Two men plead guilty to federal heroin crimes
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Two men pleaded guilty today to federal drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Earnest Moore, 40, of Ohio, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin. In...
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ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Ismael Nevarez, Jr. of the Phoenix Field Office of IRS Criminal Investigation, Chief Gorden E. Eden, Jr., of the Albuquerque...
View ArticleHotel Developer Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Exploiting U.S. Visa...
CHICAGO — A Chicago hotel developer was sentenced today to three years in prison for exploiting a federal visa program to fraudulently raise capital from Chinese nationals who were seeking residency in...
View ArticleMan Sentenced for False Bomb Threats
TUCSON, Ariz. – Today, Octavio Acosta De La Torre, 43, of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bury to 33 months of imprisonment. De La Torre had...
View ArticleOne Albuquerque Resident Sentenced and Another Pleads Guilty to Drug...
ALBUQUERQUE – Two Albuquerque residents appeared in federal court today in connection with pending drug trafficking charges. Daniel Griego, 31, was sentenced to 24 months in prison followed by three...
View ArticleID Thieves Sentenced to Prison for Scheme Targeting Unemployment Benefits and...
A pair of identity thieves who methodically stole and used victims’ personal information to steal more than $350,000 were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle, announced U.S....
View ArticleOrlando Woman Sentenced To Federal Prison For Scheme To Evade Workers’...
Jacksonville, Florida – U.S. District Judge Henry Lee Adams, Jr. has sentenced Orquidea Quezada (48, Orlando) to 18 months in federal prison for wire fraud and for operating as an unlicensed money...
View ArticleOwner Of Durable Medical Equipment Company And Three Physicians Charged With...
SAN JUAN, P.R. - On February 13, 2017, a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a superseding indictment charging Dr. Dante A. Rodríguez-Rivera, Javier Efraín Siverio-Echevarría,...
View ArticlePlains Man Indicted On Drug And Firearms Charges
SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Francesco Leggio, age 26, of Plains, Pennsylvania, was indicted on February 21, 2017, by a...
View ArticleBeverly Hills Auctioneer Charged In Rhinoceros Horn Smuggling Conspiracy
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jeffery Wood, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources...
View ArticleSpringfield Man Pleads Guilty to Bankruptcy Fraud
Mark A. McFarland, 58, of Springfield, IL, pled guilty on February 21, 2017, to two bankruptcy fraud charges in United States District Court in East St. Louis, United States Attorney for the Southern...
View ArticleU.S. Attorney Charges Inmate Health Consultant with Lying to FBI
BIRMINGHAM – The U.S. Attorney’s Office on Tuesday charged a Vestavia Hills man with making false statements to the FBI in relation to payments from a contractor providing inmate health care at the...
View ArticleMULTIPLE LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO HOLD PRESS...
Contact Person: A. Lance Crick (843) 282-2105The press conference will be held at 4pm in the lobby of North Charleston’s City Hall, located at 2500 City Hall Lane, North Charleston, South Carolina...
View ArticleJustice Department and Sterling Heights Resolve Lawsuit Over Denial of Zoning...
The Justice Department today announced a settlement with the city of Sterling Heights, Michigan to resolve allegations that the city violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of...
View ArticleNew York Man Pleads Guilty to Heroin Charge Stemming from Overdose Death in...
Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that...
View ArticleLaveen Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Assault Resulting in Serious...
PHOENIX – On Feb. 21, 2017, James Flippen Lewis, 28, of Laveen, Ariz., and a member of the Gila River Indian Community, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake to 84 months in prison,...
View ArticleLockport Man Pleads Guilty in Methamphetamine Trafficking Conspiracy
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ALLEN GAUTREAX,age 36, of Lockport, pled guilty today to one count of conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine....
View ArticleAccountant for Non-profit Government Contractor Sentenced to Two and a Half...
BIRMINGHAM – A federal judge late Tuesday sentenced a former accountant with a Huntsville non-profit corporation that contracted with the government to place people with disabilities into government...
View ArticleNine Defendants Charged With Conspiracy To Distribute Heroin And Oxycodone In...
An indictment and two complaints were unsealed today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging nine defendants with conspiring to distribute heroin and/or...
View ArticleUnited States Sues Philadelphia Retail Food Store For Selling Improperly...
PHILADELPHIA, PA – The United States has filed a lawsuit to stop Philadelphia retail store J & B Poultry Market, Inc., and its president Johnny Wong, from selling chickens that are improperly...
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