News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced DELTON EUGENE WARREN, 56, of Fayetteville to 138 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man pleaded guilty today for conspiracy to straw purchase 31 firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: New York Man Charged With Trafficking Exotic African Cats.
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 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 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Yarmouthport man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a wide-ranging operation that distributed heroin and fentanyl throughout Cape Cod.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Michael Christian Steever, 39, of Keene, was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison for possession of fentanyl and cocaine base with intent to distribute and distribution of fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced ANTHONY GABRIEL JOHNSON, 42, of Fayetteville, NC, today. JOHNSON was sentenced to 212 months imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of West Mifflin, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on a charge of illegal sale of firearms by a licensed dealer to an out-of-state resident, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: NOAA Fisheries has issued a final biological opinion on construction and operation of the Jordan Cove terminal in Coos Bay, Oregon, and the associated 229-mile long Pacific Connector Liquid Natural Gas pipeline. After conducting a thorough review, NOAA scientists determined that the proposed action does not jeopardize protected species or adversely modify their critical habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - Jason L. Wentworth, age 35, of Oneonta, New York, was sentenced on January 2 to five years of probation for stealing Social Security survivors benefits and for making false statements to the Social Security Administration that enabled Wentworth to obtain those benefits.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released the following statement regarding the passing of Chris Allen, Senior Advisor for Benefits and Exempt Organizations on the Senate Finance Committee majority staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-A doctor and a medical sales representative have been charged in a scheme to pay and receive kickbacks to generate expensive prescriptions for compounded drugs. TRICARE, the military’s health insurer, paid over $12 million for the prescriptions, which the indictment alleges were rubber stamped...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging CARLOS BARNES, also known as “Buddha," 28, of New Haven, with possession of firearms by a previously convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Contacts: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Jason Wettstein, e-mail us, 360-902-2254. Conservation Northwest, Chase Gunnell, cgunnell@conservationnw.org, 206-465-8591. Mount Rainier National Park, Kevin Bacher, e-mail us, 360-569-6567. Calgary Zoo, Alison Archambault, mediarelations@calgaryzoo.com...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss announced that Kristian James O’Hara, age 25, of Bardonia, New York, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison by the Honorable Colm F. Connolly, U.S. District Judge for the District of Delaware. O’Hara pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit cyberstalking on April 3, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James Walton, 48, formerly of Webster, NY, who was convicted of bank fraud, was sentenced to serve 18 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. In addition, Walton was ordered to pay restitution totaling approximately $53,768.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man pled guilty to a gun crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Harry Lee Nguyen, 23, pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Trish Covey, 50, of Fairlee, pleaded not guilty today in United States District Court in Burlington to a charge of credit card fraud. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy released Covey on conditions pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Belgian man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for participating in an e-mail scam that used counterfeit cashier’s checks to defraud charities and law firms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A resident of Kannapolis, North Carolina, was sentenced today in federal court in Greensboro for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, announced United States Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin of the Middle District of North Carolina.
