News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that David Ohmar Harris, 27, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced Jan. 10, 2020, by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 15 years in federal prison for producing child pornography. This term of imprisonment will be followed by 25 years of supervised release. Harris pleaded guilty to this charge on October 7, 2019.
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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Eleven defendants have been indicted for their roles in a $1.7 million conspiracy to distribute 150 kilograms of methamphetamine and 10 kilograms of heroin, as well as illegally possessing numerous firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Frederick Bernard Morgan, 51, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - The Pu‘u Pua‘i Overlook, parking lot and a short section of Devastation Trail have reopened in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park.
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: BOSTON - A South Boston man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Defendant Possessed Over 90,000 Sexually Explicit Images and Videos of Minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Kansas man pleaded guilty today to committing an armed robbery at a Family Dollar in south Wichita, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and 29 of her Democratic Senate colleagues, sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn criticizing the FDA’s decision...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: COOLIDGE, AZ - On Jan. 22, 2020 Casa Grande Ruins will host Marshall Shore as part of its annual speaker series. The presentation will begin at noon on January 22 featuring Marshall Shore who will present a lecture titled "LGBTQ: A History in Arizona". The speaker series will continue every Wednesday at noon through March 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: LOS ÁNGELES - El Departamento de Justicia anunció hoy que ha presentado una demanda que alega que los propietarios y un administrador de dos edificios residenciales en el barrio de Westlake en Los Ángeles acosaron sexualmente a sus inquilinas por más de una década, en contra de la ley federal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ELVIN GONZALEZ, 38, Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Benjamin Lee Parsons, 31, of Mineral Wells, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for possessing firearms after being involuntarily committed to a mental hospital. Upon release from prison, Parsons will serve three years of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Ryan T. Young Named Assistant Director of the Directorate of Intelligence.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign helps educate GA pilots about safety, including loss of control (LOC), powerplant failure, and controlled flight into terrain (CFIT).
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: TWIN FALLS, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management Burley Field Office will implement an annual seasonal motorized travel closure in the South Hills area Thursday, January 16 to Sunday, March 15, to prevent resource damage and protect crucial mule deer winter range and sage-grouse habitat. The area is still open to the public for non-motorized use.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid has sentenced Raymone Stephens, 31, of Bloomington, Illinois., to 16 years and 8 months in prison for his role in a crack cocaine trafficking conspiracy in 2018. Stephens, sentenced on Jan. 9, 2020, has been in the custody of the U.S. Marshals since his arrest in November 2018, and will be transferred to the federal Bureau of Prisons to serve his sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: A South Portland man was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Portland for Attempted Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park announces its upcoming flight plans for January 2020.
