News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Curtis Arganbright, age 42, a former Westminster Police Officer, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Denver to one count of violating the civil rights of a female in his care whom he sexually assaulted. The guilty plea was entered...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Dan Lipinski (D-IL), and Chairman...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released the Mail Contact Strategies Viewer showing how the country will be asked to respond to the 2020 Census. Nearly every household will be invited to respond online, by phone or by mail to the census starting in mid-March 2020. Most areas-about three of every four households-will...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A citizen and resident of the Dominican Republic pleaded guilty today in Miami, Florida, to multiple criminal charges in connection with a sophisticated global cellphone fraud scheme that involved compromising cellphone customers’ accounts in the United States and “cloning" their phones to make fraudulent international calls.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) sent a letter with all five subcommittee chairs to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt today urging no action be taken on proposed Resource Management Plans (RMP) and Final Environmental Impact Statements (FEIS) for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and the Kanab-Escalante Planning Area, pending the outcome of ongoing litigation on President Trump’s illegal shrinking of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady. As U.S. Attorney, I am charged with leading the federal response to our most pressing criminal problems. We have spent considerable resources in the fights against the opioid epidemic and violent crime in western Pennsylvania. Together with our state and local law enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SHAQUILLE PEARSON, 25, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 39 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal firearm conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa -On Nov. 15, 2019, United States Chief District Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Kevin Lamond Claville, 33, to 160 months in prison on the charge of Distribution of a Controlled Substance, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Claville was also order to serve four years of supervised release following imprisonment, and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man was sentenced to five years in prison for manufacturing and distributing anabolic steroids and money laundering.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: One day in the future when you need medical care, someone will examine you, diagnose the problem, remove some of your body’s healthy cells, and then use them to grow a cure for your ailment. The therapy will be personalized and especially attuned to you and your body, your genes, and the microbes that live in your gut. This is the dream of modern medical science in the field of “regenerative medicine."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - Senior U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm has sentenced a former Bloomington, Ill., man, Timothy J. Herman, 59, currently of Mesa, Ariz., to 6 ½ years (78 months) in prison for defrauding an elderly woman of more than $500,000. Herman was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $509,325...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: On Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019, the First Flight Society and the National Park Service (NPS) will continue the tradition of honoring the accomplishments of Wilbur and Orville Wright at the 116th anniversary celebration of the first heavier-than-air, controlled, powered flight. The event takes place outside of the Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center. Park entrance fees will be waived for the day.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging four members of a Grand Island, NY, family for their roles in two bank robberies. Timothy L. Mulvey, 33, is charged with aggravated bank robbery; entering a bank...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former nanny was sentenced today to 360 months in federal prison for producing child pornography with at least five children - most of whom were eight and nine years old - who had been placed under his care.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 48-year-old resident of Brookshire has been ordered to prison after admitting to transportation of explosives with the intent to kill, injure and intimidate a person, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI. Julia Ann Poff pleaded guilty July 1, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Cuyahoga Valley National Park News Release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man pleaded guilty today to an attempted robbery at a liquor store, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - Senior U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm has sentenced a former Bloomington, Ill., man, Timothy J. Herman, 59, currently of Mesa, Ariz., to 6 ½ years (78 months) in prison for defrauding an elderly woman of more than $500,000. Herman was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $509,325...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal jury has convicted Ray Davis, 30, of Rochester, NY, of two counts of sex trafficking, one count of sex trafficking conspiracy, two counts of production of child pornography, and two counts of distribution of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum penalty of life, and a $250,000 fine.
