Monroe L. Akins, 37, of Steger. (Photo: PFPD) Watch press conference below. Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Members of the Park Forest Police Department conducted a press conference this morning regarding the arrest of Monroe Akins, age 37, of Steger, the suspect in a series of groping cases that have taken place[Read More…]
Law and Order
Park Forest Police Make Arrest In Connection With Attacks On Women
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Park Forest Police Chief Clifford Butz told village board members and members of the public in attendance at this Saturday’s Rules Meeting, "after months and hundreds of detective man hours," an arrest has been made in connection with incidents of a male subject groping women in town[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Officers Shot At In Eastgate
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Two Park Forest police officers were shot at on Allegheny Street in the Eastgate neighborhood on July 30. Police released the following information on the department’s Facebook page regarding the incident: "On July 30, 2014 at approximately 11:00 P.M., Park Forest Police were dispatched to the 200[Read More…]
Black P-Stones Gang Member Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison on Racketeering Conspiracy and Firearms Charges
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 1, 2014. Marcellus Williams, aka “Math,” “P-Shooter” and “Manny,” 27, of Newport News, Virginia, was sentenced today to serve 30 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for engaging in numerous gang-related crimes as a ranking member of the Black P-Stones, including shootings of rival[Read More…]
Former Owner of Southern California Medical Supply Company Found Guilty for a 10-Year, $8.3 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 1, 2014. On July 31, 2014, a federal jury in Los Angeles found that the former owner of a durable medical equipment (DME) supply company located in Carson, California, was guilty of health care fraud charges relating a 10-year scheme in which Medicare was fraudulently billed more than[Read More…]
Grundy County Gun Dealer Indicted on Federal Charges for Allegedly Illegally Selling Firearms
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—August 1, 2014. A Grundy County gun dealer was indicted on federal firearms charges alleging that he illegally sold 11 firearms from either his store or his residence to an undercover law enforcement officer posing as a felon, as well as to a convicted felon who was cooperating with law[Read More…]
Federal Officer Charged With Witness Tampering for Allegedly Hindering Investigation of Sham Marriage
CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)—August 1, 2014. A federal law enforcement officer was indicted on witness tampering charges for allegedly attempting to thwart an investigation of a sham marriage that she arranged a decade earlier. The defendant, ENKHCHIMEG ULZIIBAYAR EDWARDS, was charged with two counts of witness tampering in a federal grand jury[Read More…]
Two Maryland Fishermen Plead Guilty to Illegal Fish Harvesting Conspiracy in the Chesepeake Bay
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 1, 2014. Michael D. Hayden, 41, and William J. Lednum, 42, both of Tilghman Island, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to violate the Lacey Act and to defraud the United States through their illegal harvesting and sale of striped bass, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General for the[Read More…]
Hewlett-Packard Company Agrees to Pay $32.5 Million for Alleged Overbilling of the U.S. Postal Service
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 1, 2014. The Justice Department announced today that Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has agreed to pay $32.5 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that HP overcharged the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) for products between October 2001 and December 2010. HP is a manufacturer and vendor of[Read More…]
Thirteen Rockford Area Residents Facing Federal Gun And/Or Drug Charges
ROCKFORD–(ENEWSPF)–July 30, 2014. Thirteen Rockford area residents are facing federal gun and/or narcotics charges, federal and local law enforcement officials announced today. The indictments stem from a year-long investigation into firearms and cocaine trafficking in the Rockford area led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the[Read More…]
