank robbery, and to brandishing a firearm during the commission of one of those robberies, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced. As part of the plea agreement, Roldan and the...
July 10, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Angelica Sagote was sentenced to 46 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for aiding in the armed bank robbery of the Pacific Postal Credit Union in San Francisco, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced.
Sagote, 21, was sentenced ...
July 10, 2009
FORT MYERS, FL—U.S. Attorney A. Brian Albritton announces that U.S. District Judge John E. Steele today sentenced James Stoebe (age 70, of Bonita Springs) to five years in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release for possessing child pornography. The court also ordered Stoebe to for...
July 10, 2009
CAMDEN—A Rahway man pleaded guilty today to federal bank robbery charges, admitting he committed 12 bank robberies throughout New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr., announced.
Robert Arndt, 39, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Joseph E. Irenas to a three-count Inform...
July 10, 2009
KANSAS CITY, KS—Abelino Rivera-Ortiz, 24, Kansas City, Mo., has been sentenced to 78 months in federal prison for drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Lanny Welch said today.
In February, Rivera-Ortiz pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute,...
July 10, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—Yesterday, KENNETH LEON HATCHETT, 51, of Fort Supply, Oklahoma, was sentenced by United States District Judge Stephen P. Friot to serve 63 months in federal prison for robbing the Central National Bank of Alva with a knife on February 25, 2009, announced John C. Richter, Unit...
July 10, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—Yesterday, MARCUS