News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As part the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California’s strategy to reduce violent crime by focusing on firearms prosecutions, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced an indictment and a recent sentencing involving illegal firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A former resident of Wilkinsburg, PA pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to charges of violating federal drug and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Mercer County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating the federal firearms law, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeffrey Maciejewski, 26, of Penn Yan, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography involving prepubescent minors, was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison and five years supervised release by Chief U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: The Defendant Resided in Haywood County and Targeted Victims at, or Near, Retirement Age.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A former resident of Wilkinsburg, PA pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to charges of violating federal drug and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: GLEN JEAN, WV- Superintendent Lizzie Watts has named Eve West as the new Chief of Interpretation at New River Gorge National River, Gauley River National Area, and Bluestone National Scenic River. She began her new assignment Feb. 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A former California resident known for carrying a machine gun while perpetrating crimes has admitted operating a major drug-trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Efforts will focus on main U.S. methamphetamine trafficking transportation hubs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE MANUEL SANTOS, 37, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to enticing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - Ethan Kollie, 24, of Kettering, a friend of the Dayton mass shooter Connor Betts, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 32 months in prison for illegally possessing firearms and lying on federal firearms form 4473.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Three former residents of Southwestern Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to drug trafficking in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Suffolk man was sentenced today to two years in prison for fraud in connection with the failure of People Express Airlines in 2014 and the filing of a false income tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Portsmouth man today on charges of a racketeering conspiracy that included the murder of 23-year-old Delante Eley.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that AARON JEFFREY DENN, age 35, a resident of Metairie, Louisiana was sentenced on Feb. 18, 2020 by U.S. District Judge Jay C. Zainey in connection with his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone to three years’ probation, with conditions that the first 12 months be served on home confinement and that DENN perform 100 hours of community service. Judge Zainey additionally imposed a fine of $6,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: 2016 Econo-Lodge Murder Investigation Continues-Reward Offered.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: [GREENEVILLE, Tenn.] -Michael Keith Turner of Hartford, Tennessee, pled guilty today before Senior United States District Judge R. Leon Jordan to three federal felony counts charging that Mr. Turner had created false records to conceal illegal purchases of ginseng made prior to the legal harvest season...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As part the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California’s strategy to reduce violent crime by focusing on firearms prosecutions, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced an indictment and a recent sentencing involving illegal firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: More than 200 law enforcement officers died by suicide in 2019. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline may be reached at 1-800-273-8255 and provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress. We are HERE for law enforcement, HELP is a phone call away, and above all there is always HOPE.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Princeton Flagg-Garrett, age 28, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Feb. 19, 2020, by a federal grand jury on bank fraud, aggravated identity theft and obstruction of correspondence charges.
