News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a Tuscaloosa resident and six-time convicted felon to prison for possessing a pistol during a 2018 shooting at an intersection on Skyland Boulevard in Tuscaloosa, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Acting Special Agent in Charge Toby Taylor.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Antonio Tawan Bankhead, 32, of Fairfield, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley to three years and 10 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Mammoth Cave National Park’s Environmental Education (EE) program received over $3,500 from the Mammoth Cave National Park Association (MCNPA) to purchase computers and accessories to preform virtual EE programs. The donation will allow the park’s EE program to enhance it’s virtual educational programing since in-person classroom programs have been greatly reduced or eliminated because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA - The final remaining defendant among two dozen people indicted for operating a drug distribution ring in south Georgia and northern Florida has been sentenced to federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: CONCORD, NH - DEA New England Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Sergio Martinez, 30, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison for leading a continuing criminal enterprise and participating in a money laundering...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Mercer County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a large drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed more than one kilogram of heroin in Trenton and the surrounding area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of First Degree Murder and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on Aug. 21, 2020, by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - The U.S. Marshals Service Missing Child Unit, in conjunction with the agency’s Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and Georgia state and local agencies, led a two-week operation in August in Atlanta and Macon, Georgia, to rescue endangered missing children.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A 25-year-old South Kingstown man was arrested today and ordered to home confinement following an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Providence on federal child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Devin Baker, 31, an armed career criminal, has pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: A Mexican cartel boss and 27 coconspirators have been charged with laundering more than $10 million in drug proceeds through a local clothing retailer, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jawad Khalaf, 72, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Nashat Khalaf, 73, of Gallup, New Mexico, Sterling Islands, Inc., a wholesale jewelry business in Albuquerque, and Al-Zuni Global Jewelry, Inc., a wholesale jewelry business in Gallup, were sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on Aug. 24, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced actions it is taking to assist Americans in states affected by Hurricane Laura.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Harrington Alonzo, 34, of Pinehill, N.M., was sentenced Monday in federal court to 10 years of custody. In January, Alonzo pled guilty to charges of assault with a dangerous weapon in Indian Country, using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and possessing and discharging said firearm in furtherance of such crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: ROANOKE, Va. - A Roanoke woman, who conspired with others to enrich themselves by obtaining federal income tax refunds from the IRS to which they were not entitled, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Roanoke, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Antonio Tawan Bankhead, 32, of Fairfield, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley to three years and 10 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Two new state-of-the-art advanced technology computed tomography checkpoint scanners (CT) that provide 3-D imaging have been installed and are in use at the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Norfolk International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Kevin Scott Wynn, 59, of Scottsdale, Arizona, was apprehended last week by the United States Marshals Service after failing to appear for his scheduled sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Displayed Firearm During Heated Disagreement With Neighbor While Using Racially Charged Language.
