News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Andrew Reed Cumbie, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a failure to register charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: It’s not easy to do pregnancy tests on whales. You can’t just ask a wild ocean animal that’s the size of a school bus to pee on a little stick. For decades, the only way scientists could count pregnant females was by sight and best guesses based on visual characteristics. For the last several years, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: New Charges: Fentanyl Caused Two Overdose Deaths.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARIO ANTONIO HERRERA, also known as Antonio Morales, 36, a citizen of El Salvador last residing in East Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported.
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 Homeland Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
Release: A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) manager at St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL) was named the Ambassador of the Year for helping a passenger avert a travel nightmare, ultimately fulfilling the passenger’s dream vacation. Robert Davis was given the Ambassador of the Year award for the Catch Us Giving customer service program at the Airport’s annual employee celebration on February 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-William Gregory Douglas, 37, of Cave Junction, Oregon, pleaded guilty today for threatening to shoot YouTube employees at the company’s San Bruno, California headquarters after his account was removed for violating the video-sharing platform’s terms of service.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Defendant allegedly charged more than $350,000 to corporate credit card.
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: BOSTON - An investor in PixarBio Corp., a Boston-based biotech company, was sentenced today on securities fraud charges in connection with a scheme to defraud investors and manipulate the company’s shares.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Hammond - Two criminal indictments were returned today for criminal violations related to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Blight Elimination Program, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
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: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Additional charges and more defendants have been added to two federal indictments that now charge a total of 21 defendants for their roles in separate conspiracies to distribute heroin and fentanyl in the Springfield, Mo., area, resulting in the overdose deaths of at least two people.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging an Altoona man with sex trafficking of a minor and production of child pornography. Daniel Peggs, 32, was charged...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Harold and Hollie Kennedy Each to Serve 12 Months in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Autumn St. John, 27, of Nashua, pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to drug trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Honorable Judith C. Herrera, Senior United States District Judge, sentenced Vidal Sandoval, 50, of Cimarron, New Mexico, to 87 months in federal prison today for drug trafficking and theft of government property committed while Sandoval was a deputy sheriff in Colfax County, New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for fentanyl trafficking and using the Social Security number of a U.S. citizen to obtain a driver’s license.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Christopher Jeorge Millican, 26, of Lemoore, charging him with one count of sexual exploitation of children and one count of receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND- Terryante Flournoy, 21, and Ciontay Wright, 20, both of Gary, Indiana, have been indicted for attempted robbery affecting interstate commerce, conspiracy to commit robbery, and murder resulting from the use and carrying of a firearm during and in relation to that attempted robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. Flournoy has also been indicted for possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon.
