News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael C. Mikulka, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging LUIS F. ESTRADA, 46, of Bridgeport, with making false statements and submitting false documents to the U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA").
By USDA Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Dec. 11, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) reached a consent decision with Freddy Lamb (Lamb), Roff, Okla., for an alleged violation of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: Reuben Rankin, 34, was charged in a superseding indictment with one count of sex trafficking of a juvenile and one count of production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Glenn Randall Ferguson, age 48, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was found guilty by a federal jury of Possession Of Certain Material Involving The Sexual Exploitation Of Minors, in violation of Title 18...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Cape Cod man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to his role in a wide-ranging heroin trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Matthew Sean Bremond, 32, of Soldotna, Alaska, was sentenced yesterday by Sr. U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline, to serve nine years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing large quantities of heroin throughout the Kenai Peninsula. In September 2019, Bremond pleaded guilty to one count of drug distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Laurel County man was convicted today by a federal jury in London for possessing with intent to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (FPISC) voted to include mining as a sector covered by its authority.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas; announced yesterday that Marc Stovall, age 32, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release on one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach doctor was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for defrauding Medicare, Medicaid, and Tricare, and other health care benefits programs out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that CHRISTIE LYNN BROWNING, age 42, a resident of Metairie, Louisiana pled guilty on Jan. 15, 2020 to a dual object conspiracy to obtain possession of oxycodone by fraud and to unlawfully distribute oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury today returned a superseding indictment charging Stephen Lyle Orback, age 65, on the federal charges of intentionally attempting to obstruct persons in the free exercise of their religious beliefs through the threatened use of force, and making threatening communications, specifically multiple telephone calls threatening a synagogue.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A New York City man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Bangor to conspiring and attempting to interfere with commerce by robbery, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Christopher Crawford, age 40, of Waldorf, Maryland to 20 years in federal prison, followed by 25 years of supervised release, for production of child pornography. The sentence was imposed on Jan. 15, 2020. Judge Grimm also ordered that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Richard Adams age 59, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to aiding and abetting armed bank robbery and aiding and abetting the brandishing of a firearm during a crime of violence, in connection with armed bank robberies committed in Baltimore on January 23 and Feb. 1, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Phillip R. Andrews, 80, of Gilford, pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday, to transportation of child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA-A Marion man who admitted illegally transporting grizzly bear claws to Washington after shooting the bear in the Bob Marshal Wilderness in 2017 was sentenced today to three years of probation and ordered to pay $5,000 restitution to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 24-year-old Jacksonville, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: MILWAUKEE- DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Paul E. Maxwell Jr., and Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today that 26 defendants have been charged in federal court with trafficking at least five kilograms or more of cocaine as well as distributable...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jeremy Matthew Cralton, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
