News from January 2020
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
Release: More information about Mozambique is available on the Mozambique Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Jason J. Molina, Acting Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), today announced that JASON KELLER, 34, originally of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, has been charged in a two-count indictment with child enticement and child pornography offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), assisted by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Fugitive Task Force, arrested Rene Antonio “Scrapy" Hernandez-Mejia, a Salvadoran national wanted in El Salvador, Jan. 8.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Kickbacks Generate Expensive Compounded Drug Prescriptions.
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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Mohammed Alawi, 52, of Lackawanna, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, a controlled substance, and distribution of a controlled substance in or near schools. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison and a $2,000,000 fine.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Dina Titus (D-NV) will be inviting the General Services Administration (GSA) to testify at a public hearing about the Trump Organization’s desire to sell its lease of the Old Post Office Building and the GSA’s stonewalling of Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: TERRE HAUTE - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that Dakota S. Lovellette, 19, and Nicholas P. Apple, 22, both of Vincennes, Ind., were indicted by a grand jury for charges of conspiring to make a false statement and making a false statement in connection with the acquisition of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Gian Carlo Clemente Pangilinan, 23, of Anchorage, was found guilty 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 10, 2020
News Release: Defendants falsified federal firearms purchase forms.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $5.4 million civil penalty against The Boeing Co. for allegedly installing nonconforming slat tracks on approximately 178 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, which Boeing subsequently presented as ready for airworthiness certification.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Lavon Wims, 27, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of six counts of Hobbs Act robbery, in connection with a string of robberies at Rochester area businesses, was sentenced to serve 108 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $4,013.70.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - United States Attorney David C. Weiss announced that Donte Jacobs, 31, of New Castle County, was sentenced today to 24 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Richard G. Andrews. Jacobs had previously been convicted at trial of distributing and conspiring to distribute fentanyl-laced heroin that resulted in the death of a 26-year-old woman. Jacobs had also pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm recovered during the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Cory Shane Disotell, 48, of Port Barre, Louisiana, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert R. Summerhays to serve 262 months in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for transporting a minor with the intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced that McKinley Earl Morant, age 35, of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison followed by a three-year term of supervised release after pleading guilty in September 2019 to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Senior United States District Judge Cameron M. Currie imposed the sentence.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) released the following statement today praising House passage of H.R. 535, the PFAS Action Act of 2019, which passed the full House of Representatives by a vote of 247-159...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Jimmy Riascos-Riascos, 44, Colombia, South America, was sentenced to 24 years and 4 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine on board vessels subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Riascos-Riascos had pleaded guilty on July 18, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mandan, North Dakota, man convicted of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child and Aggravated Incest was sentenced on January 9, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) released the following statement today praising House passage of H.R. 535, the PFAS Action Act of 2019, which passed the full House of Representatives by a vote of 247-159...
