News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announced today that Yorgan Arnaldo Ramos Teran (Ramos Teran), 46, of Weston, Florida, is charged with violating...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Defendant who calls himself the ‘Italian Stallion’ faces third drug distribution conviction in 7 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging DARNELL DESHAWN STENNIS, 28, with one count of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, and two counts of transporting individuals to engage in prostitution. STENNIS is scheduled to be arraigned on these charges on February 6, 2020, before Magistrate Judge Becky R. Thorson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By State Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today released the following statements regarding the U.S.-Philippine alliance:
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Anthony Diaz, age 52, formerly of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was convicted on Jan. 30, 2020 following a jury trial, of wire fraud and mail fraud offenses. The 12-day trial was held before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Crystal King, 32, of the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian Reservation, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marian W. Payson, to distribution of contraband cigarettes. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former Ameriprise financial advisor who ran a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 20 of her clients - including some of her relatives - out of more than $8.1 million was sentenced today to 136 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Shawn Andrew Hunt, of Weston, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 24 months incarceration for methamphetamine distribution, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Seattle - A 21-year-old Palmdale, California, man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to federal crimes related to his computer hacking scheme and his possession of child pornography found on his digital devices, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. RYAN S. HERNANDEZ, aka Ryan West...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Portland, Ore. - Maps, ownership, and orientation are increasingly important in today’s complex world. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Oregon and Washington is excited to announce a new publicly available data library that allows access to geospatial data sets for such diverse land management programs as: wildland fire, hydrography, minerals, range, vegetation, wildlife, and much more!
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Late yesterday, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. sentenced Garlin Raymond Farris, 57, of Mathews, N.C. to 288 months in prison and five years of supervised release for trafficking large amounts of methamphetamine, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Frank Brothers, 30, of St. Louis, MO, was sentenced to 114 months in prison for his role in robbing the Steak and Shake in Maplewood and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Brothers appeared in federal court today before United States District Judge Rodney W. Sippel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Irvington, New Jersey, men, one of whom is currently attending the Irvington Fire Academy in order to become a firefighter, have been charged for operating a “mill" for the manufacture of illegal narcotic pills in an Irvington residence, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that David Gfeller, 35, of Palmyra, NY, pleaded guilty to producing child pornography, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30 years, a lifetime period of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: LAKEVIEW, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management is announcing that the Southeast Oregon Resource Advisory Council will hold two meetings in February and April 2020. The public is welcome to attend these meetings:.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Defendants misled investors in marijuana hydroponic pod scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is advising the public that we are revising our requirements for the importation of fresh Unshu oranges from Japan. With this action, Unshu oranges from the island of Kyushu may be imported into any port in the continental ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - Nine defendants charged with various federal drug offenses linked to a large methamphetamine and cocaine distribution ring based in Calcasieu and Beauregard parishes have been sentenced to federal prison for their crimes, announced David C. Joseph, the U.S. Attorney for the Western...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Airbus Agrees to Pay over $3.9 Billion in Global Penalties to Resolve Foreign Bribery and ITAR Case.
