News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Thomas Critten, age 30, of Jersey City, New Jersey, pled guilty today to possession with the intent to distribute 104 grams of crack cocaine in St. Lawrence County.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Law enforcement this morning arrested 11 defendants charged in a federal grand jury indictment alleging they participated in a long-running drug trafficking operation that distributed kilograms of heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine from multiple locations in Los Angeles County, including a storefront in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of northeast Los Angeles.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jack Carl Rice, of Elkins, West Virginia, has admitted to a child pornography charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - William Harrell, age 58, of Ithaca, New York, pled guilty yesterday to filing a false tax return, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Jonathan Larsen, Special Agent in Charge of Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, New York Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - Richard Simpson, 33, of Danville, Kentucky, pled guilty in federal court on Wednesday, before U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove, and admitted that he distributed heroin and was illegally in possession of a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Boston - A Dominican national residing in Boston pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to false representation of a Social Security number.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Today the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah announced a settlement agreement with Utah State University (“USU" or the “University") to ensure the University responds adequately to sexual harassment, including sexual assault, of students in its education programs and activities.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failing to meet their contractual obligations...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Democratic staff released an analysis of President Trump's proposed Fiscal Year 2021 Budget. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued the following statement concerning the proposed budget...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced today that Glenn Quanta Pernell, 41, and Joseph Umphlett, Sr., 39, both inmates in the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC), have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in separate major drug trafficking rings run from inside prison walls using contraband cell phones.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JERMAINE MYRIE was sentenced today to 135 months in prison for sex trafficking of a minor female. MYRIE was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kimba M. Wood, before whom he previously pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a minor. As part of his plea, MYRIE acknowledged that he trafficked a minor female.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 22 Kentucky counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Boyd, Boyle, Bracken, Breckinridge, Carter, Casey, Daviess, Garrard, Greenup, Hancock, Henderson, Laurel, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Mason, Meade, Mercer, Ohio, Robertson, Rowan, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Jamar Kaleel Pettway, 23, of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Pettway pleaded guilty to the charge in November of 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Daniel Lowell, 36, of Pueblo, Colorado was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico to more than 37 years (449 months) in prison for carjacking resulting in death and other offenses arising from a deadly crime spree near Las Cruces in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020, James F. Welburn, a resident of Columbus, Georgia and the former owner of American Truck Driving Academy, located in Lee County, Alabama, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bribery in relation to federal programs, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. and Regional Special Agent-In-Charge Todd Damiani, with the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that David Delaney, age 29, of Golden, Colorado, was sentenced to serve 120 months (10 years) in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release for possessing images of child pornography. Delaney was also ordered pay $3,000 in restitution...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) spoke on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 2546, a package of partisan lands bills from House Democrats that will worsen America’s wildfire crisis. If enacted into law, H.R. 2546 will unquestionably lead to greater catastrophic wildfire risk, military readiness burdens, and other negative impacts on the rural communities who live closest to these public lands and American taxpayers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Feb. 10, 2020, the Honorable Lynn Adelman sentenced Tedmund Blankschein (age: 51) to 15 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit tax fraud. Blankschein was also ordered to pay $5.4 million in restitution to the IRS, joint and several with his co-conspirator, Albert Golant, aka “Alex Golant.".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, during the markup of H.Res. 694, "Recognizing the Importance of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Laws Derived Therefrom"...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Anthony Ahn Le, 21, of Daphne, Alabama, was sentenced today to 121 months on three federal charges relating to drugs and guns. In July of 2019, Le entered a guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, and two counts of using, carrying or possessing a firearm during or in relation to a drug trafficking felony.
