News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Kyetia M. Hines, 36, of Belleville, Illinois, has been sentenced to two years in prison on her.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Dale Clayton Gaver III, 31, to a 60-month term of imprisonment today. Gaver, of Omaha, pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine and Marijuana. After completion of his prison term, Gaver will begin a four-year term of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chairman and ranking member of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Chris Coons (D-Dela.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The East Coast and Massachusetts leadership of the Almighty Latin Kings and Queen Nation (Latin Kings), including more than 60 members and associates, face federal charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jaclyn Stahl (619) 546-8456.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: A trade agreement between the U.S., Mexico and Canada is likely to pass Congress with little problem if political leaders pursue it, agricultural leaders say.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Harry Jim, Jr., 36, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Fruitland, N.M., was sentenced on Dec. 3, 2019, in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 36 months of imprisonment for his conviction on an assault resulting in serious bodily injury charge. Jim will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Dale Clayton Gaver III, 31, to a 60-month term of imprisonment today. Gaver, of Omaha, pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine and Marijuana. After completion of his prison term, Gaver will begin a four-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Zion Hazel, 22, of St. Croix, pled guilty on December 4, 2019, in District Court to one count of Conspiracy to Possess Cocaine with Intent to Distribute, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that SUZANNE C. MAY, age 61, of Mandeville, pled guilty on Dec. 3, 2019 to conspiracy to alter or falsify records in connection with a federal investigation, namely, a Medicare audit of a hospice facility located in New Orleans, identified in court documents as Company 1.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is reducing fire restrictions to Stage 1 on December 6, for all BLM-managed public lands within the California Desert District, due to the recent rains, snow, and milder temperatures, all resulting in reduced fire danger. Reductions will affect Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Mono, and San Diego counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Donald Eugene Phillips, 37, of Chugiak, was sentenced today by Sr. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline, to serve nine months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for failing to register as a sex offender. In July 2019, Phillips was charged with one count of failure to register, and he subsequently pleaded guilty without a plea agreement.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. - After almost 45 years of service with the National Park Service, Vidal Dávila, Superintendent at Wind Cave National Park, will retire on December 31. Vidal has been the superintendent at the park since Oct. 1, 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Joseph P. Gray, Jr. was sentenced to 40 years in prison for leading a wide-ranging conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl, fentanyl analogues, crack cocaine, and other drugs, as well as firearms offenses.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: ROYAL PALM BEACH, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Garabar Inc. - based in Lake Worth, Florida - for exposing employees to safety hazards at a worksite in Royal Palm Beach, Florida. The roofing contractor faces $64,974 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former Brockton man was indicted today by a federal jury in Boston on sex trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tyler Taylor, 28, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to serve 180 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-A Jacksonville man was sentenced today on one count of production of child pornography. United States District Court Judge James M. Moody sentenced Robert Franke III, 41, to 30 years in federal prison. Cody Hiland, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Little Rock Field Office, announced today’s sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General William P. Barr and law enforcement partners today announced a concentrated effort across the country and around the world to halt money mule activity. Money mules assist fraud schemes by receiving money from victims, many of them elderly, and forwarding proceeds to foreign-based...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: MIAMI, FL - Willie Dishon Matthew Obadiah, 32, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom to 235 months in prison today for sex trafficking a minor.
