News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court to 48 months’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Dameon Kerk Allen (43, St. Petersburg) to 10 years in federal prison for attempting to entice a child to engage in sexual activity. The court also ordered Allen to forfeit the electronic devices he had used in the commission of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon today announced that the DEA will direct enforcement resources to methamphetamine “transportation hubs" - areas where methamphetamine is often trafficked in bulk and then distributed across the country. While continuing to focus on stopping drugs being smuggled across the border, DEA’s Operation Crystal Shield will ramp up enforcement to block their further distribution into America’s neighborhoods.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, DE - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Dana Rail Care for workplace safety and health hazards at the facility in Wilmington, Delaware. The company faces $371,276 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Danville, VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury sitting in U.S. District Court in Roanoke has indicted four individuals associated with Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) on federal money laundering charges. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and Jesse Fong, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Washington Field Division, announced the charges today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Michael J. De Palma, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI); Anthony Ramirez, Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge, U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), Miami Field...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Bradenton, Florida, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for one count of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, twelve counts of Wire Fraud, and twenty-nine counts of Money Laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that William Hayes, age 72, of Wilmington, Delaware, was sentenced on Feb. 19, 2020, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 210 months’ imprisonment for transportation of minors to engage in criminal sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando Valley man was sentenced today to 108 months in federal prison for smuggling more than 80 pounds of cocaine - concealed and suspended in grease - in household products that were mailed to Australia.
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.
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 Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: As part of Arkansas Archeology Month, Hot Springs National Park is hosting "Archaeology Day at Hot Springs National Park" and we invite you to participate with us.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STEVEN C. GOLD, 47, of Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport federal court to fraud and conspiracy offenses stemming from his participation in two separate scheme that defrauded his Illinois-based company of more than $9 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Tirso Garcia-Valdez, 27, of Mexico, Misael Garcia-Carranza, 23, of Mexico, and Brenda Carmona-Venegas, 37, of Los Angeles, were indicted Thursday for conspiring and possessing with intent to distribute approximately 20,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl and approximately 20 pounds of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court to 48 months’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today following the announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency that it will begin the process to regulate PFAS in drinking water...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: OMAHA, NE-The FBI Omaha Field Office and the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) School of Criminology and Criminal Justice will co-host a Uniting Women in Criminal Justice Networking (#cjWOMENunite) event on Tuesday, March 31, 2020, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on the UNO campus. Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Kristi Johnson will provide the keynote address.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
Release: PHOENIX - New technology that confirms the validity of a traveler’s photo identification and confirms their flight information is being used by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at some of the security checkpoints at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Charles P. Hendricks, age 32, of McAlester, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, punishable by not less than 10 years and not more than life imprisonment, a fine up to $10,000,000.00 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been arrested on a federal child pornography charge for allegedly enticing an underage girl to produce sexually explicit videos of herself.
