News from February 2020
By USDA Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 13, 2020 - Today, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has invested $9 million in four, high-speed broadband infrastructure projects that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for 3,744 rural households, 31 businesses, 41 farms and a critical community facility in Tennessee. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Five Newark men who were members of a street gang known as the “Famous Boyz" have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As part the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California’s strategy to reduce violent crime by focusing on firearms prosecutions, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced that a federal grand jury has returned indictments in the following cases involving illegal firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with the Justice Department, announced the release of the Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (BPSOU) consent decree. This document provides the framework for the continued cleanup of mining-related contamination to protect public health and the environment in Butte and Walkerville, Montana.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Timothy Ray Vance, 54, of Salem, Oregon, was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release for distributing large quantities of methamphetamine throughout Marion County.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - A Sells, Ariz. man and woman were sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez to 80 months and 60 months respectively in prison following a human smuggling investigation led by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) assisted by the Tohono O’odham Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Miguel Alvarez Cervantes, 55, a Mexican national living in Los Molinos, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley, to nine years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - After a three-day trial, and jurors having deliberated less than 40 minutes, a federal jury found Carlos Landeros-Salcedo, 26, guilty of prohibited person (alien) in possession of a firearm, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty verdict today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that three members of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin received sentences for their roles in the theft of a firearm from a residence on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The sentences, imposed by Senior United States District Judge William C. Griesbach, were the result of guilty pleas to the following charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Stole IDs, credit cards, and checks from homes, cars, and mailboxes - victimized two elderly women.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Feb. 10, 2020, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez sentenced Johnson Ortiz, 23, of Sells, to 80 months in prison and Regina Ramon, 29, of Sells, to 60 months, in prison. Both Ortiz and Ramon previously pleaded guilty on September 4, 2019, to their involvement in Harboring Illegal Aliens for Profit, with Ortiz also pleading to a statutory endangerment enhancement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Feb. 13, 2020 - Renauld Clayton, 32, of Chicago Illinois, formerly of Nashville, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to student loan fraud, aggravated identity theft and wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee. Clayton was indicted in May 2019 after an investigation determined that he had fraudulently received and misappropriated $84,500 in student loan payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Bryan G. Vonderahe, 45, of Kirkwood, Missouri, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison, and ordered to pay approximately 3.8 Million Dollars in restitution to his former employer following his conviction for wire fraud. Vonderahe appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee’s Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Subcommittee Chair David Scott and Ranking Member Austin Scott, both of Georgia, issued the following statement Thursday after meeting with financial market regulators from the European Commission (EC) to discuss new amendments to the European Union’s European Market Infrastructure Regulations (EMIR 2.2) that could potentially subject U.S. clearinghouses to regulation within the EU...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bilal Ahmed, 47, of Potomac, Maryland, was sentenced to 71 months’ incarceration on Feb. 10, 2020, having pled guilty to a federal charge of health care fraud stemming from a scheme in which he and others caused the District of Columbia’s Medicaid program to be defrauded out of more...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Freedom, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months’ imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Samuel Arthur Thompson (49, St. Augustine) with receiving and possessing child sex abuse images, possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, failing to register under the Sex Offender Registration...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL WHITE, a leader of a violent street gang known as the “Young Gunnaz," was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his participation in the Young Gunnaz, including an attempted murder of three individuals...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: EL CENTRO, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold a field tour and public meeting of the BLM California Desert District Advisory Council (DAC), consistent with BLM’s commitment to partnerships and public input necessary for managing sustainable, working public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Saint Louis, MO - Johnzell Moorehead, 30, of Saint Louis, MO, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on one count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of assaulting a federal law enforcement officer. Wines appeared today before U.S. District Judge John A. Ross who imposed the sentence.
