News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Jenna Lynn Martinez, 34, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced today to 84 months in prison by United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher for possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine (actual). There is no parole in the federal system. Upon her release from prison, Martinez will serve four years of supervised release. She will also forfeit $16,747.00 in U.S. currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tennessee - Jose Cruz Landeroz-Tovar, Mariono Gonzales, Luis Albert Cruz, Aldolfo Dominguez, Luis Fernando Pena-Fierro, and Maria Magana, all of Mexico, were arrested on March 10, 2020, in the Northern District of Georgia by agents of Homeland Security Investigations on charges involving the conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. -Today, Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, author of the 2010 Prevent Deceptive Census Look Alike Mailings Act, and Rep. Anna G. Eshoo introduced two key bills that prohibit deceptive census mailings and create criminal penalties for anyone who distributes false information to prevent others from completing their census forms.
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: John Shear, age 38 of Cleveland, pled guilty to two separate federal indictments charging him with possessing ammunition and/or firearms as a felon. Shear faces a maximum of 10 years in prison on each indictment, and is scheduled to be sentenced before Judge Donald C. Nugent on June 29, 2020, at 9:30am.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JERONIMO MURILLO-TORRES, age 46, a citizen of Honduras, was charged on March 10, 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 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Wilford Richard Tracy was sentenced to 63 months of imprisonment on March 11, 2020. Tracy pled guilty to the bank robbery charge in December 2019. United States District Court Judge Callie V. Granade imposed the sentence and ordered that when Tracy is released from imprisonment, he will serve three years of supervised release and refrain from frequenting any gaming establishment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that Sterling Medical Associates Inc. (Sterling) will pay $1.85 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that it failed to schedule veterans’ medical appointments timely at two outpatient clinics in Minnesota, resulting in the submission...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Today marks the one-year anniversary of what the U.S. Department of the Interior calls “the single most important public lands management law to be passed in over a decade." U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, sponsored and championed the broad, bipartisan package of more than 120 public lands, natural resources, and water bills. During negotiations, she ensured the historic legislation prioritized Alaskans’ interests.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Kayla Hampton, age 28, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced in South Bend before United States District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio to 120 months in prison for Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, business owner admitted today to tax evasion and failure to pay the IRS over $540,000 in employment taxes, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Dutch national was indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia for his operation of Dark Scandals, a site on both the darknet and clearnet that featured violent rape videos and depictions of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron today sentenced Jason Matthew Zeller (42, Orlando) to 30 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography and for failing to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Gettysburg, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
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: Concord, NH - Yesterday’s “Fugitive of the Week," Benjamin Bergeron, 30, was arrested this afternoon without incident by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force in Raymond, NH.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Yesterday evening a jury rejected a defense of insanity and convicted Benjamin Jakes-Johnson, age 42, of New York City and Syracuse, New York, of distributing, attempting to receive, and possessing child pornography, after a five-day jury trial. The verdict was announced by United...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Aliquippa, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to more than 15 years (190 months) in prison, five years’ supervised release, and to pay restitution to two victim banks, as a result of his bank robbery convictions, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
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 Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: The 2020 Census is here. The U.S. Census Bureau is conducting massive media outreach as a part of its integrated communications campaign to let the public know the invitation to take the 2020 Census online, over the phone, or on paper is arriving in their mailbox starting today.
