News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Ariel Nicole Walker, age 31 of Denver, Colorado was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 180 months (15 years) in federal prison for distribution of heroin resulting in death. Following her prison sentence...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Salem Police Department Lt. Treven Upkes Graduates FBI National Academy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: A Tulsa man was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court for his involvement in methamphetamine trafficking and money laundering operations at Casa Herrera, a local money remitter business, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II today sentenced Twon Deshay Kinsler (28, Ocala) to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The court also ordered Kinsler to forfeit two handguns and ammunition used during the offense. Kinsler had pleaded on Oct. 2, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Dec. 12, 2019, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against Sameer Bani, charging him with seven counts, including: smuggling, receipt in interstate commerce and proffered delivery of misbranded articles, possession with intent to distibute...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was arrested yesterday and charged with distributing fentanyl and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II today sentenced Twon Deshay Kinsler (28, Ocala) to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The court also ordered Kinsler to forfeit two handguns and ammunition used during the offense. Kinsler had pleaded on Oct. 2, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced GARRY “RATCHET" HINES, age 25, of New Hanover County to 276 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. He also sentenced SAVON HARDAWAY, 23, of New Hanover County to 151 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District, announced that John Miller Ragland (Age 72), who previously resided in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, was sentenced in federal court to six months in prison, and ordered to pay $1.4 million in restitution to the IRS. Ragland previously had pleaded guilty to tax evasion, in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7201.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, Denver Police Department, and Aurora Police Departments Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY-17) released the following statement after President Trump signed two legislative packages that together comprise all 12 fiscal year 2020 funding bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 66-year-old Texarkana, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for bank robbery in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Two former verification pharmacists at New England Compounding Center (NECC) have been sentenced in federal court in Boston for violating the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - The President has issued an Executive Order excusing Federal employees from duty for the scheduled workday of Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. Therefore, all Bureau of Land Management offices and developed recreation areas will be closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and will reopen on Thursday, Dec. 26. In addition, offices and developed recreation areas will also be closed on New Year’s Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Jessica Ann Smothers (35, Fernandina Beach), a/k/a Annabella Oxendine, has pleaded guilty to disaster assistance fraud involving FEMA benefits. She faces up to 30 years in federal prison and payment of restitution to the United States in the amount of $13,838.70. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Smothers has remained in custody since her arrest on November 4, 2019.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) ongoing effort to raise the baseline of global aviation security, TSA recently signed a Joint Statement of Intent with South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) on international aviation security.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - The House Natural Resources Committee spent 2019 tackling climate change from every angle. Today, Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released his Climate Action Report detailing the work done by the Committee to combat the climate crisis, including holding 22 hearings on the topic, since taking the majority of the U.S. House of Representatives in January.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Ernesto Fuentes, M.D., has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle civil penalty claims stemming from allegations that he violated the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 and its regulations, announced United States Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell Coleman, surrounded by federal and local law enforcement partners, announced more than 100 felony offenders possessing firearms have been charged so-far in 2019 as part of the ongoing Project Guardian effort to fight back against the violent crime plaguing Metro Louisville.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for conspiring to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin, which led to the overdose death of at least one individual.
