News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Homestead, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg woman was sentenced to five years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Stephanie Eldred, 45, previously admitted that she was part of a drug trafficking ring operating in and around Parkersburg between February and October 2018. At her plea hearing, Eldred stated that she distributed more than 200 grams of methamphetamine that had been supplied by co-defendant Terrence McGuirk.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: BISMARCK, N.D. - A central North Dakota man was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to cyberstalking and sexually exploiting a minor.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) published an outline of key objectives to continuously improve security and safeguard the nation’s transportation systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jack Washington, 43, Lake Delton, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 78 months in federal prison for possessing 28 grams or more of crack cocaine with intent to distribute. This prison term will be followed by four years of supervised release.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., June 23, 2020) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farmers to Families Food Box Program has distributed more than 20 million food boxes in support of American farmers and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Bryan Bencomo Mendoza, 22, of Santa Fe, New Mexico pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque on June 22 to an indictment charging him with residential burglary in Indian Country.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM’s Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) recently released the fiscal 2019 fee determination for Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP), the management-and-operations contractor for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. In total, NWP earned approximately $14.3 million, representing 83 percent of the total...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dakota J. Sarfaty, 22, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of theft of firearms from a Federal Firearms Licensee and possession of stolen firearms, was sentenced to serve 175 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. Sarfaty was also ordered to pay $41,500 in restitution to August Chinappi, the victim of the burglary and the former owner of Chinappi’s Firearms & Supplies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Nereus Sutko, 38, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for healthcare fraud. Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Sutko to 46 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal prison system. After...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that seven defendants, primarily residents of Pittsburg, Le Flore, and Sequoyah Counties, have been indicted for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - The Department of Justice‘s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) today announced nearly $42 million in funding to support state-level law enforcement agencies in combating the illegal manufacturing and distribution of methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Company to sell its business in Massachusetts and pay $53 million fine, the largest criminal fine ever imposed under the Pipeline Safety Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced Derrick Gallien, age 36, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 180 months in federal prison following his convictions for possession with the intent to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) workers completed an immense amount of work during a two-day planned power outage that occurred while the site operated in an essential mission-critical posture due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for methamphetamine trafficking and illegally possessing numerous firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank today announced that the Department of Justice‘s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) has awarded $42 million in funding to support state-level law enforcement agencies in combating the illegal manufacturing and distribution of methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil and prescription opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Worked Using a Fake Name and a Fictitious Social Security Number After Illegally Reentering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Case Alleges the Politician Operated a ‘Pay-to-Play’ Scheme in Which Real Estate Developers Funneled Cash and Other Benefits to Secure Favorable Treatment.
