News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Tacoma, Washington - A former U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 15 years in prison for production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. JOHN F. RINDT, 50, was previously sentenced to ten years in prison by a military tribunal for the same conduct. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Bryan ordered the 15-year sentence to run concurrent to the military prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Jeremy Joel López, 20, from Orocovis, Puerto Rico, was arrested for coercion and enticement of a minor, transfer of obscene material and receipt of child pornography, following an investigation by the FBI Ponce Office and the Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, the Police...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: PHENIX CITY, AL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Jaime Martinez Hernandez - a residential framing contractor based in Phenix City, Alabama - for exposing employees to fall and struck-by hazards at two Alabama worksites. The contractor faces $240,880 in penalties.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Dear Acting Secretary Wolf: On Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, the Department of Justice announced the arrest in Arizona of Ali Yousef Ahmed Al-Nouri, an alleged former leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq.[1] The Government of Iraq requested Al-Nouri’s arrest and extradition based on charges of premeditated murder...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Freeport, New York, man today admitted participating in a conspiracy to carry out a $9 million scheme to use bogus information and simultaneous loan applications at multiple banks to fraudulently obtain home equity lines of credit, a scheme known as “shotgunning," U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Jeremy Joel López, 20, from Orocovis, Puerto Rico, was arrested for coercion and enticement of a minor, transfer of obscene material and receipt of child pornography, following an investigation by the FBI Ponce Office and the Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, the Police...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Lawrence Allen Keplinger, of Lahmansville, West Virginia, was indicted this week on methamphetamine distribution and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man previously convicted of multiple felonies was found guilty in federal court of being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: West Tennessee Psychiatrist Found Guilty of Unlawfully Distributing Opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDRES JACOME RODRIGUEZ, 42, a citizen of Mexico last residing in Danbury, was sentenced today U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 22 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jamie Allen Butcher, of Shinnston, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 65 months incarceration for a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury has indicted a Paterson, New Jersey, man for distributing a quantity of heroin and fentanyl that led to the overdose death of a New Jersey resident, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Francisco Alcantar-Miranda, aka Paquin, 31, of Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to manufacture, to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Deputy United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen announced that Matt “Mack" Jones, 37, of Bensalem, PA, was sentenced to 240 months’ imprisonment and eight years’ supervised release by Senior United States District Court Judge R. Barclay Surrick. Jones was convicted at trial in October 2019 on charges of distribution of heroin and possession of firearms by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that a Jamaican national living in Brooklyn, New York was convicted late last week for his role in a lottery scheme that targeted an elderly woman from Estes Park. After a four-day jury trial in federal court in Denver, Leonard Luton, age 43, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and eight counts of aiding and abetting mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Used Employer's Funds to Buy Cell Phones, Sold Them Online for Personal Profit.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: CLAXTON, Ga., Feb. 21, 2020 - Today, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced a $5 million investment in two, high-speed broadband infrastructure projects that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for 1,221 rural households, 32 pre-subscribed businesses and 20 pre-subscribed farms in McIntosh...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man previously convicted of multiple felonies was found guilty in federal court of being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: DALLAS - A husband and wife from Big Spring, Texas, were sentenced Friday to a combined 140 years in prison for crimes against multiple children.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
