News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: On February 7, 2020, United States Attorney Christina E. Nolan announced the results of a multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional law enforcement effort that focused on drug trafficking in Rutland, Vermont and the surrounding area. During the months-long operation conducted by federal, state, local, and county...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: In Del Rio on Wednesday, February 5, 2020, a federal judge sentenced 40-year-old Bryan Torres, aka “Doughboy," of Houston to 20 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his role in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, Drug Enforcement...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
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: SAVANNAH, GA: A South Carolina man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for picking up a Savannah runaway and taking her across state lines for sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: BURLINGTON, Vt. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Christina E. Nolan announced the results of a multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional law enforcement effort that focused on drug trafficking in Rutland, Vermont and the surrounding area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Cambridge man was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston with firearms trafficking related to six separate sales. In addition, the defendant is also charged with the sale of crack cocaine.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Dina Titus (D-NV) announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “Animals in Disasters." ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man who threatened a bank teller as he passed a note demanding cash is facing up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty on Thursday in a bank robbery that netted him $568.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Greensburg, PA, has been sentenced to 41 months’ imprisonment, 3 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $15,000 fine after his conviction for violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Sterling man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin that led to at least two fatal overdoses and one non-fatal overdose.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - The former national president of the not-for-profit organization Project Linus, Carol Babbitt, has been indicted on charges that she allegedly took more than $400,000 from the charity, when it was based in McLean County, Ill. The grand jury indicted Babbitt, 60, currently of Asheville, N.C. on Jan. 22, 2020, and the indictment remained sealed until Babbitt was arrested on Feb. 6, in Asheville.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a fugitive alien to El Salvador on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, where he is wanted for gang membership. He is a member of the Mara Salvatrucha-MS13 transnational gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Anthony McIntyre, 37, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and who subsequently pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a handgun and ammunition, was sentenced to serve 86 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The National Park Service is offering an opportunity to community members to collect wood rounds piled in a pre-designated area with value as firewood or for other uses. A limited number of households (approximately 10) who reside within a 50-mile drive of Bar Harbor, Maine will be...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Kenneth Ray Manzanares, 42, of Santa Clara, Utah, pleaded guilty to one count of murder in the second degree for the July 2017 killing of his wife, Kristy Manzanares, onboard the cruise ship Emerald Princess in the U.S. Territorial Waters outside Southeast Alaska.
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: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jorge Maldonado, age 59, Joel Maldonado, age 23, and Jose Flores, age 58, all of Harrisburg, were indicted on February 5, 2020, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Lexington resident was sentenced on February 6, 2020, in federal court in Greensboro for knowingly possessing a firearm after previously being convicted of a felony, announced United States Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Rose Beth Litzky (33, Palm Bay) to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring to sexually exploit children, sexually exploiting children, and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Raison Holt, 25, of Buffalo, NY, with high speed flight from border checkpoint, and failure to present vehicle for inspection. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
