News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: MARSHALL, Texas - A 41-year-old Hughes Springs, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking crimes in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: OCALA, Fla. - Jeremy Jermaine Willis (37, Ocala) was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl. The court also sentenced co-defendants Gary Eugene Hayes (38, Ocala) and Darren Michael Beatty (30, Ocala) to 15 years each in federal prison, for their involvement in the same conspiracy. All three men pleaded guilty in 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for fentanyl distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ARCADIO DONES, also known as “Gordo," 45, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to fentanyl distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: SENTENCING - DONNA WOODS. On Jan. 30, Donna Woods was sentenced to 7 years and 3 months in federal custody and to paying $337,951.06 in restitution to the Federal Communications Commission for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, and wire fraud. Woods had approved the granting of a federal telecommunications...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of DuBois, Pennsylvania has been sentenced for health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader and Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorneys for the Western and Eastern Districts of Wisconsin, respectively, announced today that their offices have observed a substantial decrease in opioid prescribing among medical providers who received warning letters as part of last year’s opioid initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Quinton Yates, 50, has been sentenced to 188 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and for Possession of an Unregistered Shotgun with a Barrel Less Than 18 Inches. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky.- Wilma Thompson, 41, of London, pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday, before U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, to obtaining a controlled substance through the registration of another and identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Four Detroit-Area Physicians Found Guilty of Health Care Fraud Charges for Role in Over $150 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: A man who sexually exploited children in the Philippines pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) hailed President Donald Trump’s call to action on prescription drug pricing during his State of the Union address. In his address to the nation, Trump recognized Grassley’s leadership on the issue and called on Congress to pass bipartisan...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Abner Peralta and Luis Colon Trafficked in Kilogram-Quantities of Cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: DUBLIN, GA: Eight people have been charged in a 12-count federal indictment alleging a brazen drug-trafficking conspiracy in and around Laurens County.
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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearm and narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: POCATELLO - John R. Godfrey, 52, of Heyburn, Idaho, pleaded guilty to possession of sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Godfrey was indicted by a Pocatello federal grand jury on Feb. 26, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A felon who pleaded guilty to selling a loaded firearm and methamphetamine outside a fast-food restaurant was sentenced today to 10 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 10:00 am in the John...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for fentanyl distribution.
