News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - The U.S. Marshals Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested DC fugitive Isaiah Murchison at a residence in the 1700 block of Lafayette Boulevard in Fredericksburg, Virginia, at approximately 8:15 p.m. Thursday.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: GUILTY PLEA - WILLIAM DODD. On Aug. 11, William Dodd, 34, pled guilty to possession with the intent to distribute a controlled substance and aiding and abetting. Dallas Police Department executed a search warrant and arrested Mr. Dodd at his Dallas-based stash house. Authorities seized 12.43 kilograms...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Alameda County resident has pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business that provided essential services to a fraudulent technical-support company, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Lawrence Keefe, of the Northern District of Florida, today announced that Pensacola business owner Gerald Mandel, 52, was sentenced to three years’ probation on federal charges of theft of government money and submitting false claims for overpayment to the...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - When visitors return to the Bureau of Land Management’s Carbella Recreation Site at the start of next summer season, they will find a freshly-upgraded site where they can pitch a tent or launch a boat along the Yellowstone River.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Richard Warf, of Sistersville, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and cocaine, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Aaron Bohannon Pleads Guilty to Making and Distributing Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: An ex-Dallas police officer has pleaded guilty to possessing sexually explicit images of little girls, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Stolen USAID Ventilators Recovered in Dade County.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Vincent Gibson, 39, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of bank robbery, entering a bank with intent to commit a larceny, bank larceny, and interstate communication of a threat to injure a person, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $5,000 to M&T Bank.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Florida Cool violated the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) by failing to pay reparation awards totaling $112,877 in favor of four Florida sellers. As a result, USDA imposed sanctions on the business, including requiring that all principals may not be employed by or affiliated with any PACA licensee without USDA approval.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A California insurance and private equity executive has agreed to plead guilty to charges in connection with using fraud and bribery to cheat on the ACT exam on behalf of his daughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Aug. 19, 2020, Jemel Xavier Williams, age 37, of Macon, Georgia, was sentenced to 92 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner for being a previously convicted felon in possession of firearms.
By State Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
Release: More information about Republic of the Congo is available on the Republic of the Congo page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Charlestown man was arrested yesterday and charged in connection with trafficking in firearms obtained from a straw purchaser in New Hampshire.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Ghanshyam Bhambhani to Pay $2 Million to Resolve Kickback and False Claims Allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Juan Carlos Cervantes-Ramirez, age 36, of Memphis, Tennessee entered a guilty plea to Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Shanta Johnson, age 43, of Germantown, Maryland, on the federal charges of aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns and subscribing to false tax returns. The indictment was returned on July 13, 2020, and was unsealed at her initial appearance today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the unsealing of a federal indictment charging GAGE ANTHONY NORRIS, 25, with one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. NORRIS made his initial appearance yesterday before Magistrate Judge Becky R. Thorson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota. NORRIS was ordered to remain in custody pending a formal detention and arraignment hearing, which is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Markuetric Stringfellow, 37, of Powder Springs, Georgia, appeared in court today and pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges filed in the U.S. District Courts in North and South Carolina, for defrauding the states’ Medicaid programs, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the...
