News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a ceremony today in Washington, D.C., ATF Acting Director Regina Lombardo was appointed by Attorney General William P. Barr to the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice. On Oct. 28, 2019, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order No. 13896, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Rene Roy, age 51, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to bank fraud on Jan. 21, 2020, before United States District Court Judge John Jones.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Harwich man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for firearms and drug offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - The 41-year-old female leader of an alien smuggling organization has been ordered to prison in a conspiracy to transport undocumented aliens and for illegally re-entering the country, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: Keith Hook Sentenced for Trading Child Pornography While on Duty as a Border Patrol Agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: Bangor, Maine: A Princeton man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Bangor to distributing cocaine base (crack), United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration Des Moines Resident Office partnered with the Mid-Iowa Narcotics Enforcement Task Force, United States Postal Inspection Service and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations to take down 21 high-ranking members of the Jesse Sanchez...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: Manhattan Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to Terrorist Organization.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: Jessica Weinman will arrive on Feb. 3, 2020 as the acting superintendent of Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River. She will serve in this position until approximately May 30, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: Seattle - A 42-year-old Van Nuys, California, man was convicted late yesterday in U.S. District Court in Seattle of two federal felonies for his sexual assault on a young woman on a flight from London to Seattle. BABAK REZAPOUR was convicted of abusive sexual contact in a special aircraft jurisdiction...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that Fatima Sesay, age 28, of Laurel, Maryland, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson to obstruction of justice. As a result of her guilty plea, Sesay faces a significant term of imprisonment, fines, and a period of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man and two Mercer County, New Jersey, men today admitted their roles distributing heroin in and around Trenton, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that LLERALD CARRASQUILLO, 28, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: Two Long Beach, Mississippi men were sentenced today for their roles in a long-running odometer tampering scheme, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Teresa Ann Gonzalez, age 63, of Otis Orchards, Washington, and Michael Adam White, age 40, of Las Vegas, Nevada were sentenced for their respective participation in an insurance fraud scheme involving...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAYREN JAKAR WYNN, 30, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 92 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - JOSEPH MALDONADO-PASSAGE, also known as Joseph Allen Maldonado, Joseph Allen Schreibvogel, and "Joe Exotic," 56, formerly of Wynnewood, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 22 years in prison after a federal jury convicted him of two counts of murder-for-hire, eight counts of violating the Lacey Act for falsifying wildlife records, and nine counts of violating the Endangered Species Act, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - Michael L. Cooper, 40, of O’Fallon, Illinois, was charged in a federal complaint with distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Mercer County, New Jersey, man was arraigned today on an indictment charging him with unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: In 2017, almost 50,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses. It’s a sad reality that New England as a whole has been particularly hard hit by opioids. In fact, per capita, of the 12 states across the country with the most opioid overdose fatalities, all six of our states make the list. Much of that is due to illicitly produced fentanyl.
