Union City, New Jersey, Inspector Sentenced to 20 Months in Prison for...
NEWARK, N.J. – An inspector at the Union City Community Development Agency (UCCDA) was sentenced today to 20 months in prison for conspiring with contractors to rig the selection process for home...
View ArticleGreene County Man Charged with Unlawfully Possessing a Rifle
ALBANY, NEW YORK – Robert Twiss, age 58, of Earlton, New York, was charged yesterday with being a felon in unlawful possession of a firearm. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Richard S....
View ArticleSan Angelo Man Who Used His Residence as a Multi-Pound Methamphetamine Stash...
LUBBOCK, Texas — Benny T. Martinez, 37, of San Angelo, Texas, made his initial appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge E. Scott Frost on a complaint, unsealed today, charging possession with...
View ArticleSecond Individual Pleads Guilty to Participating in Sophisticated...
A West Palm Beach, Florida, resident pleaded guilty today to multiple criminal charges in connection with a sophisticated global cell phone fraud scheme that involved compromising cellphone customers’...
View ArticleKissimmee Resident Sentenced to More than 17 Years for Wire Fraud
Yesterday, a Kissimmee, Florida resident was sentenced to more than seventeen years in prison, after having been convicted at trial of wire fraud.Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the...
View ArticleKnoxville Couple Sentenced for Tax Fraud and Money Laundering
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Bertha Del Pilar Vargas, 48, and her husband, Martin Ayala, 45, both of Knoxville, Tenn., were sentenced on Oct. 26, 2016, by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District...
View ArticleMaryland Man Admits Stealing Works Of Art And Selling Them In Southern New...
CAMDEN, N.J. - A Rock Hall, Maryland, man today admitted stealing at least 40 pieces of art and bringing them to New Jersey to sell them, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.William C. Reed III,...
View ArticleColumbia Man Pleads to Sex Trafficking of Under Age Females
Contact Person: Matt Austin (843) 727-4381Charleston, South Carolina–----- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Da-Shun Curry a/k/a “Dae Dae,” age 23, of Columbia, pleaded...
View ArticleFormer CEO of Hollywood Payroll Company Convicted for Tax Fraud Conspiracy
RIVERSIDE, California– The former CEO of Axium International, Inc., a leading Hollywood payroll services company until its 2008 collapse, was convicted late yesterday afternoon of tax...
View ArticleBuffalo Man Sentenced For Stealing Funds Intended For Buffalo Schools
CONTACT: Barbara Burns PHONE: (716) 843-5817 FAX: (716) 551-3051BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Hassan El Saddique, 36, of Atlanta, GA,...
View ArticleLaw Enforcement Arrests Three Lubbock Residents on Fentanyl-Related Charges
LUBBOCK, Texas – Following a law enforcement operation this morning, led by officers with the Lubbock Police Department and special agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), three Lubbock,...
View ArticleTwenty-Five Indicted Federally In And Around Sampson County For Drug And...
RALEIGH– The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announces a 49-count criminal indictment for Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances, Continuing Criminal...
View ArticleFormer Owners Of Money Transmitter Business Sentenced For Conspiring To...
SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that the former owners of a money transmitter service business located in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania,...
View ArticleLancaster County Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Federal Prison For Hacking...
HARRISBURG – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Lancaster County man was sentenced yesterday on felony computer hacking charges related...
View ArticleToledo mother and son charged for Internet-based fraud, sending money to Nigeria
A mother and son from Toledo were charged for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud people out of tens of thousands of dollars and then launder the stolen money, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney...
View ArticleTuna Vessel Operator Convicted of Federal Offenses For Oil Discharges in...
WASHINGTON – An American tuna fishing company that regularly unloaded its catch in American Samoa, was convicted and sentenced today for discharging oil into the South Pacific and for...
View ArticleLewisburg Man Charged With Sexual Exploitation Of A Minor
WILLIAMSPORT – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Williamsport returned an indictment charging Tony A. Vonneida,...
View ArticleIranian National Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Illegally Export Products...
WASHINGTON—Mansour Moghtaderi Zadeh, 56, an Iranian national, pled guilty today to taking part in a conspiracy involving the purchase and shipment of various products, including aviation...
View ArticleFederal Jury Convicts Member Of An Orlando-Area Heroin Trafficking Organization
Orlando, Florida – United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Zuleyka Jeanette Colon-Rivera (25, Orlando) guilty of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the...
View ArticleTwenty-Four Defendants Facing Federal Drug Charges for Transporting Heroin...
CHICAGO — Federal charges unsealed today accused 24 individuals of various drug offenses for allegedly using Amtrak trains to transport heroin and cocaine to Chicago from California.One of the...
View Article