News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A federal grand jury today indicted the leader of a Trenton drug-trafficking organization for his role overseeing and managing the distribution of large amounts of heroin in the Trenton area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against Timothy Mackey, 39, of South Lake Tahoe, charging him with distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By State Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, provided the following remarks during a virtual event titled “Protecting Syrian Civilians: Implementing the Caesar Act" hosted by the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in cooperation with the Syrian Emergency Task Force. The event focused on the implementation of the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Kentucky Man Sentenced to Prison for Engaging in Illicit Sexual Conduct While Traveling and Residing in Cambodia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Law enforcement agencies in the Cedar Rapids area continue to make communities safer by partnering to reduce gun related crimes and violence. United States Attorney Peter E. Deegan, Jr. announced charges and arrests in eleven federal gun cases within the last 30 days.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today outlined several steps the committee should take this year to address systemic racism in the nation’s health care system and the economy as a whole.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Tristan August Fleming, 32, of Hendersonville, N.C., was sentenced to 13 years in prison on drug charges. In addition to the prison term imposed, Fleming was ordered to serve five years under court supervision upon completion of his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman caught with drugs in 2015 was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Kaley Elizabeth Bowen, 29, previously pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine base and marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Pontiac, Michigan man was sentenced to 46 months in prison and three years of supervised release for selling methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Milik Robinson, 23, previously admitted that on Aug. 19, 2019 he sold an ounce of methamphetamine to a confidential informant behind a residence located at 915 Washington Avenue in Huntington.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Thank you all for joining the first remote hearing of the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures. We find ourselves in challenging times, as evidenced by this new method of conducting Committee business in accordance with public health safety recommendations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Defendant Used Online Alias to Threaten Women and Minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell Coleman today announced federal indictments returned against multiple individuals in Louisville, Kentucky, as a result of civil unrest in Jefferson County during the period Monday, June 1, through Wednesday, June 3, 2020. The defendants charged are alleged to have engaged in robbing area pharmacies, a carjacking, and the illegal possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A U.S. District Judge handed down the maximum sentence in a case involving death threats against an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA), said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Kent Allen Crawford of Savannah, Georgia, previously pleaded guilty to one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Justin E. Herdman, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced today that a federal grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio has returned a two-count indictment charging Michael D. McCullough, age 44, of Akron with felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm by a person with a domestic violence conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jermaine Ellison, 33, of Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, was sentenced to serve 82 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A former interim governor of Mexico’s third largest state, Coahuila, pleaded guilty Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas for his role in a transnational money-laundering scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of transmitting threats in interstate commerce, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a new report today requested by Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials have not effectively coordinated with partner agencies to reduce human slavery and illegal labor practices in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: MARSHALL, Texas - A 41-year-old Hughes Springs, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking crimes in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A North Kingstown man made an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Providence on Wednesday, arrested by members of the Providence FBI Violent Crimes Against Children Task Force on a federal criminal complaint charging him with transfer of obscene material to a person under sixteen.
