News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Rocky Mount, NC - The U.S. Marshals, Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force (CRFTF), announce the arrest of Travon Kierre Baker, age 20, of Baltimore, Maryland. Baker was arrested Sunday morning in Baltimore, MD, by the U.S. Marshals and the Maryland State Police. Baker was wanted in connection with a homicide that occurred in Rocky Mount, North Carolina earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERIC BURRUSS, also known as “E," 40, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Michael McCaul, the committee’s ranking member, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Local First Responder & Youth Safety Supporter Theresa Kent to be Honored by FBI Director.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Tuscaloosa man on gun and drug charges, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that NATALIE MAYFLOWER SOURS EDWARDS, a/k/a “Natalie Sours," a/k/a “Natalie May Edwards," a/k/a “May Edwards," a former senior adviser at the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN"), pled guilty today to conspiring to unlawfully disclose Suspicious Activity Reports (“SARs"). EDWARDS pled guilty before United States District Judge Gregory H. Woods.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin expressing concern about the Ortega regime’s blatant disregard for human rights and systematic dismantling of democratic institutions in Nicaragua, and to ask that specific actions be taken immediately to reverse this dangerous course.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Eddie Lee Padgett, 62, of Daphne, Alabama, was sentenced on January 9, 2020, in federal court for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine. Padgett was convicted following a jury...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement in support of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule to clarify the standard to determine joint-employer status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)...
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 Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND - John Philip Stirling, 65, a Canadian citizen, pleaded guilty in federal court today to one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine under the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA).
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) seeks public input on a plan to allow bicycle use on the newly constructed Arches Visitor Center Connector Trail. The trail connects the Arches visitor center to the Moab Canyon Pathway and was built in accordance with national guidelines for shared use paths. NPS Regulation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - William Curry Brown, 26, of Elizabeth, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court today before United States District Judge Donetta W. Ambrose to two counts of terroristic attacks and violence against a railroad carrier and mass transportation on land, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§1992(a)(5) and (a)(10) and 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell today sentenced Andres Fernandez (38, Orlando) to 10 years in federal prison for wire fraud. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment of $14.98 million, representing the losses suffered by the victims of Fernandez’s fraud scheme. Fernandez had pleaded guilty to 12 counts of wire fraud on August 6, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va.-A Huntington woman was sentenced to federal prison for embezzlement, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Frances McComas, 57, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison and five years of supervised release for embezzling money from a federal credit union. She also was ordered to pay $1,000 a month in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Clinton Jean-Pierre, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced today to 70 months incarceration for identity theft through use of a computer, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Owner of Tax Preparation Business Pleads Guilty to Filing False Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, as of today, Samuel Fuller, 33, of Orleans, Vermont; James Bassett, 40, of North Troy, Vermont; Luis Luna, 28, of Hartford, Connecticut; and Edwin Martinez, aka “Pino," 26, of Hartford, Connecticut, have each pleaded guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Alex Smith, a/k/a Skeet, age 34, of Halethorpe, Maryland, on federal charges of conspiracy to commit a commercial robbery, attempted robbery, and using, carrying, and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, related to the attempted ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Shannon L. Keiffer, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to five years probation for a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
