News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that DYZHAE RICHARDSON, 23, of Hartford, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to narcotics distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - The Drug Enforcement Administration yesterday announced that a member of a large drug trafficking organization was sentenced. Byron A. Lawson, age 40, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was sentenced as part of Operation Hidden Fee, an extensive federal, state, and local investigation by the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: Announces Grants Totaling More Than $1.6 Million to Fight Human Trafficking; January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - An Oregon man was sentenced today to 149 months and 12 days in prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release for sex trafficking minors, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations Seattle Debra Parker, Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams of the District of Oregon announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury today found Bobby Morlen (54, Deltona) guilty of two counts of theft of government funds. Morlen faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison on each count. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 8, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - DAVID AARON JACOBS, 43, of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to 42 months in prison for intentionally conveying false and misleading information by making a hoax threat of a mass shooting announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A California woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with paying $9,000 to have an individual take online classes for her son, in order to earn credits to facilitate his graduation from Georgetown University.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Gunner Scott Young, of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, was indicted today on a child pornography charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Jacob Ebel, 32, of Niverville, N.Y., was sentenced today to 18 years in prison after admitting that he distributed heroin and fentanyl to two people who died in Columbia County in July 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former CEO and President of Insys Therapeutics was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for bribing practitioners to prescribe Subsys, a fentanyl-based pain medication, often when medically unnecessary.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CARLOS DELGADO, also known as “Los," 50, of Mansfield, has been convicted of drug trafficking and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former Regional Sales Director for Insys Therapeutics was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for bribing practitioners to prescribe Subsys, a fentanyl-based pain medication, often when medically unnecessary.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - The results of a trail user visitor survey conducted in 2018 reveals that visitors to the nation’s largest urban national park would like to see improvements made to bathrooms, drinking fountains, trash cans and maps of trailheads and trails, National Park Service officials say.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that DYZHAE RICHARDSON, 23, of Hartford, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to narcotics distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced that on Jan. 21, 2020, Omar A. Martinez, age 46, was sentenced to 300 months in prison by Chief Judge John A. Jarvey for Conspiracy to Distribute at least 500 Grams or More of a Controlled Substance. Martinz will serve ten years of supervised release following his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Richard Mukes, 33, of Memphis has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - DEA New Jersey Division Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito announced a Pennsylvania man and two Mercer County, N.J., men today admitted their roles distributing heroin in and around Trenton.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today signed a Record of Decision that allows the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to offer a right-of-way grant to TC Energy for a term of 30 years, allowing for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline across 44 miles of federally managed lands in Montana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Wayne Samuel Ellis Clyburn, Of Ranson, West Virginia, and Shawn Kendall Murray, of Gainesville, Virginia, were indicted today on drug charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
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.
