News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas resident who admitted to committing nine bank robberies after escaping from a correctional facility was sentenced today to 15 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Rolland Kwame Owens, of Steubenville, Ohio, has admitted to his role in a cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: Octave Chanute, the renowned civil engineer and flight pioneer, is known by many in Northwest Indiana as the region's icon of innovation. Now, a feature documentary is telling the story of the influential flight pioneer whose experiments in the Indiana Dunes propelled the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of WILLIAM KYLE SUTOR III, 37, to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. SUTOR, who was charged by felony Information on Dec. 30, 2019, entered his plea today before Judge Nancy E. Brasel in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota. SUTOR will be sentenced at a later date.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: NAPLES, FL - After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Fort Myers Division, has sentenced Stalin Rene Barahona - former owner of the now-dissolved SB Framing Services Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, a consent judgment and permanent injunction was entered requiring a North Carolina pharmacy, FARMVILLE DISCOUNT DRUG, INC., as well as its owner and pharmacist-in-charge, ROBERT L. CROCKER, to pay $600,000.00...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - A Phoenix-area resident, who is alleged to have been the leader of a group of Al-Qaeda terrorists in Al-Fallujah, Iraq, appeared Friday afternoon before a federal magistrate judge in Phoenix in connection with proceedings to extradite him to the Republic of Iraq. The arrest was executed...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Illinois man today admitted conspiring to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and 500 grams or more of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Kidnapping of a Minor by a Registered Sex Offender and Transportation of a Minor with Intent to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity by a Registered Sex Offender.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) jointly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to partner on a new Energy Sector Pathfinder initiative. The goals of this initiative are to advance information sharing, improve training and education to understand systemic risks, and develop joint operational preparedness and response activities to cybersecurity threats.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: FORT PIERCE, Florida, Feb. 3, 2020-Dogs specially trained by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have proven to be the most efficient way to detect huanglongbing-also known as citrus greening-according to a paper just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: Four Trumbull County men convicted in an ATF investigation have been sentenced in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Eric Friccero, 29, of Arbuckle, pleaded guilty today to possessing with intent to distribute a controlled substance, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - Two defendants charged in relation to a more than $40 million securities fraud “pump and dump" conspiracy have now been ordered to prison, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 130,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to Egypt during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas resident who admitted to committing nine bank robberies after escaping from a correctional facility was sentenced today to 15 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Joseph Brice, Jr. (26, Bradenton) has pleaded guilty to distributing heroin and fentanyl, and to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former chairman of the board for the Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist, of Los Angeles pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges that he stole more than $11 million in church money via bank accounts for phony companies and tried to cover his tracks by impersonating a real estate developer.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
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By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Illinois man today admitted conspiring to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and 500 grams or more of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Jesus Henoc Castaneda Soberanis, 25, of Chicago, Illinois, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton in Newark...
