News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: Haichao Huang Agrees To Pay More Than $800,000 in Restitution.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, NJ - U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a Brazilian national Dec. 2, 2019, wanted for homicide in his home country. Bruno Padua-Silva was escorted by ICE officers on the removal flight to Brazil.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - A federal jury has found Jonathan Bohn (35, Orlando), a/k/a “Jonah," guilty of distributing a controlled substance that resulted in death. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Feb. 18, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Federal criminal complaints were unsealed today in federal court, following the arrest of eight individuals involved in a drug trafficking organization operating in and around Union County, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - JACOB BANKS, age 29, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced on December 5, 2019 by United States District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of the Federal Gun Control Act, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are seeking records from and transcribed staff interviews with two individuals reportedly involved...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: Seattle - A 30-year-old member of the Lummi Nation was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to three years in prison and three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm and distribution of methamphetamine. AMBER DAWN MENDOZA, aka AMBER DAWN REDSTONE, aka AMBER...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Randall Swartz, 59, of Orleans, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court in Rutland to 48 months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to a charge of mail fraud. Chief Judge Geoffrey Crawford also ordered that Swartz serve three years of supervised release following completion of his prison term and pay restitution in the amount of $452,558.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: St. Louis -Joseph Reed, 21, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 110 months in prison for the crimes of sale of fentanyl, being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Reed appeared today in front of United States District Judge John A. Ross.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. sentenced Ruslan Kirilyuk, 41, of Beverly Hills, to 27 years in prison for his involvement in an international credit card fraud scheme targeting card holders nationwide, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: OAKLAND - Michael Anthony LeBoeuf was sentenced to 97 months in prison for receipt and possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) San Francisco Special Agent in Charge Tatum King. The sentence was handed down by the Hon. Phyllis J. Hamilton, U.S. District Judge.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released the following statement on the successful passage of H.R. 877, Modernizing the Pittman-Robertson Fund for Tomorrow’s Needs Act, which was agreed to by unanimous consent in Committee markup. Increasing urbanization and suburbanization...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A California man was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for supplying cocaine and other controlled substances to individuals in Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: Lawrence D. Rutledge, 57, of Belleville, Illinois, has been sentenced to five years of federal.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, unveiled a new report on skyrocketing prescription drug prices and drug shortages. At St. Joseph Mercy Oakland hospital in Pontiac, Peters joined Michiganders struggling...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Harlem man admitted on Thursday to assaulting his dating partner by strangling her, causing substantial injury, on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: It is within our grasp to provide a real win for Americans worried about the high price of prescription drugs-if Congress can get it across the finish line before the end of the year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Federal criminal complaints were unsealed today in federal court, following the arrest of eight individuals involved in a drug trafficking organization operating in and around Union County, announced U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina Andrew Murray.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Randall Swartz, 59, of Orleans, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court in Rutland to 48 months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to a charge of mail fraud. Chief Judge Geoffrey Crawford also ordered that Swartz serve three years of supervised release following completion of his prison term and pay restitution in the amount of $452,558.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A San Bernardino County man was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint alleging he made more than 10,000 harassing telephone calls this year to government offices and made death threats against a congressional staffer and an intern who answered the calls.
