News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Defendant also pleads guilty to downloading and possessing child pornography off of the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a conspiracy to operate a gambling enterprise, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the announcement from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of an innovative proposal, the Healthy Adult Opportunity (HAO), to modernize Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Philip Elvin Riehl, 68, of Bethel Township, Berks County, PA, was charged by Information with conspiracy, securities fraud, and wire fraud, stemming from an investigation into a Ponzi scheme worth approximately $60 million. The alleged...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Co-defendants Previously Pleaded Guilty to Four Murders in Queens and Brooklyn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, couple have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute Marijuana, Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, and Maintaining a Drug Involved Premises Near a Playground.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Air Force Colonel Sentenced for Receiving Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Luis Hernandez-Guzman, 26, and Fernanda Jasmin Ayala-Zamora, 22, both of Bakersfield, charging them with conspiring to distribute heroin and methamphetamine, as well as possession with intent to distribute heroin and methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott And Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Ubaldo Soto-Diaz, an illegal alien from Mexico, but residing in Portersville, California, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Soto-Diaz to pay a $2,000 fine and serve five years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Soto-Diaz pleaded guilty to the charge on July 18, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Cameron Nathaniel Robinson, age 21, of Bella Vista, Arkansas, was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment, and 5 years of supervised release for Transportation Of A Minor With Intent To Engage In...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - A 38-year-old illegally present Ecuadorian national charged with sexually assaulting a child younger than 11 years-old was arrested Jan. 29 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) after being released by local authorities without notice...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Purchaser of Department of Energy Loan to Pay $29 Million to Settle Alleged Bidding Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Jerome Lavell McBride, 39, has been sentenced to 188 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Devincio K.D. James, 30, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, 500 grams or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 87 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Michael R. Haynes, 39, of Colebrook, pleaded guilty in federal court to distribution of methamphetamine within a school zone, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON- Congressional leaders called on Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf to immediately halt implementation of the Trump Administration’s new asylum programs, Prompt Asylum Claim Review (PACR) and the Humanitarian Asylum Review Process (HARP). These programs do not help asylum seekers but instead systematically deny them due process, leave them in life-threatening circumstances, and ultimately deny the opportunity to justly seek asylum in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: The Defendant Sold Heroin that Resulted in an Overdose Death.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Alabama Physician Pleads Guilty to Drug Distribution Charges for Prescription of Opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Tacoma, WA - A 26-year-old man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to ten years in prison and lifetime supervised release for abusive sexual contact of a child, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. CHARLES EVAN CRAWFORD was 22-years-old when he sexually molested a 6-year-old child...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Brian Clayton Charles, 52, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced in federal court today to 18 months (542 days) in prison on five counts of mailing threatening communications to officers from the Albuquerque Police Department.
