Former Bank Teller Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Embezzle Money from Local Bank
BOSTON – A former teller at Lenox National Bank pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Springfield in connection with embezzling more than $375,000 from the bank and concealing the theft with...
View ArticleSeven Brockton Residents Indicted on Fentanyl and Firearms Charges
BOSTON – Seven Brockton residents were indicted in U.S. District Court in Boston with trafficking fentanyl and with firearms-related charges. Luis DaCosta, 21, aka “Jesse” and “Slu;” Gilvan Monteiro,...
View ArticleBrevard, N.C. Man Sentenced To 17 Years In Prison On Child Pornography Charges
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced today Robert Joseph Lamb, 30, of Brevard, N.C., to 207 months in prison on child pornography charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose,...
View ArticleMarion, N.C. Man Sentenced To Prison For Passport Fraud
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – James Timothy Wilson, 66, of Marion, N.C. was sentenced today to 45 months in prison on passport fraud and aggravated identity theft charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting...
View ArticleDrug Dealer Indicted for Distribution of Fentanyl
NORFOLK, Va. – Eugene Deandre Tillery, 20, of Suffolk, was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on seven counts of distributing Fentanyl, which is a very potent pain killer used in the medical...
View ArticleCommunity Colleges Targeted in Financial Aid Fraud Scheme
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Ernest Xavier Taylor, Jr., 31, and Tracie Laverne Mixon, 34, both of Hammond, Louisiana, were indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges relating to stealing the identities of...
View ArticleVeterans Treatment Court Established For Louisville Area Veterans Charged...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr., in conjunction with U.S. District Court Judge David J. Hale, U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Colin H. Lindsay, Chief U.S. Probation...
View ArticleU.S. Attorney’s Office Hosts Mock Trial Academy for Fifth Graders from Gabe...
DALLAS— The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas’s Mock Trial Academy, conducted as part of the District’s ongoing Crime Prevention and Community Outreach component of the Justice...
View ArticleOperator Of Alleged Cybercrime Marketplace Extradited To The United States To...
On Friday, May 20, 2016, a complaint was unsealed in Brooklyn federal court charging Djevair Ametovski, a Macedonian citizen also known as “codeshop,” “sindrom,” and “sindromx,” with crimes related to...
View ArticleFormer Senior Executive From Universal Forest Products Robert Lees Found...
Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ROBERT LEES, a former senior executive of Universal Forest Products, Inc. (“UFP”) was convicted a jury...
View ArticleRide or Die Gang Member Sentenced to Life in Prison Following Convictions on...
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that SIDNEY PATTERSON, a/k/a “Duda Man” age 24,of New Orleans, was sentenced today after having previously been found guilty of violating the Racketeer...
View ArticleThree MS-13 Members Convicted In Murder Conspiracy
Greenbelt, Maryland – A federal jury today convicted Jorge Enrique Moreno-Aguilar, aka “Flaco,” and “Castigato,” age 22; Juan Alberto Ortiz-Orellana, aka “Chele” and “Furia,” age 27, both of District...
View ArticleGuatemalan National Indicted for Illegal Re-Entry
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JULIO RAYMUNDO-SANTOS, age 41, a citizen of Guatemala, was charged today in a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of...
View ArticleSuperseding Indictment Returned Charging Robbery, Murder of a Witness, and...
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GREGORY DENSON, 53, ESCRELITA CARMOUCHE, 49, and KYRA D. MORRIS-GRIFFITH, 35, all of New Orleans, were charged today in a thirteen-count Seventh...
View ArticleFerndale Man Arrested for Attempted Enticement of a Minor
A 39- year-old Ferndale, Washington resident was arrested as he approached the U.S./Canadian border this morning as he sought to travel to British Columbia to have sexual contact with a...
View ArticleSan Jose Man Convicted On Sex Tourism And Obstruction Charges
SAN FRANCISCO – A federal jury convicted Michael Lindsay of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places, attempted witness tampering,...
View ArticleAlbuquerque Man Pleads Guilty to Discharging Firearm During Robbery of...
ALBUQUERQUE – Raiff Harland Hayes, 25, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty in federal court this morning to discharging a firearm during the robbery of a commercial business. Under the terms of his...
View ArticleFort Totten, North Dakota, Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Aggravated...
FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on May 23, 2016, Jade Shilo OldRock, 42, of Fort Totten, ND, was sentenced before US District Judge Ralph R. Erickson after a federal jury found...
View ArticleInmate Charged with Plotting to Kill President
BOSTON – An inmate at Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, Mass. was charged today with threatening to kill the President of the United States.Alex Hernandez, 31, of Worcester, was charged in...
View ArticleTwo Men Sentenced To Prison for Multi-State Scheme to Obtain New Cell Phones...
BOSTON – Two men were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a fraudulent scheme to obtain and re-sell more than $330,000 in new cell phones. David Hul, 34 of North...
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