News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment in early October charging a Tulsa woman with stealing mail and destroying post office boxes at a U.S. Post Office station located in south Tulsa, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores. The indictment was unsealed today after Hillary Victoria Ginn, 42, was arrested by U.S. Postal Inspection Service Inspectors and she made an initial appearance in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jong Woo Son, 23, a South Korean national, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia for his operation of Welcome To Video, the largest child sexual exploitation market by volume of content. The nine-count indictment was unsealed today along with a parallel civil forfeiture...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded $160,902 to London-based startup CrowdVision Ltd. to develop an integrated proof-of-concept for an airport passenger counting and measuring system for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Jonathan D. Larsen, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (“IRS-CI"), announced today the arrest of LORENZO ALMANZAR for preparing fraudulent...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Garrett Michael Carrigan, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 18 months incarceration for escaping federal custody, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced James Bernard Kennedy (46, Jacksonville) to seven years and four months in federal prison for distributing cocaine base (also known as crack cocaine).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Ariana Fajardo Orshan, Nova Southeastern University’s Coalition for Research and Education Against Trafficking and Exploitation (CREATE) and the Federal South Florida Human Trafficking Task Force hosted a symposium yesterday to raise public awareness...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - To close the 2019 Fiscal Year, the United States Department of Justice awarded twenty grants, amounting to nearly seven million dollars to support public safety and crime fighting initiatives throughout the Northern District of Alabama, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town. Nine north Alabama...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that GLENN BLICHT, the former president of a labor union (the “Union"), pled guilty today to violating the Taft-Hartley Act by demanding and accepting approximately $150,000 in bribe payments from an employer...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: A Rochester, New York man was sentenced today in federal court in Bangor for conspiring to distribute cocaine base, heroin and fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks during a markup of H.R. 1123, the Divisional Realignment for the Eastern District of Arkansas Act of 2019...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Nicole M. Scott, 42, of St. Louis City, Missouri, pleaded guilty to one felony count of wire fraud. Scott appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey who accepted her plea and set her sentencing date for Jan. 23, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: By Presidential Proclamation, October is Domestic Violence Awareness month. Domestic violence is a heinous crime that terrorizes adults and children, destroys relationships, and shatters the home, which should be a place of safety, love, and respect. Across the country, domestic violence threatens -...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - David Quevedo Martinez, 40, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola to life in federal prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley with the Drug Enforcement Administration. Martinez was also ordered to pay a $15,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - The owner of a Springfield gun store whose falsified records showed he was selling guns to a deceased individual was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 18 months in prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah woman - the lead defendant in a drug trafficking ring responsible for distributing more than 99 pounds of methamphetamine in Utah, Idaho and other locations - will spend 20 years in federal prison following her conviction for methamphetamine trafficking and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: South Korean National and Hundreds of Others Charged Worldwide in the Takedown of the Largest Darknet Child Pornography Website, Which was Funded by Bitcoin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 44-year-old McAllen woman has been charged with conspiring to pay illegal kickbacks to physicians and marketers in exchange for the referral of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Agriculture Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee Chairman Jim Costa of California released the following statement after a briefing from Ambassador Gregg Doud of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Brookline, MA - John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site’s 2019 visitor season ends on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. On Thursday, Oct. 31, Halloween Night, John Fitzgerald Kennedy NHS Park Rangers will greet trick-or-treaters 5:00 - 8:00 PM. with a Halloween packet featuring a limited edition...
