News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached a settlement agreement with Bradford Child Care Services, Inc., which owns Tender Care Learning Centers (“Tender Care"), to resolve allegations that Tender Care was not...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Brian Bartz, 38, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with wire fraud, attempted wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Two alleged members of the Franklin Hill street gang in Boston were arrested on federal drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Del Rio, TX - The U.S. Marshals are searching for a Minnesota man and woman wanted as persons of interest by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the investigation of several St. Paul, Minnesota, fires during the recent unrest. ATF is offering two rewards of up to $10,000 each for information that leads to the apprehension and conviction of the two individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida has joined with the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice and other Florida Youth Justice Commission partners to launch the Florida Race Equity Challenge. The Florida Race Equity Challenge is a web-based, interactive experience...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Jeffersonville, Kentucky, man, Ryan Keith Herndon, 30, was sentenced on Friday to 78 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, for selling a firearm to a convicted felon, possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, and distributing a mixture of heroin, valeryl fentanyl, fentanyl, and methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Fletcher Terrell Minor, 43, of Monroe, was sentenced June 24, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty, to 10 years in prison, a three-year term of supervised release following his release from prison, and forfeiture of the firearm related to this charge. Minor pled guilty on March 9, 2020, to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Antwone Malik Coleman Booker, 19, of Moss Point, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 108 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for armed robbery of a business and using a firearm during a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Mike...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Shawn Frank was sentenced to 120 months in prison for fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine trafficking crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: After ignoring numerous calls from bicameral Democratic health committee leaders to create a broad special enrollment period and release data on health care enrollment trends, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finally released limited data yesterday. In response, House Energy and Commerce...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Dudley Hellenbrand, 68, and Cherie Hellenbrand, 46, both of Middleton, Wisconsin, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to each serve six months in federal prison for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today a federal criminal complaint charging Devonere Johnson, 28, with extortion in connection with threats made to Madison businesses this week. Johnson, who was arrested on state charges earlier this week, will make an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Madison on a date and time to be determined.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Old Colony Planning Council, Brockton, Massachusetts, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Today, leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar expressing concerns about the Trump Administration’s termination of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant awarded...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return by a federal grand jury of an indictment charging Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari (23, Tampa) with attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, namely the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (“ISIS"), and with violations of the National Firearms Act. If convicted on all counts, Al-Azhari faces a maximum penalty of 40 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - RANDY LEW WILLIAMS, 57, of Edmond, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to illegally shipping firearms to the Middle East and two other firearms violations, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Clint Dion Davis, 39, of Lexington, was sentenced today, to 87 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Justin Herdman, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced today that Timothy James Goodner, age 19, of Maple Heights, has been charged with maliciously damaging or destroying by means of fire or explosion any building or property. According to the criminal complaint, Goodner was involved in an act of arson concerning the Shaia’s Parking Lot attendant booth on 1242 West 3rd Street on Saturday, May 30th, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Alfredo Esparza, Jr., 49, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 60 months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Esparza serve four years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Esparza pleaded guilty to the charge on January 9, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney John R. Lausch, Jr., Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown, ATF Chicago Special Agent-in-Charge Kristen deTineo, DEA Chicago Special Agent-in-Charge Robert J. Bell, IRS-CI Special Agent-in-Charge Kathy A. Enstrom, and Chicago HIDTA Executive Director Nicholas Roti will hold a news conference today to announce charges in a significant gang investigation.
