News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on March 4, 2020, Shawn Morgal, age 55, of Council Bluffs, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger for Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm. Morgal was sentenced to 27 months in prison to be followed by a term of supervised release of three years.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that two women and one man were sentenced to prison for their involvement in several armed robberies of taxi cab drivers and two gas stations in Milwaukee in August 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on March 4, 2020, Ryan Billado, 28, of St. Albans, Vermont, was sentenced in United States District Court in Rutland, Vermont, to serve 96 months in prison after his guilty plea to one count of receipt of child pornography. Chief U.S. District Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford also ordered Billado to serve a ten (10) year term of supervised release, and to pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Kirbyville, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine in southwest Missouri, in a case investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division, the Missouri State Highway Patrol, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of Ammunition by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Jason Keith Arnold, 46, of Chandler, Arizona, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute heroin and methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO -John Rallo, 54, formerly of St. Louis County, was sentenced to 17 months in prison for his involvement in a bribery scheme with Former St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger. Rallo appeared in federal court this morning before U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Clay Millhouse, a/k/a “Bear," 34, was arrested yesterday by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) on state and federal charges. Millhouse was one of three fugitives from last week’s “Operation Cold Snap," an ATF-led operation that recovered a total of 82 illegally possessed firearms, and resulted in the filing of federal firearm and drug trafficking charges against 16 defendants in 10 separate indictments.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former owner of a Studio City medical clinic was sentenced today to 37 months in federal prison for causing more than $11.5 million in bills to be submitted to health care benefit programs for unnecessary - and sometimes nonexistent - sleep studies, primarily for employees of United Parcel Service, Inc., and Costco Wholesale Corp.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Had 47 Prior Convictions for Various Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert S. Huie (619) 546-7053.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing Thursday to examine the actions the federal government is taking to contain the spread of the coronavirus, COVID-19, and prevent future pandemics.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA-A Kalispell woman who admitted bringing methamphetamine from Washington to distribute in Montana was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint against Trinity Fresh Distribution LLC. The company, operating from California, allegedly failed to make payment promptly to 10 produce sellers in the amount of $3,898,506 from March 2018 through January 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 27-count third superseding indictment charging George H. Moses, 50, of Rochester, NY, with 25 counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, federal program fraud, aggravated...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on March 4, 2020, Dalton Lee Dukes, age 30, of Council Bluffs, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and Carrying a Firearm in Relation to a Drug...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Vice Chair of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on Defense Health Programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser of the Eastern District of Louisiana joined Attorney General William P. Barr on March 3, 2020 to announce the Department of Justice’s National Nursing Home Initiative, which will coordinate and enhance civil and criminal efforts to pursue nursing homes that provide grossly substandard care to their residents.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - Two Peoria, Ill., men appeared in federal court in Peoria today following their arrests on charges that allege they have stolen 53 guns from Central Illinois licensed firearms dealers since Christmas Day 2019. Terrence M. Daniels, 19, and James D. Woolfolk, 20, both of Peoria, are charged in the burglary of six licensed firearms dealers in five counties.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers arrested an illegally present Guatemalan man March 3, who was released from local custody, despite an active ICE immigration detainer filed with local authorities.
