News from January 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: DETROIT - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has named Vance Callender as the new special agent in charge over Michigan and Ohio for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) office, based in Detroit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUAN CARLOS FIGUEROA, 40, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 35 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine and methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: NORMAN, Okla. - The Bureau of Land Management will hold a wild horse and burro event in Giddings, Texas, Jan. 31-Feb.1 at the Lee County Sheriff’s Posse Arena. The two-day event, featuring 75 wild horses and burros, will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 31. Adoptions will be held from noon-6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 31, and from 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Feb. 1. Animals are eligible for adoption. Inquire with BLM staff onsite for more information.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, WILLIAM TODD CHAMBERLAIN, 46, of Raleigh pled guilty to Conspiracy and Receiving Stolen Government Property before United States Magistrate Judge Kimberly A. Swank. At sentencing before Senior United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former commissioner with the now-defunct Paterson Municipal Utilities Authority was sentenced today to 35 months in prison for engaging in two separate schemes to steal funds from the Paterson Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA), U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: A man who sold a rifle during an undercover operation was sentenced on Jan. 10, 2020, to more than one year in federal prison.
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: Chattanooga, Tenn. - On Jan. 10, 2020, Matthew John Jurado, 52, currently of Tracy, California, was sentenced by the Honorable Travis R. McDonough, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Mr. Jurado was sentenced to 120 months in prison, followed by five years’ supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUAN CARLOS FIGUEROA, 40, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 35 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine and methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to heroin trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: NOAA is kicking off a year-long celebration to mark its upcoming 50th anniversary. Since its inception on Oct. 3, 1970, NOAA has become one of the world’s premier science agencies that protects life and
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Judy Raley Townley, 58, and William Erwin Townley, 52, both of Elberta, Alabama, were sentenced in federal court for their participation in a drug distribution operation involving both methamphetamine ice and the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-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 DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final joint employer rule, which will make it easier for corporations to skirt responsibility...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Gian Carlo Clemente Pangilinan, 23, of Anchorage, was found guilty on Jan. 10, 2019, after a three-day federal jury trial. The jury found Pangilinan guilty of one count of possession of more than 50 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Officers Seized 77 Firearms, Large Amounts of Illegal Drugs During the Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Michigan, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of escape after conviction, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
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: EUGENE, Ore.-David George Hopkins, 61, San Diego, California, was sentenced today to 200 months in federal prison and a life term of supervised release for traveling with the intent to engage in sex with a minor and other related charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news reports that the Russian government hacked Burisma in Ukraine, possibly for political purposes...
