News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Woodbridge man was sentenced today to three years in prison and 15 years of supervised release for failing to register as a sex offender after traveling across state lines.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that defendant PRENTISS CRAFT, 29 years of age, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020 by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown to being in receipt of a firearm while under indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Vladislav Victorvic Timoshchuk with attempted transfer of a toxin for use as a weapon, mailing threatening communications, and mailing an injurious article, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Reamonn C. Seaman, 25, of Ord, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for receipt and distribution of child pornography. Seaman was sentenced to 276 months in prison and will also serve 20 years on supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - On Friday, Feb. 21, Justin Deger, 28, of Fresno, pleaded guilty to two counts of access device fraud and one count of possession of stolen mail, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Catherine Verdon, 45, of Middletown Springs, pleaded not guilty yesterday in United States District Court in Burlington to an indictment charging her with making false statements to obtain federal and state program benefit payments. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy released Verdon on conditions pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Ronald Christopher Dressner, 41, of Nicholson, was sentenced on Feb. 21, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 184 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF"). Dresser was also ordered to pay a $7,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced ANTONIO DWAYNE EVANS, 33, of Raeford, NC to 158 months imprisonment followed by 4 years of supervised release.
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: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Versailles, Kentucky man, Danny Wayne Bedwell, 29, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison on Friday, by Chief United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, after previously pleading guilty to trafficking methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Paul Patrick Piper faces federal bank fraud and tax charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Efforts will Focus on Main U.S. Methamphetamine Trafficking Transportation Hubs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Kira Lee Encarnacion, 41, of St. Croix, was sentenced yesterday in U.S District Court to 13 months imprisonment, on one count of Federal Program Theft, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - FBI agents this morning arrested a Santa Monica man on federal charges stemming from a series of distributed denial-of-service - or DDoS - attacks on a website for a candidate who was campaigning for a California congressional seat.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Chinese woman who resides in Canada agreed to plead guilty today in federal court in Boston to using bribery and other forms of fraud to facilitate her son’s admission to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) as a purported soccer recruit.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Edward Douglas Jacome, age 31, of Henryetta, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Felon In Possession Of Firearm And Ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00 or both.
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: LEXINGTON, Ky. - An Alabama man, Maxwell Hayslip, 27, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $20,000 fine on Friday by Chief United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, after previously admitting to robbing five banks by intimidation in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Anne Gronek-Gibbs, a former sales director for the Coca-Cola Company, has been sentenced for embezzling over $750,000 from the company. The defendant ordered luxury goods, tickets, gift cards, first class travel, and luxury hotel accommodations for personal trips, all paid for by the company.
