News from May 2020
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: Defendants Prosecuted as Part of The Guardians Project, a Federal Law Enforcement Initiative to Combat Corruption, Fraud, and Abuse in South Dakota.
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: Fritch, Texas - Lake Meredith National Recreation Area staff have located and recovered a human body while searching for the hunter that went missing on Dec. 15, 2019. The body was located using high resolution sidescan sonar on May 5, 2020 and recovered from the lake on May 6, 2020. The body is...
By State Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS-A Billings man who admitted illegally having guns after having been convicted of a felony was sentenced today to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Alejandro Rodriguez, age 27, of Rogers, Arkansas was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Distribution of Methamphetamine. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Minnesota murder suspect was arrested in West Memphis, Arkansas by the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force.
By DOL Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement in response to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ final regulation on Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Georgia man has been charged with trafficking multiple firearms from Georgia to Jersey City, New Jersey, which were subsequently used in acts of violence, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: United States Reaches Settlement to Recover More Than $49 Million Involving Malaysian Sovereign Wealth Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: A Fort Worth child sexual predator was sentenced Monday to 80 years in federal prison announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - During California State Peace Officers’ Memorial Week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office honors and remembers the California peace officers who have died in the line of duty in the preceding year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Amy Jo-Manshum John, 25, of Grand Rapids, Michigan pleaded guilty before a U.S. Magistrate Judge pursuant to a plea agreement to one count of interfering with flight crew members and attendants. John faces a statutory maximum term of imprisonment of twenty years’ confinement, $250,000 fine, and 3 years’ supervised release at the time of sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeffrey Wehs, 24, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a lifetime period of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Neal Lee Morris, age 43, of Ada, Oklahoma was sentenced to 57 months’ imprisonment, and 3 years of supervised release for Felon In Possession Of Firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2). The charges arose from an investigation by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Florida man today admitted his role in using his company to defraud the Medicare Program in connection with fraudulent orders for genetic tests, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Southwestern Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to 30 months' imprisonment and three years of supervised release on his conviction of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on May 1, 2020, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By Homeland Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A Washington State man was charged in federal court Wednesday for attempting to smuggle numerous firearms, ammunition, gun magazines and other gun parts into the Republic of Mexico.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the House of Representatives filed a brief with the Supreme Court regarding California v. Texas...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Timothy L. Adjutant, 28, of North Stratford, pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of distribution of buprenorphine near a school, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
