News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 27-year-old man from San Jacinto County has received a 35-year prison term following his convictions of producing and possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A former non-profit executive director and a former director of the Diocese of Columbus Office of Catholic Schools have pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to the federal E-Rate Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today the return of an indictment charging a Filipino national, Louis Isom Mangampat, with aggravated sexual abuse. Mangampat was arraigned in federal court today in St. Thomas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Sentences. Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson sentenced SERGIO GOMEZ-ARTEAGA, 31, of Mexico on Oct. 31, 2019 for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Gomez-Arteaga was arrested in Evanston, Wyoming. He received fifty-seven months of imprisonment and was ordered to pay a $100.00 fine...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Springfield, MO - The U.S. Marshals Midwest Violent Fugitive Task Force is working to keep Southwest Missouri safe with the arrest of 11 dangerous sex offenders in October.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced up to $30 million in funding for a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy (BETHE). BETHE projects will support the development of timely, commercially viable fusion energy, aiming to increase the number and performance levels of lower-cost fusion concepts.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: National Park Service (NPS) Region 1 Regional Director Gay Vietzke has named Steven Sims as the new permanent superintendent of Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site in Pennsylvania. Sims is currently serving as superintendent of Valley Forge National Historical Park, Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site and the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail. He will begin his new assignment in late January.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury in San Francisco convicted Wing Wo Ma, a/k/a Mark Ma, a/k/a Fat Mark, of murder, drug distribution conspiracy, weapons, and bribery charges, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The verdict follows a three-week trial before the Honorable Charles R. Breyer, United States District Judge.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - Stovepipe Wells and Texas Springs Campgrounds will open on November 14. At that point, all of Death Valley National Park’s 785 front-country campsites will be open.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Thomas E. Johnston today sentenced Ryan Russell Parks, a/k/a Dinero, age 26, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 240 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for two counts of sex trafficking of a minor and one count of using the Internet...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Miami, FL pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiring to distribute kilograms of cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: This afternoon, and at my request, I met with St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell along with the top leaders of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to discuss the pressing gun-violence issue in St. Paul. All agencies present, including the FBI, ATF, U.S. Marshals, BCA, and Ramsey County Sheriff’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: The Long Island Company Supplied Chinese-Made Surveillance Equipment to U.S. Government and Private Customers While Falsely Claiming its Products Were “Made in U.S.A.".
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Tower Research Capital LLC Agrees to Pay $67 Million in Connection With Commodities Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A certified public accountant in Lebanon, Missouri, was convicted by a federal jury today of a $7 million scheme to defraud his employer and clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A Billings man who admitted robbing Dotty’s Casino at gunpoint and demanded the attendant to empty the till was sentenced today to 13 years and six months in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Private land marijuana cultivation resulted in death of a law enforcement officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the arrest of Nicholas Allen Groves (35, Ocala) on a criminal complaint charging him with possession of a firearm affecting commerce by a convicted felon. If convicted, Groves faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was sentenced today in federal court for his role in a cocaine trafficking ring responsible for smuggling over 20 kilograms of cocaine into central Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: A federal jury found a local drug dealer guilty of killing a Dallas teenager following an investigation by the FBI Dallas Field Office, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
