News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A man who was in frequent communication with imprisoned members of the Columbus clique of MS-13 was sentenced in U.S. District Court today for reentering the United States illegally for the third time.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Reno resident was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release for making phone calls in which he threatened to shoot a bank manager, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Denzell Moore, 26, of Washington, D.C. pled guilty to a Hobbs Act robbery and a federal firearms charge stemming from an armed robbery of a CVS near American University in the Fall of 2017, as well as an armed first degree burglary of a Howard University student’s home that occurred in the Spring of 2012, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Shea, and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - This spring, the Bureau of Land Management’s Butte Field Office will conduct prescribed burns on just over 400 acres in the Iron Mask area west of Townsend.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Thomas E. Ozga, age 31, of East Nassau, New York, pled guilty on Monday to possessing 10 homemade, unregistered silencers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - An Independence, Kentucky man, Larry Coots, 54, was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday, to 207 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau is beginning its selection process to hire up to 500,000 census takers for the 2020 Census.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Missouri Man Sentenced to 19 Years for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Lorenzo Scott, age 47, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Lewisburg (USP Lewisburg), was indicted by a federal grand jury for murder, assault with intent to commit murder and assault with intent to commit serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - A federal jury in Pensacola, Florida, convicted Shane Patrick Sprague, 35, of Pensacola, Florida, of felony conspiracy to violate the dogfighting prohibitions of the federal Animal Welfare Act. Co-defendants James "Tommy" Peek, 67, and Haley Cook Murph, 24, both of Milton, Florida...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested a Laotian man Feb. 25, who was previously convicted in Utah of attempted homicide.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, joined Attorney General William P. Barr in announcing today 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 4, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - David Nathan Huntsberry, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: A local drug dealer convicted of killing a Dallas teenager was sentenced to life in federal prison Tuesday evening following an investigation by the FBI’s Dallas Violent Gangs Safe Streets Task Force, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By State Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed a $7.8 billion emergency supplemental appropriations bill to prevent the spread of coronavirus and assist with the response.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of Homeland Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Former Forsyth County Commissioner Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA), Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment, delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing to discuss strengthening apprenticeships.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Harrisburg, PA - A fugitive sex offender who fled to Canada to avoid facing sexual assault charges in Franklin County has been removed to the U.S. and is awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania.
