News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Alfonzo Jamal Lewis has been convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Dear Director Mulvaney: We write to express concern regarding the Trump Administration’s previous attempts to cut funding for infectious disease and pandemic preparedness and response and to urge you to fully fund such efforts in your fiscal year 2021 proposed budget, as the world addresses the current...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Kirsten Sandy, 37, an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Zuni living in Wisconsin, pleaded guilty on Feb. 5 in federal court in Albuquerque to one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Harlon David Prater (28, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to two counts of producing images depicting the sexual abuse of children, and one count of transporting images of sexual abuse of a child. Prater faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, and up to 80 years, in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervised release. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 4, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal court judge today sentenced a Providence man found by the FBI’s Safe Streets Violent Gang Task Force to be in possession of more than 100 grams of fentanyl to five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KEVIN GENIS, 27, of Stamford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A New York man has admitted to robbing a Brunswick bank in October 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced federal charges against five individuals, who are alleged to have operated a drug trafficking organization, in Anderson, Ind. and Indianapolis. The defendants were indicted on charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and marijuana, distribution of methamphetamine and marijuana, and unlawful use of a communication facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas announced that three (3) individuals were sentenced by the United States District Court for Possession with Intent to Distribute More Than 100 Grams of a Mixture or Substance Containing a Detectable Amount of Heroin. The Honorable Judge P.K. Holmes, III presided over the sentencing hearings in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: An owner of an engineering firm, Fazlullah Khan, 58, of Troy, was sentenced yesterday to 132 months as a result of having been convicted by a jury on four counts of bribery, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Nicholas Ferrone, 28, of Utica, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with three counts of bank robbery. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
Release: ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Residents of the Lehigh Valley area will be able to enroll in the Transportation Security Administration’s popular TSA Pre✓® program at Lehigh Valley International Airport from February 17 to 28, where officials will host a temporary “pop-up" enrollment center in the airport terminal.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Abner Peralta 30, and Luis Colon 35, both of Utica, New York, were found guilty of drug trafficking charges yesterday following a five-day jury trial in federal court in Utica, New York, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: MINEOLA, N.Y. -Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced that the leader of MS-13’s Hollywood Clique on Long Island was sentenced today to 24 years to life in prison on murder and conspiracy charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An El Paso, Texas, man, from whom officers seized nearly $500,000 in illegal drug proceeds, pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy that distributed more than 720 kilograms of cocaine in the metropolitan area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Bucklew has sentenced Jermaine Rhoomes (46, St. Petersburg) to four years and nine months in federal prison for trafficking firearms, ammunition, and gun parts to Jamaica, in violation of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. The sentence imposed was the maximum recommended by the United States Sentencing Guidelines.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Terrill Latney, an associate of the Red Stone Gorilla “set" of the Bloods street gang based in Riverhead, pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge A. Kathleen Tomlinson to racketeering, including conspiring to distribute narcotics and participating in the murder of Thomas Lacolla on Nov. 17, 2015.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $64 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA), Critical Components for Coal FIRST Power Plants of the Future.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Deaviea Brown, age 19, was sentenced today to 30 months’ imprisonment to be followed by two years of supervised release. Brown pleaded guilty to a charge of being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition on Nov. 13, 2019. There is no parole in the federal system. The Honorable Richard G. Kopf, Senior United States District Court Judge, presided over the case.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Lead Defendant Sentenced to 324 Months in Federal Prison For Trafficking Crystal Ice Methamphetamine into Virginia from Texas and Indiana.
