News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Harrisburg, PA - Today, U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Richard Eugene Schmittel - a 29-year old Harrisburg man.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Ranking Member Mark Meadows (R-NC) from today’s Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Animals in Disasters":
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Rashad Nashid, age 39, was sentenced on Feb. 10, 2020 to 150 months in jail by Judge William K. Sessions III in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont. Nashid had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Judge Sessions also imposed a three-year period of supervised release to be served after Nashid completes his jail sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that KEITH ORLEAN was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 32 months in prison for participating in a scheme to use false statements to promote and sell stock in his company. ORLEAN pled guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Everett had a prior robbery conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to two firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Mark Triolo, 47, was sentenced on Feb. 11, 2020 to 75 months in jail by Judge Christina Reiss in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont. Triolo had previously pleaded guilty to three counts of robbery. Judge Reiss also imposed a three-year period of supervised release to be served after Triolo completes his jail sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted 15 defendants on federal racketeering and drug conspiracy charges at the Jessup Correctional Institution (JCI), including correctional officers, inmates, and outside “facilitators," for allegedly paying bribes to correctional officers to smuggle...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: In Austin this afternoon, a federal judge sentenced a Nigerian National formerly residing in Houston to 135 months in federal prison for his role in laundering millions derived from Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), San Antonio; and, Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Mason Binion, 32, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty after a jury trial of first-degree murder while armed, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Shea and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: A Lewiston woman was sentenced today in federal court in Portland for conspiring to commit health care fraud, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Thomas Holmes has been sentenced to federal prison for preparing and filing hundreds of fraudulent federal tax returns for his clients. Holmes was the owner of TKO Tax Pros, a tax preparation business in Austell, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A new round of drugs laced with deadly fentanyl is causing overdoses in Kansas, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Jonathan R. Moore, a/k/a “J-Mo," 34, of Carbondale, Illinois, and Elijah S. Lacy, a/k/a “E," 35, of.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Columbia, S.C. - 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: TULSA, Okla. - A man who believed he was communicating online with a 13-year-old girl but in reality was messaging law enforcement officers was sentenced today in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award Recipient Shannon Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Feb. 11, 2020, Roberto Torner, age 47, of Freeland, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 270 months’ imprisonment and five years of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for drug trafficking, firearms, and explosives offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX - A local man was sentenced Feb. 12 to 12 years in the Arizona Department of Corrections for sexual exploitation of a minor as a result of an investigation lead by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
