News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Defendant Assisted the Red Stone Gorilla Bloods Gang in Drug Trafficking and Violence on the East End of Long Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Yesterday, the President signed into law the “Temporary Reauthorization and Study of the Emergency Scheduling of Fentanyl Analogues Act." This law is critical to ensuring that law enforcement around the country have the tools they need to fight the deadly opioid epidemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Steve Edwards, 73, and Melanie Edwards, 61, of St. George, Utah, were sentenced in federal court this week by Chief United States District Judge J. Michael Seabright for conspiracy to defraud the IRS and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Steve Edwards was sentenced yesterday to 36 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release. Melanie Edwards was sentenced today to 30 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: FORT VALLEY, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Pearson Farms LLC for safety violations after an employee suffered fatal injuries at the farm's post-harvest operations facility in Fort Valley, Georgia. The farm is facing $128,004 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announced the return of an indictment charging Columbus Donavan Jeffrey (41, Jacksonville) with two counts of producing images depicting the sexual abuse of a child. If convicted on all counts, Jeffrey faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, and up to 60 years, in federal prison. Jeffrey was arrested on Oct. 3, 2019, on related state charges, and is currently detained pending trial.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: MONTE VISTA, COLO - The Bureau of Land Management Front Range Fire and Aviation Management Unit is preparing to conduct a prescribed burn at Blanca Wetlands, approximately 11 miles northeast of Alamosa. This prescribed burn will improve habitat for nesting and migratory waterfowl in the wetlands. As many as 184 acres surrounding six ponds will be burned as part of this operation.
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: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph Harvey, 56, of Forestville, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 96 months in prison and 25 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: TYLER, Texas -A 53-year-old Tyler, Texas woman has been sentenced to federal prison for violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown and FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. DeSarno today.
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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, CA-The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Sacramento Field Office encourages all high school juniors within the office’s 34-county area of responsibility to apply to attend the FBI Teen Academy. All high school juniors-whether enrolled in public, private, charter, or home school-may apply.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, a federal jury convicted 47-year-old State of Texas inmate Scott Coalwell of mailing threatening communications including threats to injure his former defense attorney, a probation officer and the U.S. District Clerk for the Western District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and U.S. Marshal Susan Pamerleau.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: FBI Apprehends Wanted San Joaquin County Fugitive Moises Galvan Gonzales.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Justin Green, Special Agent in Charge, Miami Field Office, United States Food and Drug Administration, Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA-OCI), announced the convictions of three defendants for various offenses relating to an international fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - Two Georgia women involved in a crystal ice methamphetamine conspiracy led by a co-defendant incarcerated in Virginia were each recently sentenced to federal prison. Veronica Martinez, 30, of Doraville, Georgia, and Alison Atkinson, 30, of Grovetown, Georgia, were each sentenced to serve 60 months in federal prison, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Reece Christopher Depew (22, Jacksonville) with distributing images depicting the sexual abuse of young children. Depew faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years, and up to 20 years, in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Laterreon Daron Morrison, 23, of Bossier City, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on February 4, 2020, before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote, to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today announced the distribution of $52.7 million in historic preservation grants for states, territories, and partnering nations, and $13.7 million in historic preservation grants to 194 tribal historic preservation offices.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Karar Alfadhili, a resident of Westland, Michigan, was indicted yesterday on three counts of knowingly and willfully making and subscribing, under penalties of perjury, false Forms 1040 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return (Form 1040) for tax years 2013, 2014, and 2015 in violation of the Internal Revenue Code, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
