News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man, Juan Gomez, 29, who was found guilty by a federal jury in June, of possession with the intent to distribute heroin and methamphetamine, was sentenced today to 235 months in federal prison, by Chief United States District Judge Danny Reeves.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: ROME, GA. - Voltaire Peter Pierre, a former corrections officer at Hays State Prison, has pleaded guilty to smuggling methamphetamine, crack cocaine, and marijuana past prison security and into the hands of inmates in exchange for payments. Because Pierre stored the drugs at his family home before smuggling them into the prison, he also pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine on premises where a minor resides.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
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By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Ronald Roscoe, 56, of Traverse City, Michigan, was sentenced in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Richard Anthony Moffett (31, Jacksonville) to 25 years in federal prison for using force, fraud, and coercion to cause multiple victims to engage in prostitution. The court will make a determination as to the amount of restitution Moffett owes to each of his five victims at a later date. Moffett had pleaded guilty on June 7, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A California man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to using bribery and other forms of fraud to facilitate his children’s admission to the University of Southern California (USC) as purported athletic recruits.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Justice announced it has awarded more than $85.3 million to bolster school security-including funding to educate and train students and faculty-and support first responders who arrive on the scene of a school shooting or other violent incident.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Mark Manapsal, 35, of Manchester, was sentenced in federal court to 70 months in prison for distribution of cocaine, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Oct. 22, 2019, United States Attorney Andrew Murray will testify at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Sanctuary Jurisdictions: The Impact on Public Safety," scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Paterson, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 300 months in prison for the distribution of kilogram quantities of heroin, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. - A 14-month investigation by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents in the Quad Cities Post of Duty helped put away 54-year old Mixtecas Motorcycle Club member Jerry Green for 28 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to distribution of methamphetamine, possession of two pipe bombs, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking and felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael John Maisey, of Sistersville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 37 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: BALTIMORE - Devron Lasha Young, Jr., 22, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to a federal charge of possession with intent to distribute approximately 75 grams of fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl-enough to kill 37,500 people. Young was charged in federal court as part of a federal-state initiative announced in December 2018 to combat the fentanyl crisis in Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: SAN JOSE - South Bay doctor Venkat Aachi was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for health care fraud and for distributing hydrocodone outside the scope of his professional practice and without a legitimate medical need, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Drug Enforcement Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Jaclyn Starkey, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, has admitted to selling methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that District Judge Robert D. Mariani sentenced Luis Enrique Martinez-Ortiz, age 27, of Wilkes-Barre, to 87 months’ imprisonment on Oct. 16, 2019, for his role in a heroin, cocaine, and crack trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Bilal Mohammad Siddiqui, age 22, of Catonsville, Maryland, pleaded guilty on Oct. 18, 2019 to federal charges of sexual exploitation of children and cyberstalking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Carson City School District Awarded Over $190,000 in Funding.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY- Women’s Rights National Historical Park will begin its winter hours of operation on Oct. 27, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - In keeping with the administration’s priorities of being good neighbors and respecting the ties that native and traditional communities have to public lands, the Bureau of Land Management is announcing that the entire Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument will be closed on Nov. 1, 2019. This closure allows for Pueblo de Cochiti cultural observances and routine BLM maintenance.
