News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Cumberland County, New Jersey, man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Gunner Scott Young, of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, has admitted to a child pornography charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: Sulphur, Okla.- Chickasaw National Recreation Area will host a holiday open house at the Travertine Nature Center on Friday, December 18th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Come celebrate the coming start of winter and the magic of the holiday season with the National Park Service. Children will have the opportunity to say hello to a certain jolly guest. (Ho! Ho! Ho!).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida- Senior U.S. District Judge John Antoon II today sentenced Michael Bernard Lawson (38, Sarasota) to 10 years in federal prison for distributing cocaine base (“crack cocaine") and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The court also ordered Lawson to forfeit the firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The Chief of Staff to then Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia entered a guilty plea today to charges of extortion, bribery and making false statements.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: Update. On Saturday, Dec. 12, ICE officers arrested Luis Cordon-Guzman, 31, who escaped from Essex County Jail on Dec. 4 while facing pending removal proceedings. Cordon-Guzman, a national of Guatemala, was previously deported from the U.S. and has pending felony charges in Trenton, New Jersey. "As...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: Six men have been charged with stealing millions of airline frequent flier miles, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Arthur Jay Traxler, Jr. (55, Michigan) with one count of attempted online enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity and one count of attempted production of child sexual exploitation...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Melanie K. Pierson (619) 546-7976.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Jose Luis Sanchez-Lule (age 37) to five years in federal prison for possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, and for illegal reentry into the United States after deportation. The court also ordered Sanchez-Lule to forfeit a firearm and ammunition.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
Release: CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Buffalo Niagara International Airport caught a Wyoming County, New York, man with a.32 caliber handgun loaded with six bullets including one in the chamber, in his carry-on bag on Friday, Dec. 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Sussex County, New Jersey, man will make his initial court appearance today on charges of fraudulently obtaining a federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan of over $5 million, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A New York man pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to possessing cocaine base and fentanyl with intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Charles Chandler Smith, 43, of Hattiesburg, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to filing a false tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Internal Revenue Service Acting Special Agent in Charge James Dorsey of the IRS Criminal Investigation’s Atlanta Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Randy Sheltra, 58, of Alburgh, Vermont, was convicted on Dec. 11, 2020, in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, following a six-day trial by jury, of two counts of attempting to persuade, induce, and...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is changing its approach to fight the emerald ash borer (EAB) infestation that has spread through much of the United States. The Agency is publishing a final rule that removes the federal domestic EAB ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Seven defendants have been charged in a conspiracy to deal a large quantity of methamphetamine in the Bowling Green area, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Magdycz, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Boston, announced that JOHN T. PERUGINI, 78, of Waterbury, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today to one count of possession of child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged an immigration detainer on a Salvadoran national serving time for a murder conviction at the California Department of Corrections at Pleasant Valley Prison in Chowchilla, California, Aug. 28, 2013. The request was not honored, and Carlos Morales-Ramirez was released onto the streets Dec. 4.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Keswick man was sentenced today to 22 years in prison for his role in producing images of child sexual abuse and attempting to meet a minor for sex.
