News from January 2020
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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A Bristol, Virginia man pleaded guilty last week in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to charges related to the distribution of methamphetamine and firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that two individuals, Aaron C. Smith (Age: 27), formerly of Keshena, Wisconsin and Keanna R. King (Age: 26), of Keshena, Wisconsin received sentences after convictions related to a firearms offense on the Menominee Indian Reservation.
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 Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: LAKE HAVASU, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Lake Havasu Field Office has completed a two-month improvement project at Bass Point Day Use Area to remodel an informational kiosk, repair fence posts and cable, paint and repair the vault toilet, remove overgrown vegetation, and lay gravel in the parking area. The maintenance staff also posted new signage to improve the visitor’s experience. The recreation area will be available for public use starting January 8.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on Jan. 3, 2020, Rebecca Canfield, age 46, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and health care fraud. Canfield will serve 48 months of supervised release following her release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Elfego Alcala, 47, Tamilene Cisneros, 49, and Aida Corona, 38, of Visalia, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy and production of false identification documents, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 27-year-old resident of Laredo has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute nearly eight kilograms of fentanyl, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Garrett Storm Hickey has been sentenced for a string of unarmed bank robberies in north Georgia and Alabama, which had gone unsolved for three years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Joseph Vasquez Jr., 32, of Modesto, was sentenced today to 26 years and eight months in prison for an operation that distributed methamphetamine from Modesto to Juneau, Alaska, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced on January 6, 2020, that Antonio Jamerson (age: 21) was sentenced to 124 months’ imprisonment and Elix Powell (age: 21) was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment for their involvement in the armed robbery of the Swan Serv-U Pharmacy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former member of the U.S. Navy was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for her role in an interstate gun trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that several defendants were sentenced by the Honorable Juan R. Sanchez for their involvement in a years’ long drug distribution conspiracy and related crimes, the last of whom, Bryant Calloway, was sentenced today to lifetime imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Kern County man was sentenced today to 84 months in federal prison for robbing banks in Long Beach and San Luis Obispo County while he brandished what appeared to be a handgun at the victim tellers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Phillip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Kern County man was sentenced today to 84 months in federal prison for robbing banks in Long Beach and San Luis Obispo County while he brandished what appeared to be a handgun at the victim tellers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former doctor was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for engaging in a multi-faceted Medicare fraud scheme, and also for illegal prescribing thousands of opioid painkillers and muscle relaxants.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Aaron Bangaroo, age 37, formerly of Kingston, Luzerne County, was sentenced on Jan. 3, 2020, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, to serve seventy-five months’ imprisonment for possession with intent to distribute heroin and possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A former Providence attorney pleaded guilty in federal court to charges that he fraudulently collected more than a quarter of a million dollars in pension funds in the name of a former client for nearly twelve years after the man’s death.
