News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Kia Zolfaghari was sentenced today to 200 months in prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Susan Illston, Senior United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: TULSA, Okla. -A federal jury today returned a guilty verdict against a man who trafficked a woman through force and coercion then attempted to obstruct the investigation into his crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland-area real estate developer James Tong was sentenced to 15 months in prison today for funneling tens of thousands of dollars of his own money through straw donors into two consecutive congressional campaigns for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Fort Mitchell, Kentucky man, Joseph Shockey, 53, pleaded guilty to bank fraud in federal court Friday, before U.S. District Court Danny C. Reeves.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Steven D. Sims, began his new duties on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020 and as a first order of business will welcome Kristina Heister as the acting deputy superintendent of Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site. She will serve in this position for 120 days beginning on Feb. 2, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Kyle Paul Vance, age 24, of Shelton, Washington, was sentenced today to 210 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole followed by 15 years of supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Christopher Mesick, 38 of Jeffersonville, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury sitting in Burlington with being a felon in possession of a firearm and with being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: TYLER, Texas - U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown announced today that nine individuals have been arrested pursuant to a federal indictment charging them with drug and firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - On December 6, 2018, a federal grand jury indicted former Memphis Police Officer, Sam Blue, 61, and co-conspirator, Anthony Davis, for federal criminal civil rights violations which included the violent crimes of robbery and kidnapping. On Jan. 24, 2020, Blue pled guilty to conspiracy...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Today Marine Conservation Institute will present a Blue Park Award to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, and the National Park Service at a 4:00 pm ceremony at the Santa Barbara Zoo. The award recognizes the collaborative efforts of state and federal managers in meeting the highest science-based standards for protection and management of the northern Channel Islands Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Dina Titus (D-NV) announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “GSA Outleases and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: A Toledo man was arrested Jan. 23, 2020 for sex trafficking two juveniles in Toledo, Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Jay Christopher Matt, 38, of Desmet, Idaho, pleaded guilty to witness tampering, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Sentencing for Matt is set for April 9, 2020, before U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill at the federal courthouse in Coeur d’Alene.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: On Jan. 22, 2020, George Ferrer Sanchez, 46, of Miramar, Florida, was sentenced to 108 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Marcia G. Cooke in Miami, Florida for orchestrating a conspiracy to launder proceeds of alien smuggling operation that transported Cuban nationals to Mexico, into the United States. As part of the Court’s sentence, Ferrer Sanchez was ordered to pay a $5.4 million forfeiture money judgment and to forfeit two real properties to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Washington, D.C. man was sentenced today to over nine years in prison for supplying over 770 grams of heroin to a distributer between March 2017 and December 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell woman pleaded guilty yesterday in connection with embezzling approximately $182,000 from a veterinary hospital that employed her.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Fort Mitchell, Kentucky man, Joseph Shockey, 53, pleaded guilty to bank fraud in federal court Friday, before U.S. District Court Danny C. Reeves.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: In Waco this afternoon, a federal jury convicted 27-year-old Francisco Resendez Martinez of Gonzales, CA, for attempting to deliver approximately 21 pounds of methamphetamine from California to Waco, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Field Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday afternoon, a federal jury found DWAYNE EDWARD RASMUSSEN, 55, of Oklahoma City, guilty of committing three bank robberies in Oklahoma City and Chickasha, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
