News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Jay Don Gifford, age 26, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 420 months in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release on one count of Production of Child Pornography and one count of Offense by a sex Offender. The Honorable P. K. Holmes, III presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EVALDAS RIMASAUSKAS, a Lithuanian citizen, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for participating in a fraudulent business email compromise scheme that induced two U.S.-based Internet companies...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Luis A. Tobar, age 44, of Omaha, Nebraska, was found guilty on Dec. 18, 2019, following a two-day trial in federal court in Omaha for Attempted Coercion and Enticement of a Minor. The Honorable Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. scheduled Tobar’s sentencing for March 13, 2020 at 9:30 a.m. Tobar is facing a mandatory minimum of 10 years’ imprisonment and up to life imprisonment for this conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Newton, North Carolina, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Dec. 12, 2019, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Porcupine, South Dakota, woman convicted of Larceny was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PEDRO CARILLO, also known as “P," 25, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 161 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for a kidnapping and violent assault he committed with four other members of the Almighty Latin Kings Nation (“Latin Kings").
By USDA Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 19, 2019 - USDA farm programs helped producers weather a tough 2019, marked with prevented planting, delayed harvests, and unjustified foreign retaliatory tariffs. USDA’s farm program agencies - the Farm Service Agency (FSA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Risk...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Kansas man pleaded guilty today to murdering his longtime girlfriend during a cruise from Florida to the Bahamas in January 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: JEROME, Ida.- The Southern Idaho Parks has selected Kurt Ikeda as the first education specialist to jointly manage the education program of three of Idaho’s national parks: Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Minidoka National Historic Site, and Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Bullhead, South Dakota, man was sentenced on Dec. 16, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann, as a result of a jury convicting him of involuntary manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Federal agents this morning arrested two Orange County residents on charges stemming from the slaying of a man who was shot in the head and dumped from a boat off the California coast.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: A man who illegally possessed a firearm was sentenced today to more than two years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - The last of 11 Houston men convicted in a conspiracy to unlawfully possess a firearm by a felon has been sent to prison, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As part the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California’s strategy to reduce violent crime by focusing on firearms prosecutions, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced that a federal grand jury returned indictments today in the following cases involving firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man pleaded guilty today to robbing a bank, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for being convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a former supervisor of a tribal government department was sentenced on Dec. 12, 2019, by U.S. Magistrate Judge William D. Gerdes.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, led every member of the Senate Democratic caucus to demand that the Department...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced today he has introduced bipartisan legislation to expand opportunities for small businesses to contract with the federal government. Federal contracts can provide...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Montana/Dakotas raised $191,912.50 in its quarterly oil and gas lease sale held online December 18. Nearly 50 percent of the revenue from the sale will go to the states where the oil and gas activity occurs - in this case Montana and North Dakota - while the rest will go to the U.S. Treasury.
