News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Defendant sought to gain college admissions for five children through bribery and fraud.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Leon Sanchez, 31, of Bosque Farms, New Mexico was sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque on Feb. 5 to one year and one day in prison for child endangerment.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: East St. Louis, Ill.- Mia Lynn Cousett, 33, of Alton, Illinois, pled guilty this morning to 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 41-year-old Allen, Texas man has been sentenced for child pornography 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: 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: Any Victim Correspondence Must Be Received By Feb. 28, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Nestled in the foothills of the Manzano Mountains, at Salinas Pueblo Missions National Historical Park you will encounter a time entrenched with cultural borrowing, conflict and struggles.Its three distinct sites offer a glimpse into a unique time in history.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Providence man, one of twenty-six individuals arrested during an eighteen month Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation into firearms and drug trafficking in and around Providence in 2017 and 2018, was sentenced on Thursday to twenty-four months in federal prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement after colleagues attempted to undermine legitimate oversight by selectively leaking information from investigations...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a one-count indictment charging Mark Rogers, 36, Joseph Way, a/k/a Gus, 34, and Tashara Levans, 35, all of Rochester, NY, with kidnapping of a federal employee. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-Ore.), Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) today released the following statement on the surprise medical billing proposals from the House Education and Labor Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Windber, Pa. has been sentenced in federal court in Johnstown to two years (24 months) in prison and two years’ supervised release for violating conditions of supervised release, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Park officials plan to burn piles of dead vegetation in Salt Valley Wash at Arches National Park beginning the week of February 10th. Burns may occur throughout February, March, and April as conditions allow.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Naimi Haji, 29, and her husband, Abdikadir Miji, 32, both of Omaha, Nebraska, were sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for theft of government property. Miji was sentenced to 8 months in prison and...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: With Narcotics Conspiracy and Firearms Offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Federal charges were filed today against three Wichita men in connection with an armed robbery at a convenience store in Newton, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday charges Dustin Erhardt, age 33, of Beaverton, Ore., with five counts of wire fraud in connection with what the indictment alleges was a scheme to use his position and access as a contractor to defraud a Provo company.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -Raymond Maestas, 43, of Albuquerque, New Mexico pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque on Feb. 4 to charges of possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute heroin, carrying a firearm during and relation to a drug trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR-Special Agent in Charge Douglas A. Leff of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) San Juan Field Office announced the arrest of Nyan Oneil Lopez-Perez.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: FBI Releases New Evidence in Jerry Stuart Investigation.