News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Gary Shoemaker, Jr., age 40, of Berwick, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on June 15, 2020, by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann to 72 months’ imprisonment for engaging in heroin trafficking.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - A significant component of EM’s complex chain of Hanford Site waste treatment facilities is marking a quarter century of safely treating contaminated wastewater while stretching the storage capacity of underground double-shell tanks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Tommy Gibson a/k/a “Two-Tone", age 56, of Rome City, Indiana, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady following his plea of guilty to distribution of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
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: SAN FRANCISCO - John Arthur Hudson, an attorney also known as Art Hudson and J.A. Hudson, was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed yesterday with wire fraud in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain loans involving a trust that he administered and the trust’s San Francisco property, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Jacob Clark Jackson, 29, of Mobile, was sentenced today in federal court to five days in custody as time served on the charge of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Jackson pled guilty to the charge in October of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - U.S. Attorney David J. Freed joined Attorney General William P. Barr and the entire Department of Justice in observing the 15th Annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on June 15, 2020. The Department echoes voices around the world condemning elder abuse, neglect and exploitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man who participated in a conspiracy which saw large quantities of heroin transported from Akron, Ohio and distributed in the Southern District of West Virginia pled guilty today in federal court in Huntington, West Virginia, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Weston Dallas McDaniels, 34, entered guilty pleas to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Mexican national who was in the United States illegally has pled guilty to possessing.40 caliber ammunition, according to United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Juan Martin Sotelo-Rodriguez, 26, pled guilty to unlawful possession of ammunition in federal court in Huntington.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Rolland Kwame Owens, of Steubenville, Ohio, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day incarceration for his role in a cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on June 15, 2020, United States District Judge William K. Sessions III sentenced Rodolfo Davila to 151 months in prison following his guilty pleas to (1) conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and 100 grams or more of heroin...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Craig Stewart, Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that ROBERT JOSEPH FARKAS, a/k/a “RJ," pled guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge James L. Cott to conspiring to commit securities and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to induce victims...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A former high-ranking member of the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico was arraigned today on federal drug charges following his extradition from Mexico. The defendant, FELIPE CABRERA SARABIA, was charged with one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and heroin, one count of conspiracy to import into the United States cocaine and heroin, and distribution of heroin, in an indictment that was returned by a federal grand jury in January 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense with Patches.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - A former businessman engaged in a complicated kick-back and wire fraud scheme involving federal contracts worth more than $36 million dollars has pleaded guilty for his crimes, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. David Kennedy, 67, of Nashville...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (MI) and Debbie Stabenow (MI), and Representatives John Moolenaar (MI-04), Dan Kildee (MI-05), Fred Upton (MI-06), Bill Huizenga (MI-02), Tim Walberg (MI-07), Debbie Dingell (MI-12), Brenda Lawrence (MI-14), Jack Bergman (MI-01), Paul Mitchell (MI-10), Andy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - On Thursday, June 11, 2020, a judge in federal district court sentenced a High Point resident, DAVID CURTIS SMITH, to a 319-month prison term, announced United States Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact and Failure to Appear was sentenced on June 15, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Craig Stewart, Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that ROBERT JOSEPH FARKAS, a/k/a “RJ," pled guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge James L. Cott to conspiring to commit securities and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to induce victims...
