News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Andrew Stephen Lund, 38, of Vallejo, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to 10 years in prison for attempted online enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Defendant’s Crimes Included Arson, Extortion and Illegal Gambling in Brooklyn.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against the Village of Walthill, Nebraska, for Restrictions on Non-Denominational Christian Church Trying to Build a Place of Worship.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE - 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: CONCORD - Ricardo Jacques Pierre, 29, of Billerica, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary Azar: We write to request clarification of your recent statements on a radio program indicating the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may: (1) exclude certain vaping products from a federal court-ordered deadline of May 12, 2020 requiring manufacturers to submit premarket applications...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Mississippi Tax Return Preparer Sentenced to Prison for Filing False Tax Returns.
By State Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary:. We write to express our grave concerns with the ongoing assault on the people of Idlib by the Assad regime, Russia, Iran, and Hizballah. According to the UN, at least 1,730 civilians have been killed since April and almost 900,000 people have been displaced by this offensive since...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: BALTIMORE - Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge Justin J. King sentenced William Lee Foster, age 53, on Feb. 12, 2020 for impersonation of a police officer, specifically for pretending to be an ATF Special Agent from ATF’s Houston Field Division. He pled guilty to this charge on the same day as sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Antonio Dewayne Brown, of Weirton, West Virginia, has admitted to his role in a cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
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: ALBANY, Ga. - A Mexican national with prior convictions for illegal reentry into the United States and transporting illegal aliens, and who injured an officer during his 2019 arrest, was sentenced to 52 months in prison for illegal reentry and violation of supervised release, announced Charles “Charlie"...
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: 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: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Tajuan Smith, of Canal Winchester, Ohio, was sentenced today to 16 months incarceration for distributing cocaine, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
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: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 28 Indictments charging 29 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Lawrence developer was sentenced today to three months imprisonment for disposing of asbestos in violation of the Clean Air Act. In addition, the defendant was ordered to pay a $55,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY- After a five-day trial, a federal jury in Salt Lake City, Utah, found defendant Alan Covington guilty on three hate crime charges stemming an incident in which the defendant attacked three men with a metal pole because he believed the men were Mexican.
