News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy Alan Himelright, of Inwood, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 121 months incarceration for distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: North Carolina Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty to Preparing False Returns.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Crystal Marie Dacus, 38, of Foley, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court for her involvement in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of the drug trafficking felony. Dacus had entered a guilty plea to the charges, and United States District Court Judge Kristi K. Dubose imposed a sentence totaling 84 months imprisonment.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - William Ronald Monroe, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 120 months incarceration for a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: On Jan. 10, 2020, a Guatemalan national was sentenced in the Southern District of Florida to eight years in prison for labor trafficking a minor.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Local children and teens who like art and wildflowers will have a chance to combine both in Shenandoah National Park’s annual “Youth Art in the Park" wildflower art contest. The contest is held in conjunction with the park’s annual Wildflower Weekend May 9-10, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich’s Remarks at Press Conference on Naval Air Station Pensacola Shooting.

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, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Lori Owen (48, Holiday) with 14 counts of fraud, 4 counts of money laundering, and 2 counts of aggravated identity theft. If convicted, Owens faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Birmingham man on gun and drug charges, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Elijah Richter, 28, of Camino, pleaded guilty today to distribution of a controlled substance known as 25I-NBOMe that caused death, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GERUND MICKENS, also known as “Breeze," 44, of Bloomfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to life in prison for his role in the kidnapping, robbery and the execution-style murder of Charles Teasley, 35, of West Hartford, in January 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: Worked using a fraudulent “green card" and stolen Social Security Number of another person after being deported five times.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Attempted Receipt of Child Pornography was sentenced on Jan. 13, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lancaster, Kentucky, man, Arthur Eugene Butler, 41, admitted in federal court Friday, before U.S. District Court Judge Danny C. Reeves, to possessing and distributing visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The founder and operator of a Swiss asset management firm pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to charges that he engaged with others in a massive global securities fraud scheme that netted proceeds of approximately $164 million.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - James Joseph Michaels, of Wellsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
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: Boulder, C.O. - On Friday, January 17th at 10 AM, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law will hold a field hearing in Boulder, CO to examine the state of competition in the digital marketplace. The hearing, entitled Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 5: ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a DeKalb County man to 21months in prison for violation of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and U.S. Marshal Martin Keely.