News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Dumfries, Virginia, man was convicted by a federal jury today for his role in wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies as part of a nearly $3 million romance fraud scheme.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT’s) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced that the Venezuelan regime does not comply with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) safety standards under the International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) program and has been assigned a Category 2 rating.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On Dec. 2, 2019, Marcus Bryan Lee, 26, of Chinle, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 17.5 years’ imprisonment. Lee had previously pleaded guilty to second degree murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A previously convicted felon was sentenced today to 46 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $512,500 for defrauding investors of a local newspaper and unlawful possession of firearms by a previously convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that LEVI HERMAN (HERMAN), age 33, was charged in a one-count Indictment for bank robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Theft of Government Funds and Concealment of Information from the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program. The SSI program is administered by the U.S. Social Security Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced DAVID E. PIVER, age 60, a licensed attorney in Pennsylvania to $1,000, the maximum statutory fine for the violation, followed by his guilty plea to aiding and abetting fraudulent statements in an immigration proceeding.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of a superseding indictment charging David Burkes (51, Safety Harbor) with conspiring to distribute a substance that contained a mixture of fentanyl, and acetyl fentanyl, causing the death of one individual, and the serious injury to another. If convicted, Burkes faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 20 years, and up to life, in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Dumfries, Virginia, man was convicted by a federal jury today for his role in wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies as part of a nearly $3 million romance fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Forfeiture allegation of $2,900,000 dollars. SAN JUAN, P.R. - A jury found defendant Carlos Maldonado, owner of Business Planning Resources International Corporation (BPRIC), Glorimar Fashions and Tailoring, LLC, Global Business Insurance Agency Inc., and associated under the incorporation documents...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: A man arrested for two carjackings in June pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - The U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs today announced awards of more than $333 million to help communities affected by the opioid crisis. In the Western District of Wisconsin, $8,498,212 will help public safety and public health professionals combat substance abuse and respond effectively to overdoses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: More than $3.5 Million Will Support Efforts to Combat Opioid Abuse in the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-A New York City man who admitted lying to federal agents about wanting to fight for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham or “ISIS" and to conduct an attack in the United States was sentenced today to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Peter Oliver Henry, 63, of New Orleans, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to possession with intent to distribute heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Mississippi Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge William Jung today sentenced Mark Edward Allen (61, St. Petersburg) to five years in federal prison for attempting to destroy United States government property with an improvised explosive device. Allen was arrested on June 1, 2019. He had pleaded guilty on Sept. 23, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Kelly Thornton (619) 546-9726. NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Dec. 13, 2019. SAN DIEGO - The Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs today announced awards of more than $333 million to help communities affected by the opioid crisis, including $750,000 to Alpine-based Southern Indian Health Council...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District, Stillwater Field Office has concluded the Desatoya Mountain HMA wild horse gather located approximately 77 miles east of Fallon, Nevada. The BLM gathered 456 excess wild horses from public and private lands. Of those gathered 431 were removed, and 15 stallions and 10 mares were released back to the range. Approximately 127 wild horses remain in the area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Seattle - The leader of a large drug trafficking organization, moving drugs from southern California to Washington and Illinois, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 15 years in prison and 5 years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. CHARLES ROLAND CHEATHAM...
