Las Vegas Man Indicted For Defrauding 39 Persons In Investment Fraud Scheme
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – A man who convinced persons to invest money with him by falsely representing himself to be a successful securities trader and investor, was indicted by the federal grand jury today...
View ArticleSt. Croix Man Sentenced For Manufacturing Marijuana
St. Croix, USVI –Senior District Court Judge Raymond Finch sentenced today Michael Velez, 36, to three years of probation, six months of electronic monitoring, and a $500 fine on one count of...
View ArticleRapides Parish man pleads guilty to sending obscene images to a minor
LAFAYETTE, La. – United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that an Alexandria man pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempting to send obscene material to a minor.William Ware, 38, of Alexandria,...
View ArticleSentencings for April 7 - April 12, 2016
Denise Renee Nelson-Marchetti, 46, of Lander, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on April 12, 2016, for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine....
View ArticleManhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Civil Forfeiture Complaint To Recover...
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of...
View ArticleBoston Mafia Associate Sentenced for Idaho Gun Charge
BOISE – Enrico M. Ponzo, a/k/a Jay Shaw, a longtime fugitive from Boston, Massachusetts, who posed as a rancher while living on the run in Marsing, Idaho, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison...
View ArticleIndictment Charges Philadelphia Man In Identity Theft And Credit Card Scheme
PHILADELPHIA - Carl Pierre-Charles, 27, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was charged today by indictment with conspiracy, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States...
View ArticleNampa Man Sentenced for Possession of Meth for Distribution and Unlawful...
BOISE – Indalecio Cuevas-Figueroa, 34, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 78 months in prison for possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute and...
View ArticleFormer Sheriff’s Department Employee Evades Taxes on Money Earned Selling...
Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew J. Galvin (619) 546-9721NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY– April 14, 2016SAN DIEGO – Former San Diego Sheriff’s Department employee Francisco Terriquez pleaded guilty today to tax...
View ArticleHundreds of Counterfeit Oxycodone Tablets Seized at Port of Entry Contained...
Assistant U. S. Attorney Orlando Gutierrez (619) 546-6958 NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY– April 14, 2016SAN DIEGO – A suspected smuggler’s recent attempt to bring hundreds of counterfeit oxycodone pills...
View ArticleSacramento Man Pleads Guilty to Manufacturing Guns, Dealing in Firearms, and...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Daniel Albert Crowninshield, 53, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to unlawfully manufacturing and dealing in firearms and possession of an unregistered machinegun, United States...
View ArticleClear Lake Felon and Drug User Sentenced to Prison
A man who accidentally shot his girlfriend was sentenced yesterday to more than five years in federal prison.Norris O’Dell Hughes, age 30, from Clear Lake, Iowa, received the prison term after a...
View ArticleGeorgia DOT Foreman Pleads Guilty to Allowing Illegal Dumping at Atlanta Sites
George H. Bell, a former Georgia Department of Transportation maintenance foreman, entered a guilty plea in federal court to accepting bribe payments in exchange for allowing more than 38,000 cubic...
View ArticleIRS Employees Arrested for Fraudulent Tax Returns, Two Others Charged for Tax...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — This week, prior to the annual tax return filing deadline, four individuals, including two current IRS employees, were charged in separate cases with federal tax crime, United...
View ArticleFour Charged with Distributing Heroin in Dubuque
Four men have been charged with distributing heroin in Dubuque in 2016. The charges are contained in four Complaints unsealed yesterday in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids. The Complaints...
View ArticleRoseville Podiatrist Sentenced to 3 Years in Federal Prison for Health Care...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Neil Van Dyck, 64, of Roseville, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine for committing healthcare...
View ArticleWarner Chilcott Sentenced to Pay $125 Million for Health Care Fraud Scheme
BOSTON – Pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston to pay $125 million to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from the illegal promotion of...
View ArticleFormer U.S. Postal Service Employee Sentenced to Probation for Conviction on...
ALBUQUERQUE – Phillip Duran, 33, of Las Vegas, N.M., pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to an opening and destruction of mail misdemeanor charge. After entering his guilty plea, Duran was...
View ArticleFarmington Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Heroin Trafficking Charges
ALBUQUERQUE – Allen Goosen, 30, of Farmington, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to heroin trafficking charges. The guilty plea was entered without the benefit of a...
View ArticleSanta Barbara County Man Named in Federal Case Alleging Production of Child...
LOS ANGELES– A man who resided in Carpinteria has pleaded not guilty after being named in a federal grand jury indictment that charges him with producing, receiving, distributing and...
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