News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Robert Brown, age 30, and Etherneal Simon, age 49, both of St. Croix, pleaded guilty to racketeering charges for their respective roles as members of the Paul Girard Criminal Enterprise (“the Enterprise"), United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. Brown, who entered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman convicted of Maintaining a Drug Involved Premises was sentenced on Jan. 14, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after meeting with European Union Commissioner for Trade, Phil Hogan...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Duane Kurt Makela was sentenced to 97 months in prison in connection with ten armed bank robberies, seven unarmed bank robberies, and two attempted bank robberies across Northern California, announced Northern District of California Acting U.S. Attorney Adam A. Reeves, U.S. Attorney McGregor...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Thirteen defendants indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Receipt of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. (Jan.15, 2020)-Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after the House of Representatives voted on H.Res. 798, a resolution to appoint managers for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump and transmit the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: A Miami-Dade County resident was arrested on federal charges in connection with a $1.5 million mail and wire fraud scheme that targeted the United States Postal Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, 39, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, and Majid Ghorbani, 60, an Iranian citizen and resident of California, have been sentenced to prison terms of 38 months and 30 months, respectively, for their criminal convictions relating to their conduct conducting surveillance of and collecting identifying information about American citizens and U.S. nationals who are members of the group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah - Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service law enforcement rangers’ knowledge of the remote, rugged Arizona backcountry - coupled with a solid relationship with the Mohave County Arizona Sheriff’s Office - led to the successful rescue and reunification of a family of five who became stranded in mud and snow in the Arizona strip last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of MARIO MARTELL SPENCER, 34, and AHMED OSMAN FARAH, 32, for the armed robbery of a Minneapolis convenience store. SPENCER and FARAH were convicted by a federal jury on June 17, 2019, and were sentenced to 156 months in prison and 120 months in prison, respectively. The sentences were handed down by Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Deannajo White (39, Suwannee County) with disaster assistance fraud related to Hurricane Irma. If convicted, White faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison, plus payment of restitution to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: An employee of Cummins Bridgeway, LLC (“CBL") and Cummins Inc. (“Cummins"), two Michigan-based companies operating in New Hudson, pleaded guilty yesterday to devising a scheme that defrauded his employer of over $4 million, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) announced earlier this month the addition of Raul Antonio De La Santisima Trinidad Gorrin Belisario, a Venezuelan attorney and businessman, to its Most Wanted list for conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - This week, Emanuel D. Haudley, Sr., of Shonto, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael T. Liburdi to 235 months of imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release. Haudley had previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of McKees Rocks, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, cocaine and heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - Two armed probationers caught breaking into multiple vehicles in a Macon residential area admitted to their crimes and will be sentenced on April 1, 2020, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Quenshon Travez Robinson, 23, and Deshae Amondai...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa.-A former resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. -- An Illinois man today admitted conspiring to transport heroin and cocaine to New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced Craig Davis, age 49, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 200 months in federal prison following his convictions for possession of firearms by a convicted felon and possession with the intent to distribute...
