News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: This week in federal court, two men were sentenced for attempting to sexually exploit minors and a third man was sentenced for failing to register as a sex offender, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - A federal jury has found Paul Edward Lee, Jr. (40, Jacksonville) guilty of knowingly soliciting a minor to produce and send pornographic videos and images depicting sexual abuse of the minor. In 2011, Lee was convicted of lascivious molestation and exhibition of a child under...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: List Broker Indicted for Facilitating Elder Fraud Schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that the former Chairman for a political party in Delaware County, Indiana, Phil Nichols, and a Sergeant for the Muncie Police Department, Jess Neal, have been indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on March 12, 2020, United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani sentenced Kerry Sprouse, age 23, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, to 24 months’ imprisonment for drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that yesterday a jury sitting in U.S. District Court in Denver found former Veterans Affairs (VA) employee Joseph Prince, age 60, of Aurora, Colorado guilty of felony health care fraud, conspiracy, payment of illegal kickbacks and gratuities, money...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Starting the week of March 15, 2020, the Bureau of Land Management will begin work to replace a cattle guard on the main access road at Aguirre Spring Recreation Area. While public access to the site may be restricted at times, the BLM plans to provide access throughout most of the project, which may take up to two weeks to complete. The campground and hiking trails will be open during the road work.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Dr. Floyd Smith, M.D., ("Dr. Smith"), agreed to pay $70,000 and voluntarily surrender his medical license and DEA registration number for a period of three years to settle civil penalty claims stemming from allegations that he violated the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 and its regulations, announced United States Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: SOUTH BEND - William Shaifer, age 34, of Michigan City, Indiana was sentenced in South Bend by United States District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty for possession of firearms by a felon, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - A federal grand jury in Indianapolis, Indiana, returned a 12-count indictment against two officers - Joseph Chase Winkle, 34, and Jeremy Gibson, 30 - and one sergeant, Joseph Krejsa, 50, of the Muncie Police Department for their roles in using excessive force against arrestees and attempting...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal sentenced LESLIE JANAE ROMERO, 38, of Colorado Springs, Colorado on March 11, 2020 for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Romero was arrested in Fort Collins, Colorado. She received seventy-six months of imprisonment, to be followed by sixty months of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $400.00 and a $100.00 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Darien Montrel Vaughn-White, 25, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was sentenced to serve 37 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for possessing a handgun after being convicted of a felony. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney also imposed a period of supervised release of 3 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: John Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSHUA BESAW, 36, of Thompson, Connecticut, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl last year.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A north suburban man pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal criminal charges for threatening to publish sexually explicit images of an underage girl unless she sent him additional explicit images and videos of herself.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Burnett possessed with intent to distribute over 100 grams of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, LAFAYETTE, MONROE, ALEXANDRIA, LAKE CHARLES, La. - This week, United States Attorney David C. Joseph hosted the Western District of Louisiana’s first Department of Justice sponsored Law Enforcement Forum on March 10, 2020, in Shreveport, and March 12, 2020, in Lafayette, focusing on terror...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Dear Vice President Pence: As the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) reaches pandemic levels, people in Washington state and across the country still face significant uncertainty about when and how to get tested if they are sick. It is unconscionable that months after this outbreak began, we are unable...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JUAN VALENTIN HERNANDEZ-CRUZ, age 26, a citizen of Honduras, was charged on March 11, 2020 in a one-count bill of information with misuse of a social security number in violation of 42 U.S.C. ' 408(a)(7)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Tampa, FL - John Sibley (33, St. Petersburg) has pleaded guilty to distribution of fentanyl resulting in death. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 20 years, and up to life, in federal prison.
