News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Daniel Trevino manufactured and distributed marijuana throughout Michigan for years in violation of federal drug laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Dayton, OH - U.S. Marshal Pete Tobin is pleased to announce during the early hours of Jan. 29, 2020 the U.S. Marshal’s Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST) with the assistance of the Dayton Police Department arrested Sean Chappell and Tony Jackson. The men were wanted by the Dayton Police Department for an aggravated robbery that took place Aug. 29, 2019; where 29 firearms were stolen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities this morning arrested three top administrators of a Philippines-based church on federal charges of participating in an immigration fraud scheme that brought church members to the United States to work as fundraisers, and then arranged sham marriages and other illegal mechanisms to keep high-performing workers in the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Councilman Johnson accused of taking bribes, using public office to benefit Universal.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after President Trump signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s (USMCA) implementing legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - The former Vice President of Electronic Banking for First Bank & Trust pled guilty today in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to federal embezzlement charges, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a hearing titled “Stakeholder Perspectives on the Importance of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the arrest and filing of a complaint charging Michael Nelson Snyder (28, Tampa) with using a firearm during and in relation to the armed robbery of a jewelry store. If convicted, Snyder faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced that next week’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing will be held on Wednesday, February 5, at 10:30 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Vaping in America: E-Cigarette Manufacturers’ Impact on Public Health."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - A convicted felon faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty to planning and executing a string of armed robberies and carjackings across Georgia and South Carolina in November 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Nathan Y.G. Lum, 62, of Honolulu, Hawaii, was sentenced today in federal court by United States District Judge Derrick K. Watson to 30 months of imprisonment and one year of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $314,178.27. On March 28, 2019, Lum pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft in connection with theft of government funds and failure to file a tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Andrew Campbell, 33, formerly of Albion, NY, now living in North Carolina, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 78 months in prison by U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Cleveland, OH - Late this evening members of the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force arrested Frederick Hampton, 50. Hampton was wanted by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in Birmingham, Alabama for sex offender registration violations and abuse of a corpse.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a Brazilian citizen wanted in his home country on charges of attempted murder and illegal possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Every year thousands of Americans overdose on fentanyl, a laboratory-created opioid that is 50 times stronger than heroin. Fentanyl is often smuggled into the United States from China and Mexico, and because fentanyl is made in a lab, chemists can change its structure to create what are known as “fentanyl...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Janice May White, of Kerens, West Virginia, has admitted to selling methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing titled, “Empowering and Connecting Communities through Digital Equity and Internet Adoption."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Makayla Morrissey, 33, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on Jan. 29, 2020, to 15 months in prison by United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: DETROIT - Eight individuals from around the country who were charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud and harboring aliens for profit, have been sentenced, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - Friends of New River Gorge National River (Friends) hosted their first photo competition on Jan. 18, 2020 at Adventures on the Gorge in Fayetteville, WV. The winning photographs taken by local West Virginia photographers celebrate the rich beauty of southern West Virginia. All photographs...
