News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Nicole Johnson to 24 months in federal prison for aiding and assisting in the filing of a false tax return. Johnson had pleaded guilty on Aug. 28, 2019.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) announced the Committee will hold a hearing titled “The Boeing 737 MAX: Examining the Federal Aviation Administration’s Oversight of the Aircraft’s Certification."
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: Adams Possessed a Firearm after having prior Misdemeanor Domestic Violence Convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Bob Ibenne Ugwa, 50, a Portland resident, was sentenced today to 33 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for making repeated threatening and harassing telephone calls to seven individuals over an eight-year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit alleging that the City of Hesperia and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department discriminated against African American and Latino renters in violation of the Fair Housing Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 41-year-old Corpus Christi man has been sent to federal prison following his conviction of producing child pornography, announced U.S. Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: Jason Gatlin, 42, of Miami, was sentenced today to life in prison by U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith, after having been convicted by a trial jury of sex trafficking a minor, producing child pornography and witness tampering (Case No. 19cr20163).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joshua Vandegrift, 33, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of attempted receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 13 years in prison by U.S. District Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Lee’s Summit, Missouri, man who illegally purchased 15 firearms pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing firearms and to making a false statement on a federal form in order to purchase those firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: Sulphur, Okla.- Chickasaw National Recreation Area staff and volunteers are counting down the days to the Historic Candlelight Tour on December 6th and 7th. Tour participants will experience park history as a series of skits depicting important people and moments in the history of the park are dramatized along the paths of Flower Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 32-year-old man now faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty to transporting aliens resulting in death, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: KINGMAN, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Kingman Field Office, in cooperation with the Pine Lake Fire Department, Mohave County Parks Department and Mohave County Department of Risk and Emergency Management, will conduct prescribed burning near the community of Pine Lake as well as inside Hualapai Mountain Park, starting in early December and continuing through early February, as weather and fuel conditions allow.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that JOSHUA AARON DAVIS, 40, of Fayetteville, NC, was sentenced by United States District Judge James C. Dever, III. Co-defendant CORNELIUS THOMAS was sentenced by Judge Dever on October 9, 2019. THOMAS was sentenced to 132 months imprisonment and five years of supervised release. DAVIS was sentenced to 240 months of imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - A Richland, Georgia convicted felon entered a guilty plea in federal court for possessing a stolen weapon while on probation, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Michael R. Stephens, 27, from Richland, Georgia pleaded guilty to one...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: HOUGHTON, MICH-- The National Park Service (NPS) in collaboration with the State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) concluded summer predation monitoring by the wolves introduced to the Isle Royale ecosystem in the fall of 2018 and winter of 2019. This marks...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Danville, Kentucky, man, Lamar M. Ford, 32, was sentenced to 282 months in federal prison on Monday, by Chief U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves, for trafficking 40 grams or more of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Nov. 26, 2019, U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Márquez sentenced Mona Rodriguez, 37, of Tucson, to 30 months in prison. Rodriguez had previously pleaded guilty to Wire Fraud. The court also ordered Ms. Rodriguez to pay $171,631 in restitution for the losses sustained by the victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shameris Washington, a/k/a GB, 22, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to racketeering conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
