News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Karon Foster, age 26; Rashaud Nesmith, age 19; Jamai Wells, age 30; and Daniel Williams, age 29, all of Baltimore, Maryland, on federal charges related to a racketeering conspiracy, resulting in numerous murders, carjacking, robberies, and firearms crimes in Baltimore City.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Matzen, 39, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to escaping from federal custody and to two counts of bank robbery before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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: 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: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A former Camden County, Missouri, sheriff’s deputy was sentenced in federal court today for receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT/LAFAYETTE/ALEXANDRIA/LAKE CHARLES/MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Louisiana collected over $44 million in civil and criminal actions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019. Of this amount, $24,561,613.58 was collected in civil actions, and $3,554,319.45 was collected in criminal actions handled solely by the Western District.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: A man who possessed or distributed over a kilogram of methamphetamine was sentenced on Feb. 19, 2020, to more than twelve years in federal prison.
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: DALLAS - 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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Anthony Vespa, 55, was sentenced yesterday to 36 months in prison after having pleaded guilty to charges of Wire Fraud in connection with his employment as CEO of Southeast Michigan Accountable Care (SEMAC) announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester, Massachusetts man was sentenced in federal court in Boston for his role in a wide-ranging operation that distributed heroin and fentanyl throughout Cape Cod.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 36-year-old Edinburg man has been ordered to federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute more than 25 kilograms of meth, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Utah Man Convicted on Hate Crime Charges After Attacking Three Men with a Metal Pole.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a wide-ranging operation that distributed heroin and fentanyl throughout Cape Cod.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Yovon C. Boyd, 34, La Crosse, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 50 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Boyd pleaded guilty to this charge on Nov. 21, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Joshua Richard Lofton, of Petersburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 78 months incarceration for methamphetamine distribution, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Feb. 18, 2020, United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Floyd Powell III, age 36, of Plymouth, Pennsylvania, to 102 months’ imprisonment for heroin trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, Robert Brandon Malone, 35, a resident of Prattville, Alabama pleaded guilty to three counts of federal wire fraud and one count of transporting a stolen vehicle, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., FBI Special Agent in Charge James Jewell, and Prattville Police Chief Mark Thompson. The federal charges arise from multiple schemes orchestrated by Malone to sell automobiles that did not belong to him.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Simeon Hernandez-Ortiz, 24, of West Sacramento, charging him with possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
