News from February 2020
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: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Willie Champ, 19, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 150 months for two gun charges and 11 robberies. Champ pleaded guilty to these charges on Oct. 30, 2019.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: CUMMING, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Garick LLC - operating as Smith Garden Products - for exposing employees to safety hazards at the Cumming, Georgia, facility. The manufacturer of specialty mulch products faces $148,867 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Fitchburg man was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with participating in a fentanyl and crack cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Clifford Chandler Grader, 42, of Santa Rosa, California, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer Feb. 12, to four years in prison after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Ten defendants have been charged in federal court with conspiring to illegally conduct a multi-million dollar sports gambling business in the Chicago area.
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 Homeland Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - The superintendent of a Wisconsin school district was arrested Thursday following his indictment by a federal grand jury for sex trafficking of a minor and producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Crystal Martin, former Associate Registrar at Delaware State University, was sentenced to 15 months’ incarceration today by the Honorable Richard G. Andrews, United States District Judge for the District of Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Gary Lee Briggs, 63, of Fresno, charging him with receipt and distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - James Benjamin, 58, of Ellicott City, Maryland, was sentenced Tuesday to sixteen months in prison and ordered to pay $74,500 in restitution by U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman of the District of Columbia. Following his prison term, Benjamin will serve a term of three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jeffrey Allen Johnson, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to having child pornography, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign helps educate GA pilots about safety, including loss of control (LOC), powerplant failure, and controlled flight into terrain (CFIT).
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: GREAT FALLS- A Wolf Point man and former tribal police officer accused of touching a child’s genitals on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: “We are committed to put America back on top of international leadership with the best weather forecasts, powered by the fastest supercomputers and world-class weather models," said Neil Jacobs, Ph.D., acting NOAA administrator.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Jai Britt, 45, of Manchester, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for drug trafficking on Wednesday, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Former DIA Employee Pleads Guilty to Leaking Classified National Defense Information to Journalists.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director and federal, state and local law enforcement officials hosted a news conference today to address how the Green Light Law in the state of New York impacts public safety. Hosted at the Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office in Troy, New York, 17 federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies gathered to implore the State of New York to consider the ramifications of the Green Light Law.
