News from January 2020

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DON MEEKER, 33, of West Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 73 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a Meriden carjacking.

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, will hold the Committee’s third hearing this Congress focused on facial recognition technology. This hearing will examine the sale and use of commercial facial recognition technology by private industry, civilians, and government entities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: FBI Seeking Information on El Cajon Bank Robber.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Dorian Trayvon Richardson, 19, of Loxley, Alabama, was sentenced on January 9, 2020 in federal court for his involvement in the burglary of a federally licensed firearms dealer in Foley, Alabama. Court documents ...
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man pleaded guilty today to driving the getaway car in a series of commercial robberies, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Long-time drug dealer sold drugs from his house when his children were present.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A man with citizenship in Lebanon and the United States pleaded guilty today to a two-count criminal information charging him with child exploitation offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Co-Defendant Pleaded Guilty on the Eve of Trial, Also Admitting to a Second Shooting- Has Agreed to 30-Year Sentence.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Former U.S. Postal Service employee Elizabeth Shante Brown, 29, of Panama.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that German Eduardo Barahona, 29, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced on January 9, 2020, in federal court for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Court documents show that Barahona was driving...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta has affirmed the convictions of former United States Congresswoman Corrine Brown for various fraud and tax offenses. The Court also upheld the district court’s order that Brown forfeit more than $600,000 in proceeds she obtained from her crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former Vice President of Managed Markets for Insys Therapeutics was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in conspiring to bribe practitioners to prescribe fentanyl-based pain medication, often when medically unnecessary.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: This afternoon a 26-year-old male surfer from Manteo, North Carolina received a non-life-threatening injury, possibly from a shark, off Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A Pittsburgh-area man pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of assault of federal employees, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Through Drug Diversion, Seven (Known) Patients Were Infected With Hepatitis-C.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Shavon Craig, of Kearneysville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 24 months incarceration for his role in a cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Alexandria charging Daniel Dewayne Aikens, 37, of Alexandria, for an extortion scheme involving threats and the detonation of two pipe bombs, announced David C. Joseph, United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - An Ohio woman pled guilty today to possessing a quantity of methamphetamine in relation to drug trafficking, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Danielle Seagraves pled guilty to possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
Release: More information about Spain is available on the Spain Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.