News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A felon with eight prior convictions, caught running an underground illegal gun trade while out on parole, was sentenced to 210 months in prison, said U.S. Attorney Charles “Charlie" Peeler. There is no parole in the federal system. Ronnie Lee Hughes, 39, of Griffin, Georgia was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that Donnie Laing Jr., 39, of Youngsville, Louisiana, has been charged by federal indictment with nine counts of wire fraud stemming from his involvement in a million dollar Ponzi scheme which was orchestrated through his limited liability company, Capital Energy Investments (“Capital").
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Defendant, Extradited from Ukraine, Allegedly Engaged in an Eight-Year Campaign of Cybercrime.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Eight individuals from Fitchburg and Gardner were charged with participating in a wide-ranging fentanyl, heroin and cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Small Business Committee Chair Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.) responded yesterday to a filing by the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that OSVALDO SAEZ, 32, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a New Haven drug trafficking ring.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A three-day law enforcement operation to combat human trafficking and vice in a Kansas City suburb ended Nov. 14 and resulted in 21 arrests.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Johnothan L. Lavender, 31, of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court for discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Lavender pleaded guilty to the charge in August of 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the District Attorney for New York County, announced the conviction today of MARK S. SCOTT, following a three-week trial before the Honorable Edgardo Ramos. SCOTT, a former equity partner at...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Christopher Aaron Roddenberry, 30, of Milton, Florida, was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in federal court this morning for his participation in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Shahjahan Sultan, M.D., 37 of Madison, Mississippi and Thomas Edward Sturdavant, M.D., 56, of Kingsport, Tennessee, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to conspiring to commit health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Tevye T. Jones, 21, of Lexington, pleaded guilty Thursday to illegal possession of a firearm and cocaine, before U.S. District Judge Karen K. Caldwell.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: MOAB, UT-The Southeast Utah Group of national parks (Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges national monuments) is joining national parks across the country in waiving entrance fees on five days in 2020 as a way to encourage people to get outdoors and spend time with their friends and family in the national parks this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on Nov. 20, 2019, Senior United States District Court Judge Richard G. Kopf sentenced Jeremy Deen, 34, of Lincoln, Nebraska, to 120 months’ imprisonment for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Following the prison term, Deen will serve five years on supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Beginning Nov. 25 - Dec. 23, the Bureau of Land Management Rio Puerco Field Office, in cooperation with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, plans to conduct the Mertz Ranch prescribed fire on approximately 1,000 acres within the El Malpais National Conservation Area (NCA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Maurice Bellafonta Cathey, a/k/a “Short", age 39, of Chicago, Illinois, was found guilty of two counts of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, Distribution of a Controlled Substance Resulting in Death, and two counts of Distribution of a Controlled Substance Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, on Nov. 20, 2018, as a result of a federal jury trial in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney and Department of Interior’s Inspector General praise program.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: JACKSON, Tenn. - Nov. 21, 2019 - Barbara Zoccola, 58, of Memphis, Tennessee, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to a federal theft charge, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee. Zoccola was charged in a criminal Information filed on October 9, 2019, which resulted from an investigation by the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General into Zoccola’s time and attendance records.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging FELIX ANTONIO JUAREZ-ANTUNEZ, age 35, of Honduras, LIDIO GOMEZ-GOMEZ, age 49, of Mexico, EDUARDO AGUILAR-ARELLANO, age 35, of Mexico, and JOSE CENTENO-ANGEL, age 31, of Mexico with Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Latonia Smith, 25, of Las Vegas, with five counts of sending threatening communications through the U.S. Mail, U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada announced.
