News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ISHMAEL FARRAKAN MUHAMMAD, a.k.a. Mike Rodgers, a.k.a. Dewayne Robinson, 32, of Stillwater, has been sentenced to serve 110 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm after having been previously convicted of a felony crime, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Continued to Engage in Fraud Schemes After His Arrest and Released from Custody Earlier this Year; Faces Likely Sentence of Five to Eight Years in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - A 22-year-old Dayton man was sentenced in U.S. District Court here today for committing at least five armed robberies.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: ELY, Nev. - On or around December 6, the Bureau of Land Management Ely District Office, Caliente Field Office will begin an emergency wild horse gather on the Meadow Valley Mountains and Delamar Mountains Herd Areas (HAs) about 20 miles southwest of Caliente in Lincoln County, Nevada. The action is needed due to a lack of forage and water and declining health of the wild horses associated with significant wildfires and herd overpopulation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - Residents of Johnstown, Pa., and Washington, Pa. were indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics laws and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on Leader McConnell’s latest COVID proposal, as reported by the Washington Post...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Bobbi Jo Starry, of Wheeling, West Virginia, is facing a sex offender registry charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) and Senate Aging Committees, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), the Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Congresswoman Katie Porter...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Sues Northern Alabama Housing Authority and Property Owners for Housing Discrimination on the Basis of Race.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: The Chief Engineer of the vessel was also convicted.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Devon Alexander Bertram, of Wheeling, West Virginia, is facing drug charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A California man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for his role in a conspiracy to traffic drugs from California to Western Massachusetts and launder the proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Roger Lee Stevens, of Middlebourne, West Virginia, is facing tax fraud charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit alleging that the Housing Authority of Ashland, Alabama, which manages seven federally funded low-income housing complexes, violated the Fair Housing Act by intentionally discriminating on the basis of race or color...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Mark Joseph Dobrzynski, of Valley Grove, West Virginia, is facing drug trafficking charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Fargo - United States Attorney Drew H. Wrigley announced that U.S. District Court Chief Judge Peter D. Welte sentenced Paul Henry Cavanaugh, age 55, from Fort Totten, ND, to serve 21 years and 8 months in federal prison, followed by supervised release for life and ordered to pay $100 special assessment...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Pacific Carriers Limited (PCL), a Singapore-based company that owns subsidiaries engaged in international shipping, was sentenced today in federal court before U.S. District Court Judge Louise Flanagan in New Bern, North Carolina, after pleading guilty to violations of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, obstruction of justice, and for a failure to notify the U.S. Coast Guard of a hazardous condition on the Motor Vessel (M/V) Pac Antares.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Lawrence Paul Schmidt, aka Lawrence Schmid, 60, formerly of the District of Columbia, has been extradited from the United Kingdom to stand trial in the District of Columbia on bank fraud and money laundering charges related to an investment fraud scheme. The announcement was made by Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin and James A. Dawson, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former member of the New Bedford Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty today to racketeering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Don Halmy, Chief of the Peekskill Police Department (“PPD"), and Thomas Gleason, Commissioner...
