News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RICARDO REYES, also known as “Rick the Ruler," 40, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to offenses related to the possession and trafficking of narcotics and firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Teresa Johnson (53, Lecanto) to five years’ probation, with four months of home detention, for conspiring with a local doctor to commit health care fraud. As part of her sentence, the court also ordered Johnson to pay restitution to the defrauded federal health care programs and, entered a money judgment of more than $5,700, representing a portion of Johnson’s health care fraud proceeds.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: PORT ANGELES, WA: The final phase of work on the Spruce Railroad Trail at Lake Crescent is set to begin Monday, March 9 and be completed by fall 2020. During this phase, the entire four-mile trail along Lake Crescent will be closed to all use for public safety due to the heavy equipment and truck traffic involved in construction.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Flat Lick, Kentucky man, Jerry Cox, 70, was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday, to 18 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, for distributing hydrocodone and oxycodone pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Ricardo Jimenez-Rodriguez, age 34, of Hazelton, Pennsylvania, was indicted on March 3, 2020, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON -The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) remains vigilant in bringing awareness to the misuse of lasers when pointed towards aircraft. The FAA recorded more than 6,000 incidents in 2019, compared to 5,663 reports in 2018.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Senate today voted, 90-4, to officially begin debate on the American Energy Innovation Act (AEIA). Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) and the sponsor of the bill, spoke shortly after the vote today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - On Feb. 28, 2020, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Jason Eric Leinen, age 46, of Council Bluffs, to 97 months in prison for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Leinen was ordered to serve five years...
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 DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Ryan James Cook, 35, and Richard Gordon Bashaw, 49, both of Grangeville, Idaho, and Justina Maemarie Foster, 39, of Lewiston, Idaho, were arrested on Feb. 27, 2020, on federal gun and drug charges, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. The charges stem from a Feb. 19, 2020, eight-count indictment filed in U.S. District Court by a federal grand jury sitting in Coeur d’Alene.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Program on Thomas Edison and Deafness.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Aaron Fein concealed using and trying to make mass casualty weapons.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Defendant was on Federal Supervised Release when he was Arrested with Two Loaded Firearms in Car; Trafficked Kilogram Quantities of Cocaine; Likely Faces 10 to 15 Years in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney David P. Finn (619) 546-7342.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: The FBI is Seeking Information from a Bank Robbery in Key West.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - After a two-day trial, Oneil Wayne South, of Fairmont, West Virginia, was found guilty today by a federal jury of a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Cody Wayne Seabaugh, 31, of Hannibal, MO, was sentenced to 84 months in prison for possession with the intent to distribute over 50 grams of methamphetamine. Seabaugh appeared in federal court today before United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the filing of a criminal complaint charging Benjamin Tucker Patz (23, New York, New York), a/k/a “Parlay Patz," with transmitting threats in interstate or foreign commerce. If convicted, Patz faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WALLA WALLA, Wash. - Whitman Mission National Historic Site’s visitor center will be closed March 11 for employee development. The park site and trails will remain open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - A federal jury yesterday found Anthony T. Williams, 48, of Nashville, Tennessee guilty of 32 counts of wire and mail fraud. The verdict followed a four-week trial before United States District Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi. Sentencing is scheduled for June 24, 2020.
