Six Tax Return Preparers Plead Guilty to Filing False Tax Returns with the...
Six additional tax return preparers pled guilty to filing false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in a scheme that claimed more than $6,663,976 in fraudulent tax refunds.Wifredo A....
View ArticleCanadian-Iranian Citizen Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To Three Years...
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that ALI REZA PARSA, a Canadian-Iranian...
View ArticleFormer Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Captain Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
EUGENE, Ore – Former Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Captain Scott Raymond Beard, 46, of Bend, Oregon, pleaded guilty today to four felony offenses related to an embezzlement scheme where he stole...
View ArticleShasta County Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Defrauding The VA By...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — John Cal Howe, II, 42, of Lakehead, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison after being convicted of 23 misdemeanor counts in a scheme to obtain thousands of dollars in...
View ArticleFormer USD Basketball Star Sentenced for Camp Pendleton Thefts
Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathleen J. O’Hara (619) 546-7945 NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY– May 23, 2016SAN DIEGO – Former University of San Diego women’s basketball star Dominique Conners, 26, was...
View ArticleTwo Solano County Women Charged With Fraud Conspiracy, Filing Fraudulent...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment on May 19, 2016, against Pamela Dawn Pierson, 50, of Vallejo, and Michelle Louise Travis, 50, of Suisun City, California. The...
View ArticleDistrict Man Sentenced to 42 Months in Prison For Robbing Bank in Southeast...
WASHINGTON – Francis Davis, 69, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for robbing a bank last year in Southeast Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D....
View ArticleTwo Mass. Men Detained in R.I. on Sex Trafficking Charges
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Kedwin Vargas, 25, and Rene A. Laureano, 30, of Roxbury, Mass., have been ordered detained in federal custody on federal criminal complaints charging them with conspiracy to...
View ArticleFormer Background Investigator for Federal Government Sentenced for Making a...
WASHINGTON – Jason A. Razo, 39, a former background investigator who did work under contract for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), was sentenced today to two months of...
View ArticleTwo Former Maverick County Officials Sentenced on Federal Bribery Charges
In Del Rio today, former Maverick County Precinct 3 Commissioner and Eagle Pass ISD teacher Jose Luis Rosales and former Maverick County Justice of the Peace and businessman Cesar Iracheta were...
View ArticleHigh-Ranking Gang Members Among Several Defendants Arrested for Dealing...
CHICAGO — Several suspects, including high-ranking members of a Chicago street gang, are facing drug or gun charges for their alleged roles in dealing narcotics and firearms on the city’s South...
View ArticlePrior Felon from Deming Pleads Guilty to Unlawful Possession of a Firearm
ALBUQUERQUE – Elias David Parra, 29, of Deming, N.M., pleaded guilty this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to violating the federal firearms laws.Parra was arrested in Oct. 2015, on a...
View ArticleMidwest HIDTA Director Presents Awards in Fargo to Law Enforcement from the...
FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on May 24, 2016, Midwest HIDTA Director Jeffrey Stamm presented a Midwest HIDTA Regional Award for ‘Outstanding Cooperative Effort’ to various...
View ArticleFormer TSA Employee Pleads Guilty to Distribution of Child Pornography
LITTLE ROCK—Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Raymond R. Parmer, Jr., announced today that...
View ArticleU.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers Arrest India National Using a...
St. Thomas, USVI – Chintamkumar Patel, 23, made his initial appearance on Friday, May 20, 2016, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller after being charged in a complaint with using a false document...
View ArticleSacramento Man Arraigned On Arson Charges Relating To Burned Sacramento Nail...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn K. Delaney arraigned Paul La, 58, of Sacramento, today on a 10-count indictment charging him with arson of a commercial structure, arson to commit a...
View ArticleHingham Woman Pleads Guilty to Mortgage Fraud
BOSTON – A Hingham woman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to defrauding mortgage companies in connection with multiple mortgages she obtained on a single residence. Denise Bruce,...
View ArticleFormer Miami-Dade Police Department Officer Convicted of Wire Fraud
Following an eight-day trial, a jury before United States District Judge Jose E. Martinez convicted Rafael Duran, a former police officer with the Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD), of one count of...
View ArticlePawtucket Man Detained on Federal Firearm Charge
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Justice Reyes, 19, of Pawtucket, was ordered detained in federal custody on Wednesday, having been indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday on a charge of possession of a firearm...
View ArticleLegal Resident from El Salvador Pleads Guilty to Federal Methamphetamine...
ALBUQUERQUE – Cecilia Pocasangre, 41, a legal permanent resident from El Salvador, pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge arising out of a...
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