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The owner of an Ocean County, New Jersey architectural and engineering firm was sentenced to three months in prison and three months of house arrest for filing fraudulent tax returns on behalf of his firm, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court Kurt Allen Bennett, 41, of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, pled guilty before United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle to conspiring to steal and convert property belonging to the United States Government, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, and two counts of theft and conversion of government property, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 641.

Jerome Oberlton and Mahendra Patel have been arraigned for allegedly receiving kickback payments in exchange for Oberlton using his influence as chief information officer for Atlanta Public Schools to award a $780,000 computer project.

Former Wayne County Assistant County Executive Michael Demetrus Grundy, of Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud in connection with his position as executive director of HealthChoice of Michigan, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.

Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut; Susan J. Waddell, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General for New England; William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of IRS-Criminal Investigation in New England; and Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that Gary F. Anusavice, also known as “Gary Andrews,” “Gary Andrus” and “Gary Francis,” 60, of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge William I. Garfinkel in Bridgeport to health care fraud and tax evasion offenses stemming from his involvement in a $20 million Medicaid fraud scheme.

Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Joseph Kriz, 50, of Wilton, was sentenced, May 31 by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a Fairfield County mortgage fraud scheme.

U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. sentenced Anthony McIntosh, a former correctional officer at the Prince George’s County Detention Center in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, to 24 months in prison for obstruction of justice. McIntosh had entered a guilty plea on January 4, 2013, at which time he admitted that he had obstructed justice by providing false information about the circumstances surrounding the in-custody death of Ronnie White.

Brian Ray Dinning, formerly of Suffolk, Virginia, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of bank fraud.

According to the FBI’s Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, released, the nation experienced a 1.2 percent increase in the number of violent crimes and a 0.8 percent decline in the number of property crimes in 2012 when compared with data from 2011.

Federal prosecutors have charged the former commander of the West Alabama Narcotics Task Force with stealing at least $125,000 from suspected drug proceeds seized by the multi-agency task force, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein, Jr.