News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that AARON RUDOLPH, age 26, of New Orleans, was sentenced for bank robbery on Dec. 12, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has plead guilty to federal narcotics charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Haverhill licensed practical nurse was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for drug tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TORRENCE GAMBLE, also known as “Bones" and “Bone," 46, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 92 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for his participation in a New Haven drug trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - SCOTT ALLEN JONES, 32, of Woodward, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 161 months in prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition after a felony conviction, as well as for assaults on detention officers while in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C.-Today, Senator Murray, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to the Fifth Circuit decision in Texas v. U.S., which ruled the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: DETROIT - Today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Operation Relentless Pursuit, an initiative aimed at combating violent crime in seven of America’s most violent cities through a surge in federal resources.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released new demographic data for 22 countries in the International Data Base. Eleven of these countries are in Africa, five in the Americas, the three in the Middle East, two in Oceania and one in Europe.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that THERYN JONES, a/k/a “Ty," a/k/a “Old Man Ty," a/k/a “Tyballa," and ARIUS HOPKINS, a/k/a “Scrappy," a/k/a “Scrap," were convicted of the Jan. 2, 2014, murder of Shaquille Malcolm, 20, in the Bronx, New York. JONES and HOPKINS were convicted yesterday following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - United States Attorney David C. Weiss announced that Brandon Williams, 26, of Dover, was sentenced yesterday to 51 months in federal prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Leonard P. Stark. Williams previously pled guilty to stealing firearms from a Millsboro gun store and to the possession of a firearm by a person prohibited from possessing guns, due to Williams’ prior felony conviction in Delaware state court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shawn Woods, a/k/a Pif, 28, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to racketeering conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute of 400 grams or more of fentanyl. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $10,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - SCOTT ALLEN JONES, 32, of Woodward, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 161 months in prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition after a felony conviction, as well as for assaults on detention officers while in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - In fiscal year 2019 (FY 2019), which ran from Oct. 1, 2018 to Sept. 30, 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Washington, D.C. made nearly 470 total criminal arrests for crimes ranging from narcotics smuggling to gang investigations across its area of responsibility, which includes Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of MARTAVIS SHAWN DEMAR JAMES, 38, to 180 months in prison for the robbery and attempted robbery of 10 Twin Cities businesses. JAMES, who was convicted on May 17, 2019, was sentenced on Dec. 17, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson.
By State Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today held a committee business meeting to markup S.482, the Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act of 2019 (DASKAA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tyler Patrick Pietschmann, of Greenwood, West Virginia, was sentenced today to time served and five years of supervised release for failing to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: St Louis - Gary Scott Hancock, 30, of St. Louis, Missouri, entered a guilty plea to one count of Distribution of a Controlled Substance Resulting in Death before the Honorable Ronnie L. White today. Hancock is scheduled to appear for sentencing on March 25, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A federal judge convicted a Virginia Beach man today on charges of receipt and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man has been charged in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain $780,000 to purchase an apartment in Fort Lee, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: St. Louis - A United Kingdom national appeared today in federal court on charges of aggravated identity theft, threatening to damage a protected computer, and conspiring to commit those and other computer fraud offenses, related to his role in a computer hacking collective known as “The Dark Overlord," which targeted victims in the St. Louis, Missouri, area beginning in 2016.
