News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Defendant Committed Federal Crime by Possessing a Firearm After a Misdemeanor Crime of Domestic Violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Reward Increases for Man Wanted for Bank Robberies and Carjackings.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Harrisonburg, VIRGINIA - A Winchester man, who in January 2019 committed an armed robbery at Martin’s Food in Winchester, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Harrisonburg to 138 months in prison after previously pleading guilty to a pair of related federal charges. United States Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced Troy Fairbanks, age 56, of Rapid City, South Dakota, appeared before Magistrate Judge Daneta Wollmann on December 6, 2019, and pleaded guilty to an Indictment that charged him with Conspiracy to Commit Wildlife Trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Thursday, December 5, 2019, Cyrus Phyfier, a 51-year-old resident of Montgomery, was sentenced to 360 months in prison for multiple drug and firearm related charges, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., ATF Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson, DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris, Secretary of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Hal Taylor, and Montgomery Police Chief Ernest Finley.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Mississippi man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for sexually assaulting a minor during a cruise from Boston to Bermuda.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: STANTON, Iowa, Dec. 12, 2019 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the availability of a second round of $550 million in United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Reconnect Pilot Program funding appropriated by Congress. The application window for this round of funding is...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - Three men have been convicted for transporting and harboring illegal aliens in locked and boarded-up trailers in Houston, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The U.S. Attorneys for the districts of Kansas and Western Missouri hosted a joint press conference Wednesday to announce a new Kansas City-area task force targeting drug traffickers and violent criminals on both sides of the Missouri river.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging 11 individuals with federal drug trafficking offenses. Ahmad Rashad Weston, a/k/a “Blood," (42, St. Petersburg); Charleston Shellie Long, a/k/a “Shellie," (38, St. Petersburg); Shyron Deonta Givens, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced today that Justice Towan Roundtree, 27, of West Columbia, was sentenced to 77 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Senior United States District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie of Columbia imposed the sentence. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kevin Connell, 27, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to bank robbery. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) announced the grand prize winner and runner-up...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced today that Justice Towan Roundtree, 27, of West Columbia, was sentenced to 77 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Senior United States District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie of Columbia imposed the sentence. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Jeremie Markell Torrey, 29, of Clinton, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Thomas S. Lee to 24 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Torrey was also ordered to pay a $1500.00 fine.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
Release: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is now offering the use of “blended lanes" at all seven airports in West Virginia. Blended lanes provides TSA Pre✓® screening to confirmed TSA Pre✓® individuals and their accessible property at smaller airports that do not have a dedicated TSA Pre✓® checkpoint. At the nation’s larger airports, blended lanes are utilized during off-peak hours when TSA Pre✓® passenger volume is too low for dedicated TSA Pre✓® lanes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Seven residents of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD - A South Beloit man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly to charges of producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that Richard Bernard Grundy, III, 30, Indianapolis, was sentenced today in federal court, by U.S. District Chief Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson, to life in federal prison. Grundy was convicted of drug-trafficking and money laundering following a three-week jury trial in August of 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Matthew Johnson, 28, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, was sentenced to serve 25 years in prison by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
