News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A California lawyer and former Rialto Police officer was sentenced this afternoon to 24 months in federal prison for possessing unregistered firearms, silencers and a hand grenade inside his pickup truck during a law enforcement stop.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - John D. Salisbury, age 49, of Hagaman, New York, was sentenced today to 360 months in prison for producing and transporting child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on March 5, 2020, Gregory Herbert Markham, age 52, of Carter Lake, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger after pleading guilty to Transportation with Intent to Engage in Sexual Activity, Distribution...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Cairo Gaspar Ferreira, 33, was sentenced today on his conviction of illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Peter Mami, age 41, and James Taylor, age 32, both of Orange County, New York, were ordered detained yesterday after being arrested last week and charged with possessing with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Federal Authorities Also Arrest Two Other Defendants Who Allegedly Paid Tens of Thousands of Dollars for Sham ‘Green Card’ Marriages.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced Marvin Clifton, M.D., age 71, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 18 months in federal prison following his conviction for making false statements relating to health care matters. The Court further sentenced Dr. Clifton to two years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment, and ordered him to pay a $50,000 fine and a $100 special assessment.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today announced the grand prize winner of the Escape Respirator Prize Challenge. Launched in December 2018, the challenge invited the innovation community to develop a compact, discreetly-carried escape respirator that can be used quickly for safe egress from smoke-filled, oxygen-deficient, and chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) environments.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LAWRENCE CHRISTIE, also known as “L," 28, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 100 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a gun trafficking ring and for distributing crack cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Dear President Trump: We urge you to consult with Governors and immediately consider any Disaster Declaration requests pursuant to the Stafford Act for states preparing for and responding to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. As the number of confirmed cases increases across the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
Release: FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION. DA-2020-08. March 12, 2020To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials Effective March 3, 2020, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) established a Mexican fruit fly (Anastrepha ludens or Mexfly) quarantine ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County man was arrested today for defrauding lenders and corporations of millions of dollars by impersonating two bank executives interested in funding syndicated loans for global companies, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Three firearm vendors who operated at DFW gun shows have pleaded guilty to unlicensed dealing, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox. None of the defendants were conducting background checks on their buyers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Miami - Today, in federal court in Miami, a 43-year-old Los Angeles man pled guilty to defrauding a South Florida art gallery by trying to sell forgeries of works by renowned contemporary artists Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat to the gallery’s owner for more than $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Miami - Today, in federal court in Miami, a 43-year-old Los Angeles man pled guilty to defrauding a South Florida art gallery by trying to sell forgeries of works by renowned contemporary artists Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat to the gallery’s owner for more than $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Larceny and Bank Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Clinton man previously convicted in a federal court of cocaine conspiracy was indicted today for again committing cocaine offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Gregory Clark, 54, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on one count of Interstate Extortion; one count of Interstate Activity in Aid of Racketeering; and one count of Interference with Commerce by Means of Extortion.
