News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department announced that the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) has released over $500 million in grant solicitations under the COPS Hiring Program (CHP) and several other grant programs that advance community policing, keep school students safe and promote the health and safety of our nation’s law enforcement officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jamar Tillman, 36, of Washington, D.C., was convicted on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, by Judge Neil E. Kravitz of the Superior Court of the District of the Columbia for assaulting seven different female victims in less than an hour, including sexual assaults against six of those victims, U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Shea announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Generic Drug Executive Indicted on Antitrust and False Statement Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Todd Jason Erwin, of White Post, Virginia, was sentenced today to 33 months incarceration for his involvement in a drug distribution conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 31-year-old Mexican national has admitted to conspiring with others to import approximately 25 kilograms of 100% pure meth from Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former chiropractor who was on a federal “Most Wanted" list of fugitives was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for his role in a $15 million Medicare fraud scheme in which claims were submitted for physical therapy services that either were not reimbursable or were not provided.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, woman was sentenced in federal court today for distributing methamphetamine and illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man was sentenced today to over 21 years in prison for his role in a large-scale heroin trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Donnie Smith, 40, Abid Stevens, 39, and Maurice Quinn, 41, all of Philadelphia, PA were convicted at trial of Hobbs Act robbery and carrying and using a firearm during the commission of a federal crime. The charges stem from an armed robbery of a corner grocery store in East Mount Airy in Philadelphia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - The 24-year-old man who allegedly shot two people in December 2019 is expected to appear in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - Keisha Pelote, 33, of Manchester, Kentucky, pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday, before U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, to introduction of contraband to an inmate in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: ‘I assume you’re here because of my swastika flag,’ defendant says in newly released video.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of 63 months to be followed by 5 years of supervised release on his conviction of Possession of Material Depicting the Sexual Exploitation of Minors, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Knoxville, Tenn. - On February 4, 2020, George Robert Everhart, 31, of Maryville, was sentenced by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, in the United States District Court at Knoxville. Everhart will serve 262 months in federal prison for producing and possessing child pornography. Following his imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man admitted on Monday to participating in a conspiracy to defraud area banks by depositing bogus checks and then, working with others, to quickly withdraw the funds before banks discovered that the checks were fraudulent.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Brazilian national, in the country illegally and wanted in Brazil for homicide, was arrested last week during enforcement efforts conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in New Jersey, targeting at-large criminal aliens, illegal reentrants and other immigration violators.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Mario D. Heatly (39, St. Petersburg) to nine years and four months years in federal prison for possessing 500 grams or more of cocaine with the intent to distribute it.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-Theron Gilbert Gerber, 36, a resident of Coos Bay, Oregon, was sentenced to five years in federal prison followed by a four-year term of supervised release for distributing methamphetamine and unlawfully possessing sawed-off shotguns.
