News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JAVIER ENRIQUE DA SILVA ROJAS (the “defendant" or “DA SILVA") pled guilty in White Plains federal court to kidnapping Valerie Reyes (the “Victim") in New Rochelle, New York, and unlawfully transporting...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Delshawn K. Trueheart, 43, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to production of child pornography. Production of child pornography carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Benjamin Ross, 28, of Youngstown, Ohio, was sentenced for his role in a scheme to distribute fentanyl pills, which were pressed, colored and stamped to look like 30 milligram oxycodone hydrochloride pills. Judge John R. Adams sentenced Ross to 144 months of incarceration, to be followed by ten years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Frank Capri, 52, of Scottsdale, Arizona, and his mother Debbie Corvo, 68, of Cave Creek, Arizona, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michelle H. Burns following their arrest earlier today. On Jan. 28, 2020, a federal grand jury returned a 16-count indictment charging Capri, Corvo...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Ocean County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for distributing images and videos of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Acting Director Matthew T. Albence has repeatedly expressed concerns about how state or local policies limiting cooperation with ICE can lead to more crime. According to data recently released from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, in...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: NORTH BEND, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management Coos Bay District sold 2.34 million board feet of timber at an oral auction on Friday, January 31. The timber, located on Oregon and California Railroad Revested (O&C) Lands in Douglas County, Ore., sold for $239,202.90.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Owners of Greensboro Temporary Staffing Firms Plead Guilty to Employment Tax Fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Committee on Natural Resources markup previously scheduled for Feb. 6, where the Committee was set to vote on granting Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) subpoena authority, has been moved to the morning of Feb. 12 due to the National Prayer Breakfast. Natural Resources is one of only a few committees in the House not to grant the chair such authority automatically at the beginning of each Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Hampton man was sentenced today to over four years in prison for defrauding Medicaid out of approximately $109,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: United States District Judge Victoria A. Roberts sentenced convicted former Wayne County airport official, James Warner, 52, of Commerce Township, to 10 years’ imprisonment today. A federal jury convicted Warner last June of ten counts of conspiracy, federal program bribery, federal program theft, money...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Kenneth Sanders, age 39, of Mishawaka, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for conspiracy to distribute over 500 grams of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine and over 100 grams of a mixture or substance containing heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Dennis A. Toomer, 37, of Valparaiso, Florida, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison after having previously pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The sentence was announced today by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: For Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and Heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Montana Broker Found Guilty in Multimillion-Dollar Fraud Scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the U.S.-Kenya trade relationship after meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge William F. Jung today sentenced Jordan Rodriguez (Bradenton, 26) to, among other things, three terms of life imprisonment. Rodriguez’s co-defendants, Alfonzo Churchwell (Bradenton, 32) and Andrew Thompson (Bradenton, 25) were also sentenced to multiple life terms ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Alleges Conditions at South Carolina’s Broad River Road Complex Violate the Constitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Oxford, MS - The United States has intervened in a whistleblower suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi against Mitias Orthopaedics, PLLC. Mitias provides orthopedic care in New Albany, MS.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against Julio Francisco Lindo, 30, of Honduras, and Maria Yajaira Urias-Cordova, 26, of El Salvador, both illegally present in the United States, charging them with one count of conspiracy to transport illegal aliens and nine counts of illegal alien transportation, announced David C. Joseph, United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana.
