News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Pennsylvania resident has been charged for allegedly kidnapping and killing a woman whom he led to believe was his girlfriend, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - U.S. Chief District Judge Sara Darrow today sentenced Dana Frye, former executive vice president and chief loan officer of the failed Country Bank of Aledo, Ill., to five years in prison, the maximum prison term for conspiring with others to make materially false statements to the Country Bank Board of Directors. Judge Darrow ordered Frye to immediately pay $23.5 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - A former military subcontractor was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 33 months in prison and three years of supervised release for illegally possessing a firearm silencer and equipment that was property of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Law Enforcement Seized Approximately 20 Kilograms of Fentanyl-Enough to Kill More Than 1½ Times the Population of Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ZIMER KALICI, 56, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to two years of probation, the first three months of which Kalici must serve in home confinement, for theft of Social Security benefits.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Canaveral National Seashore will implement prescribed burn operations in the Apollo Beach district (New Smyrna Beach) on Sunday, March 1, 2020. The project area includes seven units for a total area of 1,269 acres. The Apollo district will not open for normal operations on Sunday, the Playalinda Beach...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: An Auburn man was convicted yesterday following a two-day jury trial of possessing a firearm after being convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, NY - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Daniel Paul, 65, of Buffalo, New York, who was convicted of distribution of crack cocaine, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison and 6 years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents arrested six defendants Thursday, charged with various drug trafficking offenses involving crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office has entered into a settlement agreement with Tufts Medical Center to ensure equal access for individuals with disabilities at its facilities in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Jonathan Estrada, age 21, of Denver was sentenced yesterday to serve 96 months (8 years) in federal prison followed by 3 years on supervised release for carjacking and robbery of two gun stores. Estrada appeared at the sentencing hearing in custody and was remanded at its conclusion. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Denver Field Division joined in this announcement.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled “The Airline Passenger Experience: What it Is and What It Can Be." The hearing...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Luis Estrada-Alvarez, 31, a citizen and native of Mexico, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with illegal re-entry after deportation and forcibly assaulting and resisting Deportation Officers causing bodily injury. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Lamont Alvester Johnson, 43, of Washington, D.C., has been found guilty after a jury trial of conspiring to traffic in large quantities of Phencyclidine (PCP), possessing with the intent to distribute large quantities of PCP, possessing a firearm after having previously been convicted of...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement after the Trump Administration failed to provide an election security report to Congress as mandated by law...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jose Mendoza, 32, and Natalie Mendoza, 35, of Medanales, New Mexico, Ryan Rodriguez, 27, of Chamita, New Mexico, Andrea Rodriguez, 28, and Edvardo Carlson, 39, of Espanola, New Mexico, and Bridget Archuleta, 31, of San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico appeared in federal court today for arraignment...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced that on Feb. 27, 2020, a jury found Brian Whitton of Waukesha, Wisconsin, guilty of arson of a commercial business, mail fraud, use of fire to commit another felony offense, and making a false statement to federal law enforcement agent. After a ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Feb. 28, 2020 - Diversicare Health Services, Inc., has agreed to pay $9.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting false claims to Medicare for rehabilitation therapy services that were not reasonable, necessary, or skilled, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Nigerian woman was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay over $377,000 in restitution for leading a conspiracy to import more than five kilograms of cocaine into the United States, as well as to her role in a separate bank fraud scheme, and to making false statements relating to fraudulent claims submitted to Medicaid for reimbursement.
