News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: Bangor, Maine: A Hancock man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Bangor to possessing with the intent to distribute 40 grams or more of a substance containing fentanyl, United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Jan. 15, 2020, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against David Luis Rey-Delgado, David Santiago-Delgado, and José Daniel Cruz Gómez-Hernández, charging them with false statements made to an agency of the United States, and multiple counts...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: READING, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain and Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Philadelphia William Walker announced today that 13 individuals from Reading were charged in a 22-count Superseding Indictment with offenses including conspiracy to participate...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - David Jahve Nin, 40, of Salida, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to 16 years and eight months in prison for receiving child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in San Francisco and Phoenix, Arizona actively worked the investigation contributing to the prosecution and sentencing of the case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - During a ceremony today in Washington, D.C., Donald W. Washington, Director of the U.S. Marshals Service, 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.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: Prohibited from making the purchase in Massachusetts, defendant crossed into Rhode Island to purchase ammunition where background checks are not required.
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: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Jan. 22, 2020, Alex Barbu was sentenced in federal court to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Barbu received a thirty-nine month custody sentence for his part in an ATM skimming...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced public negotiation sessions for the City of West Sacramento’s Water Service Contract.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: On Jan. 16, 2020, Palm Beach County resident Rodrick Domonique Jones was sentenced to 12½ years in prison, following his jury trial conviction for bank robbery and armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Deontres Javan Taylor (26, Jacksonville) with disaster assistance fraud related to Hurricane Irma. If convicted, Taylor faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison, plus payment of restitution to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA - A West Yellowstone man today admitted to possessing unregistered improvised bombs after law enforcement found three small devices in his truck last year, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A Mexican national and convicted felon has been ordered to federal prison, again, after violating the terms of his supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A semi-professional wrestler from Mexico was sentenced Wednesday to nearly four years in federal prison for conspiring to import over 50 kilograms of meth.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Curtis Riley, age 57, of Dayton, Ohio, was sentenced on Jan. 15, 2020 by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 6 ½ years’ imprisonment followed by two years on supervised release for acting as a courier for a heroin trafficking conspiracy that distributed large quantities of heroin to locations throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: Former Police Detective and FBI Task Force Officer Indicted for Bribery and Other Offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - A Mexican woman and leader of a smuggling organization was sentenced Wednesday following her conviction in a conspiracy to transport illegal aliens.
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: LAREDO, Texas - A 49-year-old man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of importing a large quantity of cocaine into the United States via Laredo, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
