News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Matthew Podgorski, 23, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison by United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana. There is no parole in the federal system. In addition to his prison term, he will serve four years of supervised release following his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Box Elder woman today admitted she stabbed a man in the hand and chest with a butterfly knife on the Rocky Boy’s Reservation last year, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that BRYAN DUNCAN, ROBERT LOCUST, and RYAN RAINFORD were sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein to prison in connection with their participation in a multimillion-dollar trip-and-fall fraud scheme. DUNCAN was sentenced to 80 months in prison; RAINFORD was sentenced to 68 months in prison; and LOCUST was sentenced to 60 months in prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A South Texas man was sentenced, Jan. 8, to 10 years in federal prison for attempted coercion and enticement of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Richard Whitcomb, 40, of White River Junction, was sentenced in the United States District Court in Rutland today to 37 months in prison after his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Chief Judge Geoffrey...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX - Last week, DaNeil Francis Wilson, II, 33, of Hunters Point, Arizona, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 252 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. During a jury trial in April 2019, Wilson pleaded guilty to five counts of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, two counts of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, two counts of Kidnapping, and one count of Assault by Strangling or Suffocating.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two defendants pled guilty for their roles in a conspiracy that involved large quantities of methamphetamine which were transported from Akron and sold in West Virginia, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - John Foster, 56, of Portsmouth, pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to four counts of wire fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Julia Pease, Ft. Thompson, South Dakota, and Chad Pease, Chamberlain, South Dakota, were convicted of Aiding and Abetting Sexual Abuse of a Minor, and sentenced by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Akbar Muhammad, age 42, who resided in New York City and East Stroudsburg, pleaded guilty on January 7, 2019, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz., on January 7, 2020, Lana Leshinsky, 43, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Raner C. Collins to 10 years of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. Leshinsky previously pleaded guilty to distribution of fentanyl resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: A Broken Arrow woman was arraigned Wednesday in U.S. District Court for stealing $654,579 from her employer. Brandy Okey, 39, is charged with wire fraud and filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding was sentenced on January 6, 2020, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: Scranton, PA - Today, U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Duwan Antonio Raymond - a 31-year old man with past addresses in Nanticoke.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: In today’s modern world we use electricity to help us deal with the longer hours of darkness that come with winter. But what was it like for pioneers like the Lincolns in the 1820s? On Saturday, January 18 visitors will have an opportunity to find out when interpreters and volunteers at Lincoln Boyhood...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: Birmingham, Ala. - A federal jury yesterday convicted a man of having a firearm in furtherance of drug distribution in Birmingham, 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 8, 2020
News Release: A Philadelphia-area doctor was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine yesterday for the illegal distribution of oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Shelley Devaughn Cook (42, Ocala) today pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years, and up to life, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Allen Craig, of Ranson, West Virginia, has admitted to his role in a cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl drug distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison for exploiting several young men and a woman in a national sex trafficking operation.
