News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Jan. 17, 2020 - Cecil Clint Woodard, 42, of Nashville, Tennessee, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Eli J. Richardson to 45 years in federal prison for child pornography offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN -We are pleased to join together today as the leaders of federal, state, and local law-enforcement agencies in Memphis and Shelby County to announce the crime statistics for 2019 in the City of Memphis. Special thanks goes to Deputy Chief Don Crowe at the Memphis Police Department for compiling...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of violating federal drugs laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Campbellsville, Kentucky, man, has been found guilty at trial for attempted receipt of child pornography and accessing the internet with intent to view child pornography, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman. The jury convicted James S. Wolfe after deliberating for less than 30 minutes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Tramaine Brown was sentenced by United States District Judge Joanna Seybert to 10 years’ imprisonment for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine and powder cocaine. Brown pleaded guilty in June 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Maryland Man Sentenced to Prison for Fraudulent Scheme to Solicit Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Contributions to Scam-Pacs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN -We are pleased to join together today as the leaders of federal, state, and local law-enforcement agencies in Memphis and Shelby County to announce the crime statistics for 2019 in the City of Memphis. Special thanks goes to Deputy Chief Don Crowe at the Memphis Police Department for compiling...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CHRISTOPHER COLLINS, who represented the 27th District of New York as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was sentenced to 26 months in prison today by U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick for participating in a scheme to commit insider trading and for making false statements to federal law enforcement agents when interviewed about his conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HAROLD COOK, also known as “Oink," 42, of Bloomfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to life in prison for his role in the kidnapping, robbery and the execution-style murder of Charles Teasley, 35, of West Hartford, in January 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn today announced that four defendants, Rajesh Ramcharan, age 45, Diann Ramcharan, age 37, Sergeant Galima Murry, age 31, and Pastor Ken Harvell, age 60, have been found guilty following a nine-day jury trial for conspiracy to commit marriage fraud and making...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On Jan. 16, 2020, Shane Leroy Robey, age 24, of Des Moines, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger for Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Robey was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment, the statutory maximum, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that over the course of the last several months in federal court fourteen defendants have been sentenced in a large-scale heroin trafficking organization.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota announced two additions to Committee staff, and the elevation of Prescott Martin III.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Speeding Driver Ran Red Light and Struck Car, Killing Motorist.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of violating federal drugs laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Carson City, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction and/or civil prosecution of the person(s) responsible for the vandalism and theft of government property stolen from Desert Springs Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) near Hungry Valley, NV.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Quinton Jones, 40, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
Release: Animal Care has corrected a discrepancy found in our Annual Reports summarizing the number of animals used in research. We were notified about the discrepancy and determined that there were problems with our data retrieval system. The system was double counting or failing to count some animals. Animal ...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public nominations for positions on 27 Resource Advisory Councils (RACs) nationwide, which include five vacant positions with the Northern California RAC. These citizen-based committees assist in the development of recommendations that address public land management issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, man, James E. Woosley, 49, who previously admitted to coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child pornography, was sentenced Friday to 360 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Danny C. Reeves.
