News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND-Victor Wiggins, 38, of Gary, Indiana, was sentenced by Judge Philip P. Simon to 144 months imprisonment following his guilty plea to one count of Conspiracy to distribute 5 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: Boise, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management Four Rivers Field Office announced today that the agency has acquired 560 acres in the northwest Boise foothills to enhance public access to open space and recreation opportunities. The BLM purchased the land- known as the Healy Toll Road parcel-from the Land...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: New York, NY - Two deputy U.S. Marshals with the New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force were injured this morning in a shootout in the Bronx with a suspect wanted in Massachusetts for a November shooting of a state police officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: “Early this morning law enforcement officers, executing a fugitive warrant issued by this office, exchanged gunfire with suspect Andre Sterling, who was wanted for shooting a Massachusetts State Trooper last week. Two Deputy U.S. Marshals were shot and are now hospitalized. Sterling is dead.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Antoine Coles, age 33, of Baltimore, yesterday to 10 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after Coles pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - National durable medical equipment manufacturer Joint Active Systems, Inc. (JAS) has agreed to pay $1.5 million, and orthotics and prosthetics clinic chain New England Orthotics & Prosthetics, LLP (NEOPS) has agreed to pay $90,000, to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Adan Barajas Maldonado (35, Mexico) to 25 years in prison for conspiring to distribute controlled substances and for possessing a gun to further his drug trafficking enterprise. Maldonado had pleaded guilty on Oct. 30, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: A man who called the Washington D.C. office of Congressman Jerrold Nadler and threatened the Congressman pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 182,020 metric tons of corn for delivery to Mexico during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice has recognized Dallas-based nonprofit Better Block for its support of the U.S. Attorney’s Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Initiative, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox. The Better Block Foundation, launched in 2015 by Jason Roberts, was the sole recipient of DOJ’s “Outstanding Community Involvement" PSN award, which recognizes outstanding efforts to restore safety and security to communities across the nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in Toledo returned a one-count indictment charging Scott Allen Renninger, age 52, of Uniontown with use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 44-year-old man has entered a guilty plea to aiding and abetting the export of defense articles from the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: A Red Oak, Texas couple has been sentenced to a combined 18+ years in federal prison for their roles in a $15 million retirement plan embezzlement scheme, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jasmin Osteen, 23, of Jamestown, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with two counts of sex trafficking of a minor. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, and a maximum of life in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the National Park Service (NPS) will completely reopen the rehabilitated Arlington Memorial Bridge to drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists. The $227 million rehabilitation project, one of the largest infrastructure projects in NPS history, is a momentous accomplishment for the Department of the Interior and its federal partners that will extend the bridge’s useful life for 75 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced that Troy R. Gillon, 46, of Lockport, NY, who was convicted of narcotics conspiracy following an eight week jury trial, was sentenced to serve 25 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah pharmacy is accused of dispensing thousands of highly addictive controlled substances in violation of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) in a newly filed federal lawsuit, U.S. Attorney John W. Huber announced today. The complaint was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Troy R. Gillon, 46, of Lockport, NY, who was convicted of narcotics conspiracy following an eight week jury trial, was sentenced to serve 25 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 36-year-old Honduran national who was illegally residing in Houston has been charged with harboring 29 individuals, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man who pled guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Nov. 16, 2020, by U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
