News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: VALDOSTA, Ga. - A South Carolina man with an extensive criminal history was sentenced to 120 months in prison for human sex trafficking, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Kenneth Hutto, 46, of Summerville, South Carolina entered a guilty plea on January...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A fugitive member of a violent Brockton drug crew charged with fentanyl trafficking has been apprehended.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: Seattle - A Seattle man trafficking large amounts of cocaine in the Seattle area as a leader of a violent street gang was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 150 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. MICHAEL SCOTT MORGAN, 43, was arrested June 6, 2018, as part of...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: DENVER-- The National Park Service (NPS) today rescinded the direction in a Sept. 24, 2019, memo to Utah park superintendents asking that they remove off-road vehicle closures in effect on NPS roads in Utah by November 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jacob Wright, of West Union, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 78 months incarceration for his involvement in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: The United States Sentencing Commission has reappointed U.S. Attorney Trent Shores this week as the Department of Justice representative for the Tribal Issues Advisory Group (TIAG). The new term will run until Dec. 31, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Greenfield, Missouri, man who crashed his motorcycle into another vehicle during a police chase was sentenced in federal court today for possessing methamphetamine to distribute and illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: Two Reagor Dykes Auto Group employees pleaded guilty today for their role in the auto group’s floor plan fraud scheme, following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas Field Office, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Suzanne Silva, the former Chief Operating Officer of Winthrop University Hospital Employees Federal Credit Union, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for embezzling credit union funds during her employment and ordered to pay $465,172 in restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Baris A. Koch, 30, of Dayton, with misprision of a felony and making false statements.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: A Parma man was indicted in federal court for allegedly robbing three banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Michael Bush has been sentenced on federal charges of producing, receiving, and possessing child pornography. During the search of his home, agents discovered images that Bush had taken, even images of an eleven-year-old child.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Bill Powell, FBI SAC Robert Jones, and U.S. Attorney Mike Stuart take calls during AARP event.
By State Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as well as Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), chairman and ranking member of the Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: The lead defendant in the Han Gil Hotel criminal case has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on drug and gun charges, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: DENVER-- The National Park Service (NPS) today rescinded the direction in a Sept. 24, 2019, memo to Utah park superintendents asking that they remove off-road vehicle closures in effect on NPS roads in Utah by November 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ratek Bogan, 45, of the District, pleaded guilty today to assaulting a woman on Aug. 26, 2019, in the stairwell of her apartment building, intending to rape her, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging Lavon Parks, a/k/a Dutch, 29, and his father, James C. Parks, 55, both of Niagara Falls, NY, with discharge of firearm causing death involving the murder of Kevin Turner. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: Valdosta, Ga. - A Valdosta doctor guilty of defrauding the federal and state Medicare and Medicaid health care programs of more than $2.2 million was sentenced to 97 months in prison today, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. A citizen jury returned a...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2019
News Release: Lexington, KY- Emmanuel Maurice Strange, who previously admitted to conspiring to distribute hundreds of oxycodone pills throughout Nicholasville, Kentucky, and surrounding areas, was sentenced this week.
