News from December 2020
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Who’s naughty? Who’s nice? What would it be like if Santa was a soldier in 1867? These questions and more are answered in this year’s Virtual Christmas Open House hosted by Fort Larned National Historic Site (NHS). In lieu of the annual Christmas Open House at Fort Larned, this virtual event will be published on Fort Larned’s Facebook page as well as the park’s official website (www.nps.gov/fols) at 9:00AM on Saturday, December 19th.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Dec. 10, 2020, Mitchell Ocker-Mullen, age 23, of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for possession of five explosive devices.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - With paid sick days and family leave for an estimated 22 million workers set to expire on December 31st, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the House Appropriations...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - On Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced Keith Eric Saunders, 50, of Brevard, N.C. to 19 years in prison for production of child pornography, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term imposed, Saunders was also ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - JORGE LOUIS VILLARREAL, 41, of Texas, RICHARD CLINTON POND, 49, of Oklahoma City, and COREY LEE JUMP, 50, of Tecumseh, Oklahoma, have been charged with conspiring to deal firearms without a license, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Columbus Donavan Jeffrey (43, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to two counts of producing images depicting himself as he sexually abused a child. Jeffrey faces an aggregate mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, and up to 60 years, in federal prison and a potential life term of supervised release. Jeffrey was arrested on Oct. 3, 2019, and remains in custody. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DOMENICO SANDALO, 46, of Norwalk, pleaded guilty today to one count of possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 130,000 metric tons of soybean cake and meal for delivery to the Philippines during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By State Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today applauded final passage of H.R.6395, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Two Georgia Correctional Officers Indicted for Civil Rights and Related Offenses for Assaulting Inmates.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Ronald Clarence Kearney, age 32, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty on Dec. 10, 2020, to a federal charge for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Geoffrey Hines, 34, of Upper Darby, PA, was arrested and charged by Indictment with 29 counts of child pornography offenses. The defendant made his initial appearance in federal court this afternoon in front of United States Magistrate Court Judge Richard Lloret, who ordered him detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that on December 9, 2020, MUSA FATTY, age 35, of Westwego, was sentenced by United States District Judge Lance M. Africk after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to export stolen motor vehicles and criminal contempt.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, key House and Senate Committee leaders announced a bipartisan agreement on legislation to protect patients from surprise medical bills and establish a fair framework to resolve payment disputes between health care providers and health insurance companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO -Escondido pain clinic doctor Bradley Chesler, M.D., has paid the United States $153,000 to resolve allegations that he overprescribed opioids. Dr. Chesler is a board-certified physiatrist who operates a pain clinic in Escondido, California. This settlement stems from the United States’ investigation into whether Dr. Chesler illegally prescribed opioids to his patients in violation of the Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Marcin Stanislaw Garbacz of Rapid City, South Dakota, who was convicted in March of 2020 on 65 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, transfer of stolen money, and filing false tax returns, has now been charged in federal district court with Engaging in Illicit Sexual Conduct in a Foreign Place and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Coeur d’Alene, ID - On Friday evening, the U.S. Marshals Greater Idaho Fugitive Task Force teamed up with the U.S. Marshals Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force and the Spokane Valley Police Department in Spokane, Washington to arrest a violent fugitive accused of multiple sex crimes against minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with fraudulently using the identity of a U.S. citizen to apply for a passport and driver’s license.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Eric Lee Robinson, Jr. (29, Tampa) to 28 years in federal prison for conducting a string of armed robberies of convenience stores and a restaurant over a three-week period in Tampa. On March 7, 2019, Robinson had pleaded guilty to four counts of brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge Catherine D. Perry sentenced Raymond Barrett to 57 months in prison today. The 40-year-old St. Louis, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
