New Orleans Man Pleads Guilty to Ethylone Drug Charge
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DAI VAN TRAN, age 33, a resident of New Orleans, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information charging him with attempted possession with intent...
View ArticleEmployment Staffing Agency Owner Sentenced to 24 Months in Federal Prison for...
DALLAS— A local man who admitted failing to pay over payroll taxes for tax years 2008 through 2012 was sentenced today, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.Luis...
View ArticleFormer Orleans Parish School Board Member Ira Thomas Sentenced
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that IRA THOMAS, 58, of New Orleans, a former member of the Orleans Parish School Board (“OPSB”), was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to...
View ArticleYMM Gang Members Sentenced to 21-Plus Years in Prison for Drug and Firearms...
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ALFRED COBBINS, age 23, and SHAWN GRACIN, age 22, both residents of New Orleans, were sentenced today for their participation in a drug conspiracy and a...
View ArticleTwo Columbian Nationals Arrested for Attempting to Sell Fraudulent $1 Billion...
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ALMA DE JESUS MOJICA HERRERA, age 51, and LEONARDO SERRATO POLANIA, age 41, both residents of Bogota, Columbia, were arrested and charged in a federal...
View ArticleTeamsters Indicted for Attempted Extortion of Reality Television Production...
BOSTON – Four members of Teamsters Local 25 were arrested today in connection with attempting to extort a television production company that was filming a reality show in the Boston area in spring...
View ArticleNew Orleans Man Sentenced for Violating the Federal Controlled Substances Act
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RASHAD LEWIS, age 37, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment charging him with...
View ArticleFederal Jury Convicts Man in Computer Intrusion Case
DALLAS— Following a week-long trial before U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle, a federal jury has convicted a Spring, Texas, man, who worked as an Information Technology (IT) engineer for a...
View ArticleMexican Cartel Leaders Edgar Valdez-Villarreal, a.k.a. “La Barbie,” and...
ATLANTA – Edgar Valdez-Villarreal, a.k.a. “La Barbie,” and Carlos Montemayor Gonzalez, who are charged in the Northern District of Georgia with importing drugs and money laundering, are among 13...
View ArticleTwo Defendants from Georgia Sentenced in Credit Card Fraud Scheme
BOISE –Rakeen Anderson, 32, of Atlanta, Georgia and Jean Estinville, 27, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, were sentenced today in United States District Court for their roles in a credit card scheme that...
View ArticleHarrold Man Sentenced for Domestic Assault By An Habitual Offender
Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Harrold, South Dakota, man convicted of Domestic Assault by an Habitual Offender was sentenced on September 28, 2015, by U.S. District...
View ArticleSix Members of Large-Scale Multi-State Methamphetamine Organization Sentenced...
BOISE - Jose Luis Corrales Cruz, 58, of Romona, California; Juan Navarette, 20, of Ontario, Oregon; Jorge Sandoval, 22, of Placentia, California, Marco Antonio Tinoco, 26, of Ontario, Oregon; Hernan...
View ArticleDoctor Arrested For Illegal Distribution Of More Than Ten Thousand Oxycodone...
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James A. Hunt, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”),...
View ArticleSutter County Man Sentenced to 12.5 Years in Prison for Role in $14 Million...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. sentenced Mohammad Nawaz Khan, 60, today to 12 and a half years in prison for his role in a $14 million unemployment and...
View ArticleVallejo Kidnapping Suspect Indicted in Federal Court
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against Matthew D. Muller, 38, of South Lake Tahoe, charging him with one count of kidnapping, United States Attorney Benjamin B....
View ArticleCrescent City Keepers Mentoring Program Made a Part of the President’s My...
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that the White House has brought Crescent City Keepers (“CCK”), a mentoring program launched by U. S. Attorney Polite in 2014, under the umbrella of the...
View ArticleU.S. Attorney Ortiz Hosts Roundtable to Commemorate 25th Anniversary of the...
BOSTON – U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz hosted a roundtable discussion yesterday with local disability rights activists to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act...
View ArticleLynn Tax Preparer Charged With Federal Tax Fraud
BOSTON – A Lynn tax preparer was charged yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston for filing fraudulent personal federal tax returns and attempting to obstruct the Internal Revenue Service...
View ArticleEcuadorian National Charged with Tax Refund Fraud
BOSTON – An Ecuadorian national residing in New York City was arrested and charged on Tuesday, Sept. 29th in connection with his role in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme.Ricardo E. Candelo,...
View ArticleRiver Ridge Man Charged with Fraud in Security System Contracts
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that WAYNE WILLIAMS, age 37, of River Ridge, was charged today in a two-count Bill of Information with wire fraud.According to the Bill of Information,...
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