News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - United States Attorney D. Michael Dunavant is pleased to announce that Criminal Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Beth C. Boswell and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Musselwhite have successfully completed and been certified as instructors of the Department of Justice Gang Resistance Education...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: Jamal Hassan and Saddam Hassan Sentenced for a Conspiracy Involving Over 5 Million Contraband Cigarettes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: Defendant Faces a Mandatory Minimum 16-Year Prison Sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE - Eight people who were charged in a wide-ranging drug investigation that resulted in the seizure of significant quantities of suspected fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine were arrested earlier today. All those arrested appeared in U.S. District Court in Seattle today.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: BALTIMORE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested two criminal aliens after their release by Prince George’s County, Maryland, despite each having immigration detainers. Those arrested include a member of MS-13 and a convicted sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearms and narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the sentencing of three pro-democracy Hong Kong activists:
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shane Guay, 30, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to receipt of child pornography. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Acting U.S. Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon announced today her office’s participation in a nationwide Money Mule Initiative, a coordinated operation to disrupt the networks through which transnational fraudsters move the proceeds of their crimes. Money mules are people who assist fraudsters...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that James Dean, 37, La Crosse, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 10 ½ years in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: Dear Attorney General Barr and Director Wray...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the third phase of the experimental Household Pulse Survey. The Household Pulse Survey is the result of an effort by the Census Bureau and other federal statistical agencies to document temporal trends in how individuals are experiencing business curtailment...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Jesus Christian Miranda-Alcantar, 33, an illegal alien from Mexico, has been charged in a federal indictment with attempted bribery of a federal officer and illegal reentry following deportation from the United States, announced United States Attorney Mike Hurst, Gilbert Trill, Acting...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Misael Montalvo, 45, of Queens, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: PORT ANGELES, WA: The final phase of work for the Spruce Railroad Trail Project at Lake Crescent is now complete. The trail improvements were part of a multi-year collaborative project to establish the entire 10-mile length of the Olympic Discovery Trail section on the north shore of Lake Crescent as...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: An Aroostook County man was sentenced today in federal court in Bangor for conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A member of the North Shore Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty today to drug distribution charges.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service is pleased to announce that the 2021 Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) application process for Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, and Wright Brothers National Memorial is now open.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a Mercer County, New Jersey, man is expected to make his initial appearance today after being charged with possession with the intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge John L. Badalamenti today sentenced Justin Patrick Obert (32, Fort Myers) to three months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for communicating a false distress message to the Coast Guard. The court also ordered Obert to pay $13,414.78 to the Coast Guard for costs associated with their search and rescue response.
