News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Three people in their twenties have entered guilty pleas in separate but similar cases involving the smuggling of minor children in October 2019, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: “Today is Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. I am profoundly grateful for the service that our law enforcement officers render to our community and our Nation. They risk their lives and wellbeing every day to protect us. They are often overworked and underpaid. Yet with no hesitation, they run toward...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced today that United States District Judge Daniel Domenico has approved an order resolving claims that Creekside Condominium Homeowners Association (Creekside HOA), located in Snowmass Village, Colorado, violated the Fair Housing Act when it failed to allow a resident with a disability to stay at the complex with her assistance dog.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Jason Rhodes Pleads Guilty to Participating in Multimillion-Dollar Fraud Scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Ricardo Gabriele-Plage, 39, was sentenced to four years in prison by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley for an identity-theft scheme, announced Special Agent in Charge Tatum King of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) San Francisco Field Office and U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott, Jan. 9.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Sentences. Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson sentenced DANIEL ISAAC VASQUEZ MORENO, 30, of El Salvador on January 6, 2020 for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Moreno was arrested in Gillette, Wyoming. He received four months of imprisonment, to be followed...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 44-year-old Canton, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., and Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Christopher Casacci, 38, of Amherst, NY, with violating the Lacey Act and the U.S. Animal Welfare Act based on his alleged trafficking of African wild cats in interstate commerce. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas; announced today that Danny Witt, age 50, was sentenced today to 188 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release on one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute More Than...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Antonio Sims, 39, Janesville, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 46 months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Sims pled guilty to this offense on October 8, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that United States District Judge Terry F. Moorer sentenced defendant Alexis Hernandez, 23, of Houston, Texas, to imprisonment for 12 months for unlawfully transporting illegal aliens in the United States. As...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -A federal judge today sentenced a Tuscaloosa man on gun and drug charges, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Harrisonburg, VIRGINIA - A former case manager at the Northwestern Community Services Board [NWCSB] pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Harrisonburg to illegally accessing the health care information of another individual, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: D'IBERVILLE, MS - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Advanced Construction & Development LLC - based in Biloxi, Mississippi - for exposing employees to excavation hazards at a D'Iberville, Mississippi, worksite. The contractor faces $79,559 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Cocaine, Drug Paraphernalia, and Multiple Firearms Were Seized.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Former civil servant misrepresented the condition of military equipment, jeopardizing U.S. Army’s war-ready posture.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Newark police officer today admitted soliciting and accepting cash payments from a brothel owner in Newark in exchange for protecting brothels from police action, and to failing to report those cash payments on his personal federal income tax returns, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JORGE PADILLA pled guilty today to defrauding victims of more than $900,000 by soliciting investments in a sham financial firm based on misrepresentations and fraudulent documents. PADILLA pled guilty before U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - A federal jury today found Robert Christopher Sunmonu (22, St. Petersburg) guilty of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute it, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Sunmonu faces a mandatory minimum penalty of five years, and up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A Jackson, Georgia man caught dropping off a large amount of illicit drugs and contraband at a Georgia Correctional Industries (GCI) meat packing plant was sentenced to 200 months in prison, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Brandon...
