News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national formerly residing in Lawrence pleaded guilty on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, in federal court in Boston to Social Security and benefit fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - DEA Special Agent Robert J. Bell and United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin Scott C. Blader announced that Martell Norris, 37, of Chicago, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to two, concurrent 15-year prison terms for possessing cocaine base (crack cocaine) with intent to distribute and possessing a loaded firearm as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Sean Andrew O’Neal, 58, of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, was sentenced today in Omaha, Nebraska, to 54 months in prison by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for wire fraud. There is no parole in the federal system. O’Neal was also ordered to pay $477,324.27 in restitution to his victims. After his prison sentence, O’Neal will serve a three-year of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: SAN JOSE- Monica Mason, the lead defendant in a seven-defendant bank fraud conspiracy, was sentenced to 106 months prison and ordered to pay over $3 million in restitution for a wide ranging refund fraud conspiracy, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and FBI Special Agent in Charge, John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Belgian national holding an Illinois law license has been indicted on money laundering charges involving funds obtained from three Massachusetts victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Christopher C. Cantwell, 39, of Keene, was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with making extortionate communications and sending interstate threats, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Mustafa al-Imam, a 47-year-old Libyan national, was sentenced today to 236 months in prison on federal terrorism charges and other offenses stemming from the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. Special Mission and CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. government personnel Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty died in the attack.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
Release: HARRISBURG, Pa. - It is important to avoid packing prohibited items in baggage when flying if travelers expect a smooth security checkpoint experience. The Transportation Security Administration has several tools that travelers who are flying out of Harrisburg International Airport can use to help ensure that passengers aren’t bringing prohibited items to the airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Houlton man was sentenced today in Bangor for possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2020 - Exporters of U.S. farm and food products will have an opportunity to explore new business opportunities in the Philippines during a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) agribusiness trade mission to Manila April 20-23. Individuals interested in participating must apply to USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) by February 6.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
Release: The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is making it easier for animal diagnostic laboratories to carry out vital livestock disease testing on behalf of the agency. USDA is updating regulations that outline how the agency approves laboratories ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced JOHN ELWOOD TYRONE MARTIN, 48, of Fayetteville, NC, to 198 months imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 46-year-old Whitehouse, Texas business owner has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kurtis Walter, age 26, of Troy, New York, pled guilty yesterday to distributing and receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Commends GBI, Partner Agencies For Shutting Down Narcotics Operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-On Jan. 22, 2020, Kristopher Ives, 33, of Portland, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for illegally accessing the computer network and data of his former employer, Gearbox Studios, after being terminated.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Marqui M. Newton (28, Tampa) to 3 years and 10 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The court also ordered Newton to forfeit the firearm and ammunition used in the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Carlos Cruz-Garcia, 37, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to distribute, and possessing with intent to distribute, cocaine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to serve 87 months in prison U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOEL C. RILEY, 48, of Wallingford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for bankruptcy fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: FREDERICK, Md. - Four national parks in western Maryland: Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park (NHP), Antietam and Monocacy National Battlefields and Catoctin Mountain Park will conduct deer management operations in Feb. and March 2020 to protect and restore native plants, promote healthy and diverse forests and preserve historic landscapes.
