News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Forfeiture Complaint Details Over $250 Million Stolen by North Korean Actors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Dr. Eric Math, M.D., 51, of Reno, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute hydrocodone and oxycodone, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Narrion Lamont Caston, 23, of Lansing, Michigan, was sentenced to serve 120 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for illegal possession of ammunition, and 14 months for violations of his Federal supervised release. He ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Keith Mussenden, age 36, of Schenectady, New York, was arrested last week and charged by criminal complaint for attempted sexual exploitation of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran man who was a member of the violent gang known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for unlawfully reentering the United States and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Thanks for having me. It’s an honor to be given your Senator of the Year award.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Darien Hatcher, 29, of Fresno, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to 20 years and six months in prison for two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: On Sunday, March 1, 2020, a snowshoer spent an unplanned night above Paradise, near the Muir Snowfield in white-out conditions. As crews searched for the missing woman the following morning, she connected to a distant cell tower and placed a broken call long enough to relay her coordinates. After several additional hours, the team reached her location. She traveled the remainder of the descent to Paradise under her own mobility, assisted by searchers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - An inmate at the Federal Correctional Center in Loretto, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court in Johnstown to a charge of possession of a prohibited object in prison, and immediately following, was sentenced to eight months in prison and three years’ supervised release, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, March 2, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $12.7 million to California as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production system.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Inspector General (IG) to open an investigation into potentially unlawful efforts and procedural problems related to the preparation and review ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va.-A federal inmate was sentenced to four months in prison for escape, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Linda Avila, 55, previously admitted that on Jan. 29, 2019, she walked away from the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) at Alderson, a minimum security prison for female inmates.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: A Broken Arrow woman pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to charges related to the embezzlement of $654,579 while she was employed with the Tulsa County Public Facilities Authority (TCPFA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: MIAMI -Brandon Michael Fleury, 22, of Santa Ana, California, was sentenced to 66 months in federal prison today for cyberstalking and sending a kidnapping threat to families of victims of a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, announced U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida and Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DEJUAN WARD, also known as “Hot Boi," 23, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 97 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a violent street gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio today, 46-year-old San Antonio resident Zachary F. Walter pleaded guilty to stealing over $135,000 in spent brass from Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA), announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Eric Scott Risley, 40, of Brewton, Alabama was sentenced on Feb. 27, 2020, for being a felon in possession of firearms. He entered a guilty plea to the charge in November of 2019.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, March 2, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $1.2 million to Maryland as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production system.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Edward “Nick" Robinson, the former President of the United Auto Workers Midwest CAP and the former Director of the UAW Labor and Employment Training Corporation, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with other UAW officials to embezzle over $1 million of UAW dues money and to defraud the United States by evading the payment of taxes announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Gerald D. Harris, a former supervisor in DeKalb County’s Tax Commissioner’s Office, allegedly accepted bribe payments from customers to register unlawfully vehicles and then tried to blackmail a bribe payer by threatening to inform on her to the FBI.
