News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A registered sex offender was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 500 months in prison for crimes related to sex trafficking a 14-year-old girl.
By State Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
Release: More information about Aruba is available from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Bryan County woman admitted in federal court to attempting to persuade a victim to recant allegations that the woman’s husband had coerced a minor for sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Beckley man pled guilty today for his participation in a drug trafficking operation in Raleigh County, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Oyontikeyta Jones, 41, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute more than 500 grams of a substance containing methamphetamine and to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Jones was one of 17 defendants charged in federal court as a result of a long-term investigation known as Operation Shutdown Corner.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Tourism to Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site creates $5.8 million in Economic Benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: A federal judge today unsealed a criminal complaint charging 48-year-old San Antonio resident Shannon Kuchler with driving to Boston to pick up a minor he met on the “Dark Web" and transport her to San Antonio in order to engage in sexual relations, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS-A Bozeman man who landed a helicopter in the Bob Marshall Wilderness in May has paid the maximum $500 fine, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Brooksville, Ky. man, Gary Lee Long, 59, was sentenced on Tuesday, to 180 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, for receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal criminal complaint against DYLAN SHAKESPEARE ROBINSON, 22, charging him with aiding and abetting arson at the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct. ROBINSON, who was arrested on June, 14, 2020, in Breckenridge, Colorado, made his initial appearance earlier today, before Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter in U.S. District Court in Denver.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS-A Billings man who admitted trafficking methamphetamine he received through the mail was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a romance fraud scheme that bilked victims across the United States and overseas of nearly $900,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers and U.S. Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of SEYED SAJJAD SHAHIDIAN, 33, for his role in conducting financial transactions in violation of U.S. sanctions against Iran. SHAHIDIAN, who was indicted on Dec. 18...
By State Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Columbus, Ohio, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Columbus, Ohio, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man today admitted leading a conspiracy that defrauded New Jersey health benefits programs and other insurers out of more than $50 million, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. energy industry. Murkowski also emphasized that the industry can play a key role in the nation’s economic recovery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly and Kristi K. Johnson, Special Agent in Charge of the Omaha field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced the unsealing of indictments charging six Nigerian nationals for their involvement in Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes. The schemes included...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 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 an indictment charging Kevin L. Arnold, age 54, of Toledo, Ohio with two counts of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Enricki Gomez, 30, Rockford, Illinois, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 21 months in federal prison for possessing 500 grams or more of cocaine with intent to distribute. Gomez pleaded guilty to this charge on March 10, 2020.
