News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Wilmington has returned indictments charging OMAR LABRA-TREJO, age 50, of Mexico, and JOSE GUILLERMO LEIVA-GALVAN, age 34, of Honduras, with Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: DOVER, Del. - Today, at Delaware's first annual Youth Environmental Summit (YES!) hosted at the Del Tech Conference Center, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), encouraged a packed room of 150 Delaware students to continue raising awareness, creating momentum and leading the climate movement
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Nigerian woman was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay over $377,000 in restitution for leading a conspiracy to import more than five kilograms of cocaine into the United States, as well as to her role in a separate bank fraud scheme, and to making false statements relating to fraudulent claims submitted to Medicaid for reimbursement.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, this week continued his efforts to ensure the Trump Administration is responding appropriately to the global Coronavirus outbreak.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: ST. CLOUD, Minn. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ National Response Team, the St. Cloud Fire Department, St. Cloud Police Department and the Minnesota State Fire Marshal’s Office collectively made the determination today, Feb. 29, classifying the fire that destroyed the Press Bar and Parlor as incendiary, an intentionally set fire.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) react to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) C-band auction order.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Denis Barrera-Palma, 25, of Mendota, pleaded guilty today to assault with a deadly weapon in aid of racketeering and conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Seattle - A couple who resided on the Upper Skagit Indian Reservation pleaded guilty today and yesterday to conspiracy to distribute heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. RYAN ERIC FLETCHER, 30, pleaded guilty on Feb. 27, 2020, and Upper Skagit member LINNETTE TORRES, 29, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Both face up to twenty years in prison when sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik on May 15, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Poca, West Virginia man entered a guilty plea to mail fraud for his role in a scheme to defraud Toyota of more than $4 million, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Stanley Clark, 67, faces up to 20 years of incarceration when he is scheduled to be sentenced on May 28, 2020. He will also be required to pay restitution to Toyota.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on Feb. 24, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that yesterday, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, sentenced CHRISTOPHER THOMAS WARD, 37, of Cary, NC to 70 months imprisonment, followed by a ten year term of supervised release. WARD pled guilty pursuant to a plea agreement on Sept. 25, 2019 to one count of receipt of child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BALTIMORE - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Rody L. Bowden, age 41, of Prince George’s County, Maryland, to 22 years in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, on the charge of sex trafficking of a minor. Bowden was a registered sex offender at the time of the offense and will be required to continue to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned an indictment Thursday afternoon charging a Price, Utah, resident with one count of tax evasion and eight counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false/fraudulent documents. At the time of the alleged crimes, he lived in Draper and Bluffdale.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former Vice President of Investor Relations for PixarBio Corp., a Boston-based biotech company, was sentenced yesterday on securities fraud charges in connection with a scheme to manipulate trading in the company’s shares and obstruction of proceedings before the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Previously Convicted Sex Offender Paid a 14-Year-Old Girl for Sex, and Produced a Video of the Victim Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two defendants accused of running a large-scale cross-country drug trafficking organization have pleaded guilty to federal narcotics and firearm charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS- The Las Vegas Field Office announces the temporary closure of certain public lands under its administration from March 6 through March 7, 2020. This action is being taken to minimize the risk of potential collisions with spectators and racers running the 2020 Mint 400.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - A former military subcontractor was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 33 months in prison and three years of supervised release for illegally possessing a firearm silencer and equipment that was property of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Ware man was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield on sex trafficking and sexual exploitation charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - On Wednesday, Feb. 26, the Anti Defamation League (ADL) honored a team of local, state, and federal law enforcement partners, who worked together to prosecute James Fields Jr., the white supremacist who was convicted of more than two-dozen hate crimes for a car attack in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017, with ADL SHIELD Awards during the group’s 10th Annual awards ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
