News from November 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet Chairman John Thune (R-SD), Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), Subcommittee on...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota announced two additions to Committee staff on Friday.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man was sentenced today to five years in prison for manufacturing and distributing anabolic steroids and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former Fairfax County elementary school teacher’s assistant was sentenced today to 12 1/2 years in prison and 20 years of supervised release for the attempted coercion and enticement of a minor and distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - The suspected leader of a Chicago-area street gang has been arrested for allegedly attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - LAQUAY LEE JEFFERS, 41, has been convicted by a jury of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: A convicted felon who was twice previously convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm was sentenced Nov. 14, 2019, to nearly seven years in federal prison following his third such conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: A Latin Counts gang member was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering and assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider, Special Agent in Charge James Deir of the ATF’s Detroit Division, and Chief James Craig of the Detroit Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - LAQUAY LEE JEFFERS, 41, has been convicted by a jury of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - JASON SCOTT PEDRO, 37, of Clinton, has been sentenced to 84 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Thirty-two individuals were arrested on federal and state drug and gun charges and 79 illegal firearms, including assault weapons, were seized from multiple locations near Lawrence, Massachusetts, in a joint local, state and federal investigation that included U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that KASHAWN LYONS was sentenced to 210 months in prison in connection with his sale of the fentanyl that resulted in the death of Matthew Azimi, a public school teacher in the Bronx. LYONS pled guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Miquise Jones, a/k/a Scaife, 22, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to racketeering and narcotics conspiracy. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: “Brick" of fentanyl was first thought to be black tar heroin that led to Denver public health bulletin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: Larry Vernon Snow, Bryant Austin Snow Charged with Conspiracy, Federal Identity Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: A Greenville man who made $50 from his crimes will repay each dollar with a month in prison. Aeron Michael Davis, 28, has been sentenced to 50 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release for methamphetamine distribution and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - A federal jury in Brooklyn returned a guilty verdict on all counts today against Aleksandr Pikus, the manager of medical clinics in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, for his role in multimillion-dollar health care kickback and money laundering schemes. Specifically, Pikus was convicted of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, MONROE, ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced the resolution of several cases this week, all of which are separately noted, that were brought pursuant to the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program, which is the centerpiece of the Department of Justice’s violent...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Osvaldo Martinez-Zamora, 44, and Mauricio Munoz-Martinez, 45, both citizens of Mexico, pled guilty yesterday to unlawful reentry by an alien after deportation or removal, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans, and Gregory K. Bovino, Chief Patrol Agent of the Border Patrol’s New Orleans Sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Sherquille Ernest, age 27, of Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Nov. 13, 2019, by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo to 41 months’ imprisonment for his role in a Monroe County-based heroin and cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
