News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Special Attorneys Michael Wheat (619) 546-8437, Joseph Orabona (619) 546-7951, Janaki Chopra (619) 546-8817, and Colin McDonald (619) 546-9144.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: The Pilot Project Will Develop Guidelines to Improve Community Responses to American Indian and Alaska Native Missing Person Cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that KINTEA MCKENZIE, a/k/a “Kooda B," was sentenced to 54 months in prison in connection with a shooting outside a hotel in Times Square on June 2, 2018, in furtherance of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods (“Nine Trey") criminal enterprise. MCKENZIE pled guilty on June 3, 2019, before U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, who imposed today’s sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: A new study of face recognition technology created after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic shows that some software developers have made demonstrable progress at recognizing masked faces.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jay Bickford, 48, of Albuquerque, appeared in federal court for a detention hearing on Nov. 24, charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Bickford will remain in custody pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Steven Lockhart, of Davisville, West Virginia, is facing charges involving a minor, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man, Josh Gregory Taylor, was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison on Thursday, before U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, for his conviction for distributing fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Throughout December, Eisenhower National Historic Site will showcase decorations that Mamie Eisenhower displayed at their Gettysburg home. Eisenhower family holiday decorations will be displayed in the lobby of the Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center. Gettysburg National Military Park and the Gettysburg...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: A Tulsa man was sentenced today in federal court for his role in a heroin trafficking operation with ties to Mexico’s New Generation Cartel, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON - A Rocky Mount man was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison for several robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Aaron Campos, 47, owner of Campos Market, a retail and food convenience store in Boise, entered into a forfeiture agreement with the United States for unauthorized redemption of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Campos has agreed to pay $600,000 in restitution for SNAP benefits unlawfully redeemed.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Johnathan J. Quarles, 26, of Gulfport, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 30 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle Sutphin of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi. Quarles was also ordered to pay a $3,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Yohanna Gonzalez-McFarlane, 39, of the Dominican Republic, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller in District Court and entered a guilty plea to four counts charging her with bringing illegal aliens to the United States for financial gain, in violation of Title 8, United...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Martin Duran, 49, of Albuquerque, was arraigned in federal court on Nov. 25 for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin and being a felon in possession of ammunition. Duran will remain in custody pending trail.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John B. DeVito, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF"), and Dermot Shea, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD")...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former Fairfax doctor was sentenced today to seven years in prison for leading and organizing an extensive and illegal prescription distribution conspiracy and a related health care fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Georgia man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud as part of a $1.7 million investment scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Dear Majority Leader McConnell and Minority Leader Schumer...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - Annual winter closures at the Bureau of Land Management’s Emerald Mountain Special Recreation Area outside Steamboat Springs went into effect Dec. 1 to reduce disturbance to wildlife.
