News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Mexican Mafia associate who ordered murders and assaults in Orange County’s jail system on the prison gang’s behalf was sentenced today to 210 months in federal prison for his racketeering conspiracy conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Tacoma - A 53-year-old Port Orchard, Washington, woman was charged today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma with wire fraud for her scheme to embezzle from a company she started and then sold to a Texas firm, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. JULIE SUE DORAN is alleged to have transferred illegally...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two Detroit men were sentenced today for drug charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Rudolph Jackson, 42, was sentenced to 71 months in prison. Rudy Jackson, 22, was sentenced to 37 months in prison. Rudolph Jackson previously pled guilty to a five count indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Defendant connected to seizure of hundreds of kilos of cocaine bound for Caribbean.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Jonathan Cruz Carino (28, Ocala) today pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Carino faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter A. DeFazio (D-OR) was joined by Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - TARA LYNETTE HUMPHRIES, 38, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 352 months in prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, as well as possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement in response to Donald Trump’s admission that he OK’d the Chinese government’s abhorrent mass internment and human rights violations of its Uyghur population...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey and FBI Special-Agent-in-Charge Joseph E. Carrico announced the unsealing of a federal criminal complaint against Dominic Brown, 18, of Heiskell, charging him with inciting a riot and civil disorder. Brown was arrested earlier today, and made his initial appearance today in the U.S. District Court in Knoxville, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Money that was supposed to be used to grow the business was used for personal expenses and purchase of Aruba estate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man has pled guilty to a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jason Chinn, 43, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin. He faces between five and 40 years in prison when sentenced on Sept. 21, 2020.
By State Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today announced that Under Secretary of State for Management Brian Bulatao will testify before the full Committee on Thursday, July 2 at 9:00 am as part of the joint committee investigation into the firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Paul Keenan Named Special Agent in Charge of the Indianapolis Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Tres Rios Field Office is seeking public input on a proposal to reroute a road and improve a parking area serving the Painted Hand Pueblo archaeological site, located off Montezuma County Road 10 in Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. Although accessible by foot, the area is currently closed to vehicle traffic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. today sentenced Jose Rivera, Jr. (49, Kissimmee) to nine years in federal prison for distributing child sex abuse images over the internet. The court also ordered Rivera to forfeit a Samsung tablet, which he had used to distribute the images.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Xavier Jimenez-Robledo appeared today in court on charges that he dealt counterfeit pills containing fentanyl that led to the overdose death of one individual in Monterey County, and the hospitalization of another individual, a minor, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL A. STEVENS, 26, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to approximately one year of imprisonment, time already served, and three years of supervised release, for counterfeiting offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: GUNNISON, Colo. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Gunnison Field Office published a Notice of Realty Action in the Federal Register seeking bids on a proposal to construct, operate, and maintain a commercial communications facility in Hinsdale County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that three people convicted of Distribution of a Controlled Substance were recently sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: On June 22, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) kicked off its Service Academy Collaboration (SAC) Program as it virtually welcomed six cadets from the United States Coast Guard Academy to collaborate on its ongoing research and development...
