News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence woman admitted to a federal court judge on Wednesday that she participated in a conspiracy to create and use fraudulent prescriptions to gain and distribute opioid pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration today released Prevention with Purpose: A Strategic Planning Guide for Preventing Drug Misuse Among College Students. This new publication provides a road map for college and university-based prevention professionals to address campus-wide drug misuse issues.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Alaska announces it is seeking public nominations for positions on its Resource Advisory Council (RAC). The Council is made up of 15 dedicated Alaska residents who, through consensus, will develop recommendations for State Director Chad Padgett on public land management policy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Former Gwinnett County, Georgia, Deputy Sheriff Aaron S. Masters, who was assigned to the Rapid Response Team (RRT) at the Gwinnett County Jail, has been charged with using excessive force against a female inmate in 2018. Masters was indicted by a federal grand jury for unnecessarily assaulting the inmate and writing a false incident report to justify his use of force.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Mark Miner was sentenced to 48 months in prison for possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Edward M. Chen, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA-- On Jan. 15, 2020, Narinder Kumar, age 66, from Bettendorf, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to six months in prison after pleading guilty to Failure to Pay Employment Taxes, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Kumar was ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Matthew Scott Collins, of Stonewood, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - James G. Walker, 61, the owner of a commercially zoned row house at 708 Kennedy Street, N.W., was arraigned by Superior Court of the District of Columbia Judge Ronna L. Beck on two counts of second degree murder and two counts of involuntary manslaughter. The grand jury indictment was announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: Kentucky Man Pleads Guilty to Illicit Sexual Conduct While Traveling and Residing in Cambodia.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and 13 Democratic senators, opposed the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) proposal to deny students employed by their private colleges and universities their...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: A criminal complaint was filed yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn charging Mimi Ould Baba, a citizen of Mali, with the murder of United States citizen Michael J. Riddering, and conspiring to provide and attempting to provide material support, including personnel, to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (“AQIM") and al-Murabitoun, designated foreign terrorist organizations. The defendant is currently in custody in Mali.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: TWIN FALLS, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management Burley and Shoshone Field Offices are recruiting for seasonal positions for the upcoming 2020 field season. Positions include park rangers (recreation maintenance), biological science technicians, forestry technicians and range technicians (weeds). Job vacancies and information on how to apply can be found online at: www.usajobs.gov.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), along with Representatives Mike Quigley (D-IL), Gerry Connolly (D-VA), and Steve Chabot (R-OH), continued their call for greater public access to our federal court deliberations by reintroducing the Eyes on the Courts Act , legislation to require cameras be permitted in the Supreme Court and all federal appellate courts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Independence, Missouri, man was convicted by a federal jury today of illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to two years probation on her conviction of money laundering conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: BALTIMORE - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett today sentenced Paul Alexander, aka David Paul Hayes, aka “Shorty", age 47, of Hanover, Maryland, to 35 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, on five federal charges including conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, two counts...
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: RICHMOND, Va. - A Mecklenburg County man was sentenced today to more than 15 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute over 27 kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that after a court trial on Jan. 14, 2020, U.S. District Judge JP Stadtmueller found Ayse E. Duncan (age: 32) guilty of Possessing a Firearm as an Unlawful User of Controlled Substances and Transferring a Firearm...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - David C. Joseph, United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, announced that a Cotton Valley woman was sentenced for stealing more than $1 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Feeding Service Program, a federal feeding program meant to provide meals to economically disadvantaged children during the summer months when they are not in school.
