News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Fugitive Wanted by Iraq for Murder of Iraqi Police Officers Arrested in Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Daniel Davis, 44, a former major at Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) in Angola, Louisiana, was found guilty by a jury yesterday in federal court for his participation in the beating of an inmate who was handcuffed, shackled, and not resisting and for failing to intervene to stop his subordinates from...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Crystal M. Tress, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to stealing government property, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rakim Davis, 30, of Washington, D.C. was sentenced today by Judge Ronna L. Beck of the Superior Court of the District of the Columbia to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl who was walking to a D.C. metro station, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former Ameriprise financial advisor who ran a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 20 of her clients - including some of her relatives - out of more than $8.1 million was sentenced today to 136 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: Octave Chanute, the renowned civil engineer and flight pioneer, is known by many in Northwest Indiana as the region's icon of innovation. Now, a feature documentary is telling the story of the influential flight pioneer whose experiments in the Indiana Dunes propelled the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - Harcros Chemicals, Inc., of Kansas City, Kan., pleaded guilty today to violating a federal clean air law in connection with a toxic chlorine gas cloud that formed over Atchison, Kan., in 2016, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai informed the Committee that the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau completed its investigation into wireless carriers’ unauthorized disclosure of real-time location data...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) Phoenix office recently partnered with multiple law enforcement agencies to include the Phoenix Police Department, Mesa Police Department, Tempe Police Department, Chandler Police Department and the Arizona Attorney General’s office to identify and arrest alleged sexual predators. The Arizona Attorney General’s Office is also prosecuting those arrested.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Shuntario Johnson, 38, has been sentenced to 371 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, the possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, carjacking and aiding and abetting an attempted robbery. Overall, a five ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dr. George P. Naum, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to six months incarceration to be followed by two years of supervised release, with the first six months on home confinement, for illegally distributing controlled substances, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that yesterday in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced NATHANIEL JOSEY, 61, of Wilmington, North Carolina, to 84 months imprisonment, followed by 4 years of supervised release. On April 2, 2019...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Ludlow couple was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Springfield for a six-year bid-rigging and kickback scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Greeneville, Tenn. - On Jan. 24, 2020, Juan Moreno-Pantiga, 30, of Bulls Gap, was sentenced before the Honorable Clifton L. Corker, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Benjamin Jenkins has been convicted by a jury of multiple counts of producing and distributing child pornography. Jenkins lured numerous young girls into sending him sexually explicit photos and videos, and then retaliated against the girls who refused to send him more.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia - Nature can be a great inspiration! Local students can celebrate their creativity and interest in nature through the Youth Arts in the Parks 2020 Appalachian Spring Wildflower Art Contest. Now is the time for students to get their entries in, for the online contest entry window...
By State Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after the Department of State announced the appointment of W. Stuart Symington IV as special envoy for South Sudan:
By EPA Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai informed the Committee that the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau completed its investigation into wireless carriers’ unauthorized disclosure of real-time location data...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - DWAYNE BROWN, age 34, a resident of Laplace, Louisiana, was indicted for being a felon in possession of ammunition, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to a Social Security and bankruptcy fraud scheme.
