News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - An Afghan man was convicted Friday, by a federal jury sitting in Lexington, of conspiring to commit kidnapping and murder-for-hire, targeting a victim and his minor son.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man today admitted participating in a conspiracy to pay and accept kickbacks in exchange for medically unnecessary prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: RENO, Nev. - The lead defendant in a large drug trafficking ring was sentenced today to 14 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury in Atlanta returned an indictment last week charging four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with hacking into the computer systems of the credit reporting agency Equifax and stealing Americans’ personal data and Equifax’s valuable trade secrets.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI Arrests Suspect in Ramah Navajo Reservation Assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: Bismarck - United States Attorney Drew H. Wrigley announced that on Feb. 10, 2020 Richard Valenzuela Velasquez made his initial appearance and was arraigned before Magistrate Judge Clare R. Hochhalter on the charges of Failure to Update Sex Offender Registration. The trial has been scheduled for March 31, 2020 before District Judge Daniel M. Traynor.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: Queens, N.Y. - “Exploring Gateway," a photography exhibit capturing the “locations, worlds and points of time" at Gateway National Recreation Area will open on Sunday, Feb. 16 at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Broad Channel.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: Worked Illegally in United States Using Someone Else’s Social Security Number.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Conor Climo, 23, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty today to one count of possession of an unregistered firearm - specifically, the component parts of a destructive device.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: Bismarck - United States Attorney Drew H. Wrigley announced that on Feb. 10, 2020 Leonard Barton Higdon made his initial appearance and was arraigned before Magistrate Judge Clare R. Hochhalter on the charges of Failure of Registered Sex Offender to Report International Travel. The trial has been scheduled for March 31, 2020 before Senior Judge Daniel L. Hovland.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: Gulf Breeze, Fla. - Gulf Islands National Seashore has released the annual Superintendent’s Compendium for 2020. The compendium is a comprehensive listing of how federal regulations and policies are implemented at the national seashore. Each year the park management team reviews the compendium and makes changes based on changing conditions, operations, community and visitor comments received throughout the year, and resource issues.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This week, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, along with the Chairmen of the Subcommittees on Government Operations, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Economic and Consumer Policy, and Environment, held an in-depth, two-day series of four hearings to examine the negative effects of the Trump Administration’s proposals related to children’s poverty, housing, hunger, and health.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar today sentenced MS-13 gang member Carlos Alas Brizuela, a/k/a “Truco" and “Stewie," age 29, to 32 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, on a federal racketeering charge related to his participation in a violent racketeering conspiracy, specifically MS-13, including two murders, two attempted murders, and a kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A member of a drug-trafficking organization today admitted her role in a conspiracy to distribute significant amounts of illegal drugs in Camden, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Southern California Edison has paid $900,000 to resolve the United States’ claim for damages resulting from a 2014 wildfire that burned more than 4,392 acres, including Forest Service lands in Kern County, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: Bismarck - United States Attorney Drew H. Wrigley announced that on Feb. 10, 2020, Juan Ramon Maisonet, appeared before United States Magistrate Judge Clare Hochhalter at initial appearance and arraignment hearings. The United States District Court for the District of North Dakota unsealed an Indictment ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Spearfish, South Dakota, man convicted of five counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse and three counts of Sexual Abuse of a Minor following a week-long jury trial in September 2019 in Rapid City, South Dakota, was sentenced on Feb. 10, 2020, by Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: Local media are invited to meet Bureau of Land Management wildland firefighters Kris Bruington and Farron Kunkel on Thursday, Feb. 13 at the BLM Idaho Falls District Office from 10:30-11:30 a.m. The two Idaho Falls District firefighters recently returned from fighting the Australian bushfires.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Walnut man was sentenced today to 168 months in federal prison for orchestrating a $2 million armed robbery of a commercial marijuana warehouse where over half a ton of marijuana was stolen with the help of a corrupt Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that RANDY JONAL SCHENCK (a/k/a RuRu, a/k/a “Shaq"), age 38, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged on February 7, 2020 by a federal grand jury in a 12-count Indictment with interstate transportation and use of an interstate facility...
