MEDIA ADVISORY-- New Mexico Hope Initiative to Launch Naloxone Project
ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch has designated the week of September 18, 2016, as National Heroin and Opioid Awareness Week, and U.S. Attorneys throughout the country are...
View ArticleFormer Senior Living Center Employee in Belleville Pleads Guilty to Mail...
Tarkeisha Sayles, 36, of Fairview Heights, Illinois, entered pleas of guilty to mail fraud and wire fraud, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced...
View ArticleMissouri Woman Sentenced for Sex Trafficking Conspiracy
On September 15, 2016, Robin Thompson, 25, of Park Hills, Missouri, was sentenced for her role in the sex trafficking of a minor last year, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of...
View ArticleFormer Roxse Homes Worker Sentenced for Taking Bribes
BOSTON – The former assistant property manager of Roxse Homes, a subsidized housing development in Boston, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for his role in a scheme to rent...
View ArticleMeridian Woman Pleads Guilty to Computer Fraud
Jackson, Miss – Teresa Wash, 51, of Meridian, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves, to one count of accessing a computer to defraud and obtain value, announced U. S. Attorney...
View ArticleTufts Medical Center & Local Pharmacy Chain Settle Alleged Violations of...
BOSTON – In concurrence with National Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic Awareness Week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached separate civil settlements with Tufts Medical Center and Eaton...
View ArticleConvicted Sex Offender Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison in Child Pornography...
PORTLAND, Ore. – On Monday, September 19, 2016, U.S. District Judge Marco H. Hernandez sentenced Samuel Ira Dowell to 10 years in federal prison and 15 years’ supervised release after the defendant...
View ArticleAurora Cousins Sentenced to Lengthy Prison Terms for Conspiring to Provide...
CHICAGO — A federal judge in Chicago today imposed prison sentences of 30 years and 21 years for Aurora cousins who conspired to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.U.S....
View ArticleInvestigators, Prosecutors Combat Financial Fraud
SALEM, Ore. – For the 16th consecutive year, a unique financial crimes conference is being held in Oregon. The Financial Crimes & Digital Evidence Conference brings together fraud fighters from...
View ArticleFederal Jury Finds a Serial Bank Robber Guilty of Three Counts of Bank Robbery
TULSA, Okla.—A jury in the United States District Court found Jesse Bud Leaverton, 58, guilty of three counts of Bank Robbery, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. for the Northern...
View ArticleSuspended DeKalb Doctor Pleads Guilty to Illegally Dispensing Prescription...
ROCKFORD - A suspended DeKalb, Ill. doctor pleaded guilty today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to illegally dispensing controlled substances and federal income tax...
View ArticleMethamphetamine Dealer Sentenced to Prison
EUGENE, Ore. – On Tuesday, September 20, 2016, Robert Dewane Lacey, 47, was sentenced to 49 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Michael J. McShane for possession with intent to distribute...
View ArticleUnited States Attorney Announces Heroin Intervention Program With DEA And...
Priority is to investigate and prosecute heroin dealers who face a mandatory 20 year minimum sentence for causing overdosesLOUISVILLE, Ky. – United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr., joined by...
View ArticleTwo Charlotte Bloods Gang Members Plead Guilty For the The Double-Murder Of...
CHARLOTE, N.C. – U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that Jamell Lamon Cureton, 24, and Malcolm Jarrel Hartley, 23, pleaded guilty to murder and related charges, for their respective...
View ArticleFive Indicted For Massive Fraud Perpetrated Against Starkey Laboratories
United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced a federal indictment charging JEROME RUZICKA, SCOTT NELSON, LAWRENCE MILLER, JEFFREY TAYLOR, and LAWRENCE HAGEN with conspiring to steal more than...
View ArticleMexican National Pleads Guilty to Illegal Re-Entry
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that FAUSTINO JUAREZ-CASTILLO, age 31, plead guilty today a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States...
View ArticleGeorgia Woman Pleads Guilty to Methamphetamine Charges
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that APRIL NICOLE GRIZZARD, age 32, of Atlanta, pled guilty today to two counts of a Superseding Indictment, which charged her with conspiracy to possess with...
View ArticleShriever Man Sentenced for Wire Fraud
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CLARK JAMES PELLEGRIN, JR., age 41, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one count Bill of Information charging him...
View ArticleMEDIA ADVISORY- HOPE Initiative Partners Discuss Dangers of Heroin and Opioid...
HOPE Initiative’s National Heroin and Opioid Awareness Week Event to be Held on September 22, 2016 at Freedom High SchoolALBUQUERQUE – The New Mexico Heroin and Opioid Prevention and Education (HOPE)...
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