News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: Chippewa Cree Tribe in Montana selected for Access Program to Improve the Exchange of Critical Data.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) today released the text of two legislative packages that together comprise all 12 fiscal year 2020 funding bills. The minibuses, products of bipartisan, bicameral negotiations, are expected to be considered in the House on Tuesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Darryl Mickle, 35, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, was sentenced to serve 57 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas; announced that on Dec. 16, 2019, three (3) individuals were sentenced by the United States District Court for their roles in a methamphetamine trafficking ring which operated in Boone and Carroll...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Carlos Rivera, age 43, of Chatham, New York, pled guilty on December 13 to possessing and intending to distribute cocaine and to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Four individuals have been charged in U.S. District Court in Providence for their roles in an alleged drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy that trafficked at least 50 kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico to Rhode Island through the U.S. Postal Service, and in return sent tens...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - William M. Johnson, Jr., of McMechen, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 15 months incarceration for a firearms violation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - John Henry Bevel Jr., 44, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, was sentenced on Dec. 12 in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico to 25 years (300 months) in prison on child pornography charges. Bevel was also ordered to pay $25,000.00 in restitution to one of the victims of his crime.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey today delivered the following remarks to the House Rules Committee in support of an appropriate rule for the House to consider two legislative packages that together comprise all 12 fiscal year 2020 funding bills -, domestic priorities and international assistance appropriations minibus, and, national security appropriations minibus.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SALVATORE ARENA was sentenced on December 13 to 42 months in prison for defrauding clients who trusted him to prepare and pay their taxes. ARENA misappropriated over $780,000 of client money from approximately 170 victims for his own use. ARENA pled guilty on Aug. 23, 2019, before United States District Judge Katherine Polk Failla, who imposed Friday’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Dec. 16, 2019 Andy Lloyd Huebschmann, 59, of Chilton, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 24 month in federal prison for violating the Arms Export Control Act, Title 22, United States Code, Sections 2778(b)(2) and 2778(c), and Title 22, Code of Federal Regulations, Sections 121.1, 123.1, and 127.1.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I -- The Steam Vents parking lot in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will be closed Wednesday, December 18 from 8 a.m. to noon for little fire ant treatment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Michael Love, 46, a Horn Lake, MS resident, has been sentenced to life in federal prison after having been found guilty of kidnapping and sexually assaulting six women in Memphis and attempting to kidnap and rape a seventh between 2008 and 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: MIAMI, FL - Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Justin Green, Special Agent in Charge, Miami Field Office, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA-OCI) announced that five defendants were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks for their respective involvement in a global fraud scheme based upon false claims about the United States military and the Government of Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Four men who used off-road vehicles to retrieve a load of methamphetamine that was smuggled into the United States on an ultralight aircraft and dropped near the Salton Sea are scheduled to make their first court appearances this afternoon on federal narcotics trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that PATRICIA FRANCO-RODRIGUEZ, age 28, of Mexico, residing in Johnston County, North Carolina, was sentenced to a $975 fine and $25 special assessment by United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan after a guilty plea to illegal voting by an alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERTO ANTHONY TORRES, also known as “Toni," 52, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas; announced that on Dec. 16, 2019, three (3) individuals were sentenced by the United States District Court for their roles in a methamphetamine trafficking ring which operated in Boone and Carroll...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSUE FRANCO, also known as “Sway," 24, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 132 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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2019
News Release: Grants Totaling $2.5 Million Will Go to Several Organizations in the Western District of Virginia.
