News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Robert Gibeault Jr., age 52, of Gansevoort, New York, was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for distributing and possessing child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Three Energy and Commerce Committee leaders wrote to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simons today urging him to take immediate action to prevent deceptive advertising and dangerous misinformation related to the coronavirus global pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: The FBI is Seeking Information from a Bank Robbery in Hollywood.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Spartanburg, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced today that Detric McGowan, aka “Fat," 47, of Piedmont, has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to participating in a drug conspiracy involving cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, and tramadol;...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 21-year-old resident of Weslaco and former employee of the East Hidalgo Detention Center has been taken into custody, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: WEST PALM BEACH - Today, U.S. District Court Judge Robyn Rosenberg sentenced Brian Sigouin, 33, on one count of receipt of child pornography, and three counts of possession of child pornography. Judge Rosenberg sentenced Sigouin to a prison term of 97 months, followed by 15 years of supervised release. Sigouin must also pay restitution to the victims in the amount of $36,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 29-year-old former Katy resident has been ordered to prison for conspiring to compel three adult women to engage in sex trafficking by means of force and violence in Houston and other locations across the country, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Phillip M. Brown, age 41, of Grand Island, Nebraska, was sentenced on March 12, 2020 to 77 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, following his guilty plea to the charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. There is no parole in the federal system. The Honorable Richard G. Kopf, Senior United States District Court Judge, presided over the case.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an eight-count superseding indictment charging Sherman Michael Puckett (32, Clearwater) with one count of conspiring to distribute controlled substances, three counts of possessing controlled substances with the intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: 35 defendants linked to 2016 case, 20+ kilos of methamphetamine dealt by group.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, National Security Subcommittee Chairman Stephen F. Lynch, Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Gerry Connolly, Economic and Consumer Policy Subcommittee Chairman Raja Krishnamoorthi, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: In honor of Women’s History Month, the U.S. Census Bureau today released a graphic showing median earnings of women in certain occupations from the 2018 American Community Survey. The occupation table shows the percentage of women in select occupations and the earnings of full-time, year-round female workers in 2018. It compares earnings to those of men in the same occupations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was convicted yesterday by a federal jury in relation to an armed robbery of a T-Mobile store in Brockton, where multiple gunshots were fired at Brockton Police Officers during a high-speed chase.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Attorney’s Office will monitor the federal and local primary elections in Chicago and surrounding suburbs on March 17, 2020, John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, announced today.
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: PITTSBURGH - A physician who operated private family practices in Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, and Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of unlawfully dispensing controlled substances and health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: EL CENTRO, Calif. - The region’s highest-ranking law enforcement officials joined together today to issue a dire public safety alert about the extreme danger of fentanyl-laced pills following the fatal overdose of a 15-year-old boy, the youngest person known to have died as a result of fentanyl in Imperial County.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Juan Manuel Rivera-Vázquez, a music teacher and former keyboard player of a children’s music group, was sentenced on March 11, 2020, by U.S District Judge Francisco A. Besosa to a term of 10 years in prison, to be served concurrently with a 15-year sentence imposed in State Court, announced United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico W. Stephen Muldrow.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: WEST PALM BEACH - Today, U.S. District Court Judge Robyn Rosenberg sentenced Brian Sigouin, 33, on one count of receipt of child pornography, and three counts of possession of child pornography. Judge Rosenberg sentenced Sigouin to a prison term of 97 months, followed by 15 years of supervised release. Sigouin must also pay restitution to the victims in the amount of $36,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS-Two Billings men accused of crimes stemming from an investigation into sex trafficking, drug distribution and firearms violations were arraigned this week on charges in a multi-count indictment, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
