News from February 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: According to the Fisheries of the United States report, which is compiled by NOAA using data and analysis not immediately available at the same end of a fishing year, U.S. highest value species groups in 2018 included lobster ($684 million), crabs ($645 million), salmon ($598 million), scallops ($541...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Andres Rafael Viola, 36, an Argentine citizen who resides in Las Vegas, pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of children and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Frank Burrola for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Las Vegas Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kelly D. Brady, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, announced that JOSEPH RYAN, 56, of Trumbull, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with knowingly providing firearms to a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Marshall Brooks, 54, was sentenced to 135 months’ imprisonment by Senior United States District Judge Jan E. Dubois for two armed bank robberies and four armed robberies of stores, all located in lower Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Paul Marshall Bodner, 64, a former substitute teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Agents Feb. 13, on charges related to sex tourism in Vietnam.
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: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Luis Moreno, 40, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, was sentenced on Feb. 18 in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico to 25 years in prison for production of a visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Missouri Woman Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Infant Child and Misleading Law Enforcement.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers arrested Andre Lloyd Campbell Feb. 14. Campbell, an unlawfully present Jamaican national, who has been released seven times from local law enforcement custody while on an active immigration detainer due to New York City’s sanctuary policies.
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 Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management will today temporarily close the Winchester Trail, in the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, Washington County, Utah, to provide for public safety while Rocky Mountain Power upgrades its existing power line from Cottonwood Road to the Winchester Hills area. The trail is expected to reopen in early April.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, March 7, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a special 2-hour car caravan tour of Chickamauga Battlefield taking advantage of the lack of foliage to view the landscape. This tour begins at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Jarquel Jenkins (28, Fort Myers) to 19 years and 7 months in federal prison for distributing a controlled substance, possession with the intent to distribute a controlled substance, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of five individuals connected with the 10z/20z south Minneapolis street gangs. ALKWAN KWAME LAWSON-HOLIDAY, 30, LE’KEITH ALI DU’JUAN RAYFORD, 28, KENNETH LAMONT THOMPSON, 34, MAURICE JERRY JOHNSON, 29, and LENARDO ALEXZANDER WOODARD...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Jarquel Jenkins (28, Fort Myers) to 19 years and 7 months in federal prison for distributing a controlled substance, possession with the intent to distribute a controlled substance, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Feb. 19, 2020, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against Kelly L. Turney (age: 23), of Zoar, on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment charged Turney with Possession of Child Pornography in Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252A.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that Mark Edward Staggs, 64, a resident of Portland, has been sentenced to six months in federal prison and two years’ supervised release for filing a false federal income tax return in 2011. Staggs was also ordered to pay more than $142,000 in restitution to the IRS.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 20, 2020 - Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that will help rural water systems face the challenges of aging infrastructure, workforce shortages, increasing costs, limited...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Carlos Garcia Rivero, 45, of Mt. Morris, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 28 grams or more of crack cocaine and 500 grams or more of cocaine. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Three Victims Shot and Killed During Armed Carjacking and Robberies; Defendants Allegedly Committed Six Armed Carjackings and Four Armed Robberies in Four Months.
