News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO - The Drug Enforcement Administration San Diego Field Division urges practitioners and members of the public to be cautious of telephone calls from criminals posing as DEA employees threatening arrest and prosecution for supposed violations of federal drug laws or involvement in drug-trafficking activities.
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 USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 135,000 metric tons of soybean cake and meal for delivery to the Philippines during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A Romanian man pled guilty on Wednesday to multiple counts of access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations Assistant Special Agent in Charge James G. Hernandez.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Rashaun Flemming, age 31, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Feb. 27, 2020, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on Feb. 28, 2020, Jose Ivan Contreras-Gomez, 30, of Mexico, was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment for Possession with Intent to Distribute 50 Grams or More of Methamphetamine and 500 grams or more of Cocaine by United States District Judge Robert...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Bloomington, Illinois, man was sentenced today to 30 years in prison followed by lifetime supervised release for production and possession of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney John C. Milhiser of the Central District of Illinois. U.S. District Court Judge James E. Shadid pronounced the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Lancaster man was arrested yesterday and charged in connection with a series of unarmed robberies committed in Massachusetts and New Hampshire between November 2019 and February 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Drew H. Wrigley announced that Federal Court documents were unsealed on Feb. 10, 2020, revealing that the federal grand jury has indicted 1) Kolawole Bamidele Akande, a/k/a Patric Elis Ferguson 2) Olawale Sule a/k/a Brand King Mohamed; and 3) Babatope Joseph Aderinoye a/k/a...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Defendant was the Last of Four Men Convicted and Sentenced for Their Roles in a Heroin Trafficking Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Defendant Facing Mandatory Life in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: KAUAI, Hawaii - Kenji M. Price, the United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii, Jonathan E. Blais, Special Agent in Charge of the Seattle Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF"), Todd Raybuck, Chief of the Kauai Police Department (“KPD"), and Lucia Cabral-Dearmas...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Brian A. Benczkowski, Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, announced today that RICHARD GAFFEY, a/k/a “Dick Gaffey," pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, Jermaine Dale Jones, a 35-year-old man from Geneva County, Alabama, was sentenced to 112 months in prison for federal firearms charges, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Following his prison sentence, Jones will be on supervised release for three years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that in federal court this week, JAMES CALVIN BREEDEN, a 33-year-old resident of Lumberton, was convicted following a one-day trial before Senior United States District Judge James Earl Britt.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Two local women have admitted to conspiring with each other to import approximately 50 kilograms of 99% pure meth from Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Lancaster man was arrested yesterday and charged in connection with a series of unarmed robberies committed in Massachusetts and New Hampshire between November 2019 and February 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Catherine Ramos, 31, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. The charge carries a maximum possible sentence of 20 years imprisonment and a fine of $1,000,000.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: MOUNT RUSHMORE, S.D. - The National Park Service (NPS) announced next steps in advancing the return of fireworks to Mount Rushmore National Memorial after an 11-year absence. The draft environmental assessment (EA) available for review today, explores the return of fireworks in a way that protects the...
