News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced today that Matthew Marre, age 30, of Johnstown, Colorado was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 15 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release for fraudulently obtaining confidential phone records. The defendant appeared at the hearing in custody and was remanded at the hearing’s conclusion. The FBI joined in today’s announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. De Palma, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, FBI’s Miami Field Office announced that Evelio Suarez, a Hialeah check casher, was sentenced to prison today for laundering over $100 million in proceeds of healthcare, mortgage and identity theft tax refund fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: More than 200 law enforcement officers died by suicide in 2019. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline may be reached at 1-800-273-8255 and provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress. We are HERE for law enforcement, HELP is a phone call away, and above all there is always HOPE.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court, before Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, twelve men and one woman were sentenced for their roles in selling heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, and guns to undercover agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF") in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Damon Bristol Hardy, of Versailles, Kentucky, was sentenced on Friday to 190 months in federal prison, by Chief United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Gary Peters (D-MI) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation called the “Terrorism Reporting and Classifying (TRAC) Act of 2019," to better track domestic terrorism data and require that agencies provide that information to Congress and the public.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: The National Park Service is seeking public comment on several changes proposed for the fee program at Indiana Dunes National Park. These changes include expanding the reservation system at Dunewood Campground and adding new fees for group camping and some special events and programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA: Two drug traffickers connected with a Mexican cartel that supplied a south Georgia methamphetamine conspiracy have been sentenced to federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced today that Sung W. Sohn, 50, of Burford, Georgia was sentenced to 12 months’ and one day imprisonment, and ordered to pay $224,000 in restitution by Chief United States District Judge Juan R. Sánchez for the interstate transportation of stolen property related to a scheme he perpetrated to steal and ship hundreds of office printers by misusing a product rewards program.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Gary C. Peters (D-Mich.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced legislation, the “Terrorism Reporting and Classifying (TRAC) Act of 2019," Thursday to better track domestic terrorism data and require that agencies provide that information to Congress and the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD - Two Freeport men were sentenced today in federal court in Rockford on drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for distributing crack cocaine. Austin Wilkerson, 41, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to three years of probation. In 2018, Wilkerson pleaded guilty to three counts of distributing cocaine base, also known as crack cocaine, on the Veterans Affairs Medical Center campus in Bedford.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Shawn Tyson was found guilty yesterday of being a felon in possession of ammunition and of mailing firearms after a two-day jury trial in District Court, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. After jury selection earlier in the week, Natasha France, Tyson’s sister...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: A 61-year-old resident of Coleman, Michigan, Ronald Arthur Polk, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for possessing and accessing with intent to view child pornography involving prepubescent minors or minors under the age of 12, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced two unrelated sentencings under the Project Safe Childhood initiative. Both defendants were sentenced earlier this week in United States District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: RIVERHEAD, N.Y. - DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini today announced the results of an almost two-year-long investigation that resulted in one of the largest takedowns of MS-13 gang members and associates in U.S. history.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Terrell B. Sullivan, 53, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced on Dec. 19, 2019, to 21 years and 10 months (262 months) in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture. There is no parole in the federal system. Sullivan will serve five years on supervised release after the prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA: A former correctional officer at a privately-operated federal prison could spend up to 15 years behind bars after admitting accepting bribes from an inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Vadim Humenyuk pleaded guilty to operating a commercial cargo ship while intoxicated, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and U.S. Coast Guard Captain of the Port Marie Byrd. The plea was accepted by U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas S. Hixon.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: The site-specific EA analyzes potential impacts that could result from a Western Oil Exploration Company proposal to drill two exploration oil wells on a valid existing lease on public lands in Newark Valley, about 40 miles west of Ely, Nev.
