News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A tribe member today was arraigned in federal court before U.S. District Magistrate Judge Carla Baldwin for the murder of an individual on tribal land, announced Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - Francisco Joseph Arcila Ramirez (Arcila), a Colombian national and South Florida resident was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez for illegally selling firearms to the National Liberation Army (ELN), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization and a violent paramilitary group operating in South America.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A former resident of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on violations of federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - A Cuban man in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) passed away Monday morning at Larkin Community Hospital in Miami where he had been receiving inpatient medical treatment since January 23.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The leader and the main treasurer of the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ were sentenced to federal prison today for their respective roles in a scheme in which both men caused the church to pay millions of dollars in personal expenses for the leader that the leader then omitted from his personal tax returns, U.S Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released the following statement after the issuance of the Trump administration’s report on the effort to combat trafficking in counterfeit and pirated goods.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a Tuscaloosa man for two armed robberies in Tuscaloosa, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Montrose, CO - Join National Park Service rangers and the Gunnison Nordic Club for a moonlight ski at Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park on February 8.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Federal grand juries in Maryland and Delaware have returned indictments charging alleged members of the racially motivated violent extremist group “The Base" with firearms and alien-related charges. Both federal indictments charge Brian Mark Lemley, Jr., age 33, of Elkton, Maryland...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a Colombian national Monday who was wanted by Spanish law enforcement authorities for drug trafficking and money laundering.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - Learn how to make smoke art with Lynne Kistler and take a guided tour of the murals at the California Trail Interpretive Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Former Illinois State Sen. MARTIN A. SANDOVAL pleaded guilty today in federal court in Chicago to bribery and tax offenses included in an information filed in federal court Monday.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - A planned maintenance outage starting in mid-February at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) will efficiently consolidate multiple projects at the nation’s only underground transuranic waste repository.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Nisha Brathwaite, age 38, and Darlene Thompson, age 37, both from the Virgin Islands and living on the mainland United States pled guilty on Jan. 21, 2020 and Jan. 24, 2020, respectively, to conspiracy to defraud the United States.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), today introduced an emergency supplemental appropriations bill to provide support to Puerto Rico following a series of recent earthquakes. The legislation is expected to be considered in the House next week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell today sentenced Shamon D. Heatly (37, St. Petersburg) to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for selling cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on Jan. 27, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The Drug Enforcement Administration announced today the arrest of 11 people as the result of the culmination of a year-long joint investigation by the DEA’s Sierra Vista Resident Office along with the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s Border Strike Force, into the alleged drug trafficking activities of Luis Agustin Montaño Hernandez and his drug trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: FBI Warns of Scammers Spoofing FBI Phone Number in Government Impersonation Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - A federal jury has found Jimmy Ray Lightsey (39, Jacksonville) guilty of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, possessing controlled substances with the intent to distribute, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Lightsey, who qualifies as an Armed Career Criminal, faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years, and up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 27, 2020.
