News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland political consultant pleaded guilty today to conspiring to funnel more than $15,000 through straw donors into a campaign for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: ATHENS, Ga. - More than 300 law enforcement members from 23 agencies and task forces participated in “Operation Benchwarmers," a coordinated take-down capturing 16 of 17 defendants wanted on federal gun and drug charges, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Jan. 23, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal sentenced BRANDON F. ALLEN, 31, of The Bronx, New York on January 9, 2020 for bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Allen was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received eighteen months of imprisonment, to be followed by sixty months of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $200.00 special assessment with restitution to be determined within ninety days. The FBI investigated this case.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $627,237 grant to the city of Indianola, Iowa, to help build an access road that will serve a local workforce training facility. This EDA grant, to be matched with $627,238 in local investment, is expected to create nearly 3,500 jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: The only road to the top of Capulin Volcano closed August 9, 2019 due to a washout caused by heavy rain. The process to assure the road was safe for public travel has been long, but that process is now complete. The Volcano Road will re-open to vehicle traffic on January 23 at 8:30 a.m. The park will...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND- Brion Harris, 36, of Gary, Indiana, was sentenced before District Court Judge Philip P. Simon following his plea of guilty to possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Darnell M. Garnett, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Dallas Smith, 59, of Jackson, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michele Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Jerry Hunter Hartley, 28, of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced on charges of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Court documents showed that Hartley was caught twice by law enforcement authorities in Mobile during 2018 in possession of methamphetamine. Hartley pled guilty to the federal charge in July of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Defendant admitted to possessing seven firearms, multiple high-capacity magazines, and over 400 rounds of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return by a grand jury of a superseding indictment charging Kermon Williams, a/k/a “The General" (42, St. Petersburg), James Higgs, Jr., a/k/a “Hammer" (40, St. Petersburg), and Jhaphre Higgs, a/k/a “Pre," (35, St. Petersburg) in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Sentences. Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal sentenced BRANDON F. ALLEN, 31, of The Bronx, New York on January 9, 2020 for bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Allen was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received eighteen months of imprisonment, to be followed by sixty months...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Jeffersonville, Kentucky man, Ryan Keith Herndon, 29, admitted in federal court on Thursday, before U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, that he sold a firearm to a convicted felon, possessed a firearm as a convicted felon, and distributed a mixture of various controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming, Mark A. Klaassen, announced today that Rio Linda, California resident Arnold Devonne Butler, 53, has been convicted of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, including methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl; and conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas; announced today that Richard Elmo Warren, age 41, was sentenced today to 188 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release on one count of Possession of Methamphetamine with Intent to Distribute. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing today in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Adam Lee Facundo, age 26, was sentenced to 140 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release on one count of Distribution of More Than 50 grams of Actual Methamphetamine. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearings today in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to one year of probation and to pay a fine of $1,000 on her conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Russian National Pleads Guilty to Running Online Criminal Marketplace.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Missoula-A Wyoming man convicted of trafficking large quantities of methamphetamine in the community for several years was sentenced today to nine years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
