News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - Two men have pleaded guilty in January for their roles in a heroin trafficking operation with ties to Mexico’s New Generation Cartel, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: By Robert J. Higdon, Jr., Matthew G.T. Martin, R. Andrew Murray and A. Lance Crick*.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A member of a Camden drug-trafficking organization pleaded guilty today to distributing significant amounts of illegal drugs in Camden, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: A Detroit man pleaded guilty today to conspiring with others to force and coerce at least 6 women to engage in prostitution in the Detroit area, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: ROCKFORD - Three Rockford-area residents were arrested today by federal and local law enforcement officers on drug-trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Jason Matthew Porterfield, 37, of Shreveport, was sentenced today, by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote, to serve 130 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Porterfield pleaded guilty on May 22, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: ROCKFORD - Three Rockford area residents were arrested today by federal and local law enforcement officers on drug-trafficking charges. ANTOWAN S. LAMBERT, also known as "Twan," 42, of Rockton, Ill., and JESSE M. LEAVY, also known as "Lil Jesse" and "Lil Head," 35, of Rockford, were arrested on charges ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: EFFINGHAM COUNTY, GA-The FBI, in coordination with Effingham County Sheriff Jimmy McDuffie and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect(s) responsible for a series of laser strikes on aircraft approaching the Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport (SAV).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Illegally Worked Using Someone Else’s Social Security Number.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A South Texas man was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 78 months in prison following his conviction on several counts related to child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced brothers JUSTIN and STERLING WHITAKER, 27 and 22, of Goldsboro, North Carolina. JUSTIN WHITAKER received a sentence of 147 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release. STERLING WHITAKER was sentenced to 126 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, La. - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ANIL PRASAD, M.D., age 63, a resident of Covington, Louisiana was sentenced on Jan. 28, 2020 by U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to 24 months’ imprisonment followed by (3) three years of supervised release, with the condition...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 26 year-old man has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions of receipt, possession and distribution of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA -Johnna Dee Courtney, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, has admitted to methamphetamine and counterfeit charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement after President Trump signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) into law. McCaul joined President Trump at the White House for the signing ceremony today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Jason Clevenger, 35, of Bremen, Indiana was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty following a guilty plea for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Brendon Rothrock, age 21, of Kannapolis, North Carolina, formerly of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Jan. 28, 2020, by a federal grand jury on child exploitation charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Krystal Sanspree, 31, of Foley, Alabama, was sentenced today in federal court on a charge of production of child pornography. Sanspree pled guilty to the charge in June of 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Ramzi Al Najar, 43, of Staten Island, New York, was convicted of tobacco smuggling after a week-long jury trial presided over by United States District Court Judge Petrese B. Tucker.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, sentenced EZEKIAL SANDOVAL, 49, of Raleigh to 240 months’ imprisonment. SANDOVAL was named in a 12-count Indictment on May 22, 2019, charging him with one...
