News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Lois Soito, 60, of Horseshoe Bend, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for wire fraud U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Soito to serve three years of supervised release following her release from prison and to pay $1,483,963.82 in restitution. Soito pleaded guilty on Nov. 13, 2019.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Feb. 12, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision with Salvatore Anthony DiMaria (DiMaria) and ADD Enterprises Inc. (ADD) of Dix Hill, N.Y., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Buffalo National River announces today that the Boxley Valley Draft Comprehensive Area Plan and Environmental Assessment (Draft Plan) will be available for public review and comment beginning on February 24th, 2020. There will be two public open house meetings regarding the plan, and it may be reviewed online at.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN -Artavius Burnett, 21, has been sentenced to 180 months in federal prison for the armed robbery of two businesses, theft from a Federal Firearms Licensee, the disposing and selling of stolen firearms, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: (HOUSTON), TX-Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Perrye K. Turner announced Tim Miller would receive the 2019 FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award. Mr. Miller, whose only daughter was abducted and murdered in 1984 in Galveston County, founded Texas EquuSearch in August 2000. Since forming the volunteer-based, nonprofit organization, Tim Miller has spent countless hours conducting horse-mounted searches and recovering lost and missing persons.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A former Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) employee pleaded guilty today to his role in a seven-year bribery conspiracy involving the DMV’s Virginia Rider Training Program (VRTP).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Kelvin Watkins, 43, of Jackson, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III to 10 years in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley with the Drug Enforcement Administration. Watkins was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Federal prosecution against felons and violent offenders with guns in the Eastern District of Michigan increased 10% in 2019. The strong partnership we have with our state and local law enforcement agencies, particularly the Detroit Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Federal prosecution against felons and violent offenders with guns in the Eastern District of Michigan increased 10% in 2019. The strong partnership we have with our state and local law enforcement agencies, particularly the Detroit Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - A Dayton registered sex offender was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 720 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for producing child pornography through the sexual abuse of two toddlers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Led Law Enforcement on High-Speed Chase That Injured Trooper.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell Coleman announced today the full-time addition of Raymond Dykie McGee as an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Paducah Branch Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Manuel Felix-Rivera, 34, of Stockton, was sentenced today to seven years and three months in prison for conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell Coleman announced today the full-time addition of Raymond Dykie McGee as an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Paducah Branch Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI Offers up to $5,000 Reward in Red Rock, New Mexico Man's Death.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Newark police officer was found guilty by a federal jury today of conspiring to defraud the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation (NWCDC) and giving kickbacks to its former executive director, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A former assistant basketball coach at Stonechild College on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation was arraigned today on an indictment accusing him of crimes involving sexual exploitation of a child, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, a former Regions Bank employee was sentenced to 37 months in prison for theft of funds, announced Louis V. Franklin, Sr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. After completing his prison sentence, he will be on supervised release for three years.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have developed a way to retrofit the transmission electron microscope - a long-standing scientific workhorse for making crisp microscopic images - so that it can also create high-quality movies of super-fast...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO - The Drug Enforcement Administration San Diego Field Division is announcing the RxAbuse Tip Line for the public to report suspicious, fraudulent, and illegal pharmaceutical activities. Tips can include information about doctors or pharmacists who are illegally dispensing medications, as well as information about people who are doctor shopping or pill seeking for illegal purposes.
