News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Camden County, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge Catherine D. Perry sentenced Terrance Brew to 104 months in prison today. The 24-year-old St. Louis, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to one count of carjacking and one count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Judge Perry sentenced Daquan Sanders, Brew’s 20-year-old co-defendant, to 104 months in September.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that two men have been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote for illegal possession of drugs and firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: KANSAS City, KAN. - A Kansas man pleaded guilty today to armed bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: The Senate yesterday passed bipartisan, bicameral legislation to help communities prepare for and respond to landslides and other natural hazards, sending it to the President’s desk for signature. The Senate first passed S. 529, the National Landslide Preparedness Act , in July, and yesterday unanimously passed a modified version of the bill as H.R. 8810, which the House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Leonel Deleon-Cuellar of Mexico, age 23, with possession of a firearm by an illegal and unlawful alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - Alexander Pridgen, a Greenville man, was charged by Indictment for willfully damaging government property in Greenville during a demonstration over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - This week, two men were sentenced for their roles in robbing a Lanett, Alabama bank, announced U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. On Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, Cordero Jakevion Story, 24, was sentenced to 84 months in prison, and on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, Jacobie Phillips, 27, received a 27-month sentence. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that a complaint has been filed charging Shemelle Isaac with accessory after the fact, possession of stolen property, and unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Wolf Point man on Wednesday admitted assaulting a woman with a hatchet at a residence on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $500,000 grant to the Good Work Network, New Orleans, Louisiana, to create a statewide virtual business training center that will provide resources for small- and minority-owned businesses. The project, to be matched with $135,000 in local funds, is expected to create 80 new jobs, and retain 320 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Justina Maria Holland (36, Winter Springs) - now known as Justina Maria Rummel - has pleaded guilty to 12 counts of wire fraud, 3 counts of mail fraud, 2 counts of access device (credit card) fraud, 2 counts of aggravated identity...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence Boyle sentenced Sydney Crandon, age 24, of Orlando, Florida to 133 months imprisonment followed by a term of 5 years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Karl H. Goss, 72, of Bellevue, Nebraska, was sentenced on Dec. 16, 2020 in federal court in Omaha for Wire Fraud. Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Gross to one year and one day imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, he will begin a 3-year term of supervised release. Gross was also fined $10,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Laura Ricotta, 29, of Buffalo, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, oxycodone, hydrocodone, and amphetamine, was sentenced to time served (approximately 15 months) by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Arizona - The last of twenty-eight defendants charged in two sweeping investigations into the manufacture and distribution of the controlled substance commonly referred to as “spice," a synthetic cannabinoid made with chemicals, was federally sentenced on December 10 in United States District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that RAPHEAL DANCER, 38, of Wallingford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday to possessing unregistered firearms, in violation of the National Firearms Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Laura Ricotta, 29, of Buffalo, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, oxycodone, hydrocodone, and amphetamine, was sentenced to time served (approximately 15 months) by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Previously Robbed the Same Bank; Committed the Bank Robbery While on Supervised Release for a Previous Federal Conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE - The U.S. Department of Justice and Bartell Drug Inc., today resolved allegations that, between July 2016 and August 2020, the pharmacy chain filled invalid prescriptions in violation of the Controlled Substances Act. Under the terms of the settlement, Bartell Drug will pay the government an $800,000 fine. Bartell Drug fully cooperated in the investigation.
