News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Bangor, Maine: A Waterville man was sentenced today in federal court in Bangor for possessing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Julan Morrison, aka “Weez," age 38, of Hudson, New York, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his involvement in a crack cocaine distribution ring that operated in Columbia County.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Mikal Jones, age 22, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on March 4, 2020, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Mark Manigault, 41, of Philadelphia, PA was convicted at trial of being a felon in possession of a firearm, arising from his illegal possession of a 9mm pistol, loaded with 12 live rounds of ammunition.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Karen Cichy, a plant geneticist with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in East Lansing, Michigan, needs your help.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Departamento de Justicia. Office of Public Affairs. PARA DIVULGACION INMEDIATA. Jueves, 6 de febrero de 2020. Hombre de Tejas acusado de delitos federales de odio y delitos relacionados con armas de fuego en conexión con el tiroteo masivo del 3 de agosto del 2019 en El Paso. Un gran jurado federal en El...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Senior United States District Judge Judith C. Herrera sentenced Tyrone Coriz, 49, of San Felipe Pueblo, New Mexico, in federal court in Albuquerque today to life imprisonment for aggravated sexual abuse of a child in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division announced today that it has opened an investigation into conditions of confinement in four of Mississippi’s prisons. The investigation will examine conditions at the Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman), Southern Mississippi Correctional...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Kevin Ernest Lewis, 31, of Albuquerque, New Mexico pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque on Feb. 6 to one count of assault of a minor resulting in substantial bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Arshad Nazir, age 55, of Ticonderoga, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 1 year and 1 day in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for conspiring to defraud Medicaid, and conspiring to pay bribes and kickbacks to Medicaid beneficiaries who used his medical transportation service.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $7.4 million grant to Public Utility District No. 1 of Skamania County, Washington, to upgrade an electrical power substation to support the energy needs...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Twin Falls, Idaho- BLM Twin Falls District Fire Management Safety and Training Officer Clay Stephens hailed back to his roots when he accepted a 30-day fire assignment in Australia. “I was born in Australia, so I was excited to return- nervous too, considering the magnitude of the fire and the conditions we would be facing," said Stephens.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Lied About Assisting a Member of the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force to Plant a Gun at the Scene of an Arrest.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: The 35th Yosemite Renaissance Art Exhibit will be on display at the Yosemite Museum Gallery from Saturday, February 22 through Sunday, May 3, 2020. The exhibit features artworks inspired by Yosemite and California’s Sierra Nevada, and includes photography, painting, sculptures, textiles and more. This year, 70 works were selected from 811 entries.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Edward Stinson, 30, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to 360 months’ imprisonment and five years’ supervised release by United States District Court Judge Paul S. Diamond for leading the Stinson Drug Trafficking Group, which sold crack cocaine in and around the Norman Blumberg Apartment Complex in North Philadelphia from about 2010 through 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Two Hampton men pleaded guilty today to their respective roles in a multi-kilogram drug trafficking conspiracy that operated in the peninsula area of the Hampton Roads.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Julan Morrison, aka “Weez," age 38, of Hudson, New York, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his involvement in a crack cocaine distribution ring that operated in Columbia County.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Plum Borough, PA, has been sentenced in federal court today to 10 years (120 months) of imprisonment on his conviction for violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron today sentenced Danny James McLaughlin (59, Littleton, CO) to life in federal prison for using interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire and for enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity. The court also ordered McLaughlin to pay a $300,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
