News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Joshua Maywalt (40, Tampa) with 4 counts of health care fraud and 4 counts of aggravated identity theft. Maywalt faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for each of the health care...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A U.S. Postal employee was arrested today and charged in connection with stealing mail on at least 21 occasions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Mexican national, who had been previously lawfully deported seven times, was sentenced to more than four years in prison for illegally returning to the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich of the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Michelle Cage, 45, of Maryland, pled guilty on Nov. 19, 2020 to bribery for paying more than $6,500 in bribes to a Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) employee, Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - The United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Jabari Hodge, 30, of St. Thomas, was sentenced to 71 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm followed by a three year term of supervised release.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
Release: Effective November 5, 2020, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) established a Mexican fruit fly (Mexfly) quarantine in Lasara, Willacy County, Texas. APHIS is applying safeguarding measures and restrictions on the interstate movement or ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal jury has convicted Richard Dzionara-Norsen, 29, of Brighton, NY, of possession, receipt, and distribution of child pornography. The charges carry a minimum penalty of five years in prison, and maximum of 20 years in prison, a lifetime period of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Possessed More Than 1 Million Images and More Than 6,800 Videos Depicting Children Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report reviewing the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) management of their intellectual property. The report recommends HHS fix a deficiency in their commercial licensing process and publicly report...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II today sentenced Tommy Lee Holt (27, Ocala) to four years and seven months in federal prison for possession of an unregistered destructive device. Following his prison term, Holt is ordered to serve three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig accepted guilty pleas today from 38-year-old Elijah Moore of Warrenton, Missouri. Moore pleaded guilty to two counts of attempting to kill a federal officer, one count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and one count of carjacking.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 28-year-old Mexican citizen who illegally resided in Houston is set to appear in federal court on charges of conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute meth, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Nov. 20, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Lucian Bernard Jackson, age 53, of Greenbelt, Maryland, yesterday to 10 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy, possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, and being a felon...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) sent letters to the Pebble Limited Partnership (Pebble) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Harlon David Prater (Jacksonville, 28) to 80 years in federal prison for producing photographs of his ongoing sexual assaults of an infant and 18-month-old child, and for distributing child sexual abuse material. The court also ordered Prater to a life term of supervised release and to pay restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Sentences. Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced ANTONIO CORTES SAEZ, 24, of Gillette, Wyoming on Nov. 13, 2020 for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Saez was arrested in Gillette, Wyoming. He received...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a five count indictment against David Montemage, 37, of Grand Island, NY, charging him with conspiring to distribute, attempting to possess with intent to distribute, and possessing with intent to...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LARRY HALL, also known as “Chuito" and “Bobo," 49, of Naugatuck, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II today sentenced Christopher Maurice McCallum Jr. (28, Ocala) to 8 years in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. In addition, McCallum received a consecutive 2-year prison term on a related violation of supervision in another firearm case.
