News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Herbert Thomas, 41, of Jackson, was sentenced today before Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan to 30 months confinement, three years of supervised release, and a $1500 fine, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Machesney Park man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp, Jr., to one count of armed robbery, one count of robbery, and one count of using and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: A former Los Angeles-area physician was sentenced today to 24 months in prison and three years of supervised release for engaging in a multi-faceted Medicare fraud scheme and for illegally prescribing thousands of opioid painkillers and muscle relaxers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Social Security Administration (SSA) employee who stole more than $176,000 in Social Security benefits designated for elderly and disabled people was sentenced today to 15 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Arinze Michael Ozor, age 36, of Bowie, Maryland, a dual citizen of the United States and Nigeria, pleaded guilty on Jan. 3, 2020, to federal charges of forgery or false use of a passport, in connection with his use of false passports to open “drop accounts" for a money laundering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Samuel James Gulick, 18, of Middletown, Delaware was charged today in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware in connection with utilizing an incendiary device to damage the Planned Parenthood facility in Newark, Delaware on Jan. 3, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: Salem, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest Oregon District, Upper Willamette Field Office will hold a public meeting on the Marcola Sunrise Timber Management Project on Jan. 23, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Arinze Michael Ozor, age 36, of Bowie, Maryland, a dual citizen of the United States and Nigeria, pleaded guilty on Jan. 3, 2020, to federal charges of forgery or false use of a passport, in connection with his use of false passports to open “drop accounts" for a money laundering conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: (BELLE FOURCHE, S.D.) - If you would like to have input into the travel management plan for the Center of the Nation Travel Management Area, you will get your chance beginning on Jan. 14 as the BLM South Dakota Field Office gathers scoping comments on the upcoming planning project that includes BLM lands in Butte and Harding counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar today sentenced Kevin Daniel Mongold, Jr., age 22, of Halethorpe, Maryland, to 23 years in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for production of child pornography. Chief Judge Bredar also ordered that, upon his release...
By State Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement in support of interim President Juan Guaido’s re-election as President of Venezuela’s National Assembly.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Sirvonn Taylor, age 37, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment on Jan. 3, 2020, by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for heading-up a conspiracy that forced or coerced women to engage in prostitution in northeastern Pennsylvania, and that distributed more than a kilogram of heroin in Pennsylvania and Maine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Carlsbad Field Office invites you to participate in a public scoping process to gather input regarding the preparation of an environmental assessment (EA) for OLC Kermit, LLC’s (OLC) proposed Kermit Overland Conveyor Project (BLM Serial No. NM-140852). OLC...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - A Texas man has admitted he knew he had received significantly more income what he claimed on his 2015 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: Sacramento Fugitive Extradited From Mexico. SACRAMENTO-The Federal Bureau of Investigation Sacramento Field Office announces the extradition of Jose Cruz Naranjo Silva, 77, from Mexico. The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department arrested Silva for committing a lewd or lascivious act with a child under...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A St. Joseph, Ill., man, William M. Bell, 40, who was previously an information technology employee of Monticello, Ill., community unit school district 25, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for child pornography crimes. Bell has remained in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service since his arrest on Feb. 8, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - Kenneth Bernard Smith, 55, of Winter Garden, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for possessing a loaded firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon, and for possessing with the intent to distribute heroin and cocaine. Smith had previously pleaded guilty to the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar today sentenced Kevin Daniel Mongold, Jr., age 22, of Halethorpe, Maryland, to 23 years in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for production of child pornography. Chief Judge Bredar also ordered that, upon his release...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: William Craig Whisman came to a parking lot in Plano with a stuffed toy, intending to have sex with a young girl whose father had offered her up in a website chatroom. Earlier, Whisman had sent two videos to the father in which Whisman simulated the acts he wanted to commit on the young girl. Now, he was there to make his fantasy a reality.
