News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Casey Lee Gilmer, 34, of Harrison County, Mississippi was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to 70 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of multiple firearms, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: TUPELO, MS - On Nov. 18, 2020, early in the morning, law enforcement Park Ranger Tim McElwain was conducting traffic enforcement patrol when he stopped four semi-trucks on the Parkway near milepost 250 and cited all four drivers. Later in the afternoon, Ranger McElwain stopped two additional semi-trucks, and again both drivers were cited.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Connecticut man was sentenced in federal court today in Portland for being a felon in possession of firearms, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced several important accomplishments that support the agency’s mission of preserving wild horses and burros on public range lands in an ecologically sustainable way. During Fiscal Year 2020 - which ended Sept. 30, 2020 - the BLM humanely removed 10,139 wild...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Seven MS-13 Gang Members Indicted in Violent Crime and Drug Distribution Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today Deonte Cooper 25, of Ashtabula, Ohio, who was convicted of conspiring to traffic firearms from Ohio to Buffalo following a three week jury trial, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 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, Attorney for the United States Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut; David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and New Haven Police Chief Otoniel Reyes today announced that five men were arrested yesterday on federal narcotics charges related to the distribution of heroin and crack cocaine in New Haven.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser, announced that JOSEPH CAMPO (CAMPO), age 78, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged on Nov. 17, 2020 with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and money laundering.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The National Park Service (NPS) has selected Craig Kenkel to serve as the superintendent of Point Reyes National Seashore starting in January 2021. Kenkel currently serves as the superintendent of Cuyahoga Valley National Park and First Ladies and James A. Garfield national historic sites in Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for discharging a firearm during an armed robbery in Petersburg.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Award will be presented annually to an Assistant U.S. Attorney; AUSA Brendan Conway receives inaugural award.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that James Moss, 61, Ladysmith, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 18 months in federal prison for conspiring to store and transport hazardous waste without...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - David Annor, age 27, and Lesley Annor, age 22, both of Gaithersburg, Maryland, were arrested on Nov. 16, 2020, on the federal charge of money laundering, in connection with an alleged romance scheme in which the participants in the scheme induce their victims, often people who...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) announced Thursday the recipients of its 2020 Partnership Awards during the inaugural private sector recognition ceremony at its northern Virginia headquarters. Awards were presented to 32 organizations, including...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of BRYCE MICHAEL WILLIAMS, 26, to one count of conspiracy to commit arson at the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct. WILLIAMS, who was initially charged via criminal complaint on June 16, 2020, and indicted on Aug. 25, 2020, entered his guilty plea today before Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Joseph S. Anile, II (56, Sarasota) to 10 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud, money laundering, and filing a false income tax return. As part of the sentence, the court also entered a money judgment...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On November 9, 2020, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging 20 violent gang members with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, and firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announces the sentencing, on Nov. 18, 2020, of MYLES NICHOLAS, age 33, of Jamaica, New York, by U.S. District Judge Wendy Vitter. Judge Vitter sentenced NICHOLAS to 25 months in prison pursuant to his prior guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to commit...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to Census Bureau Director Dr. Steven Dillingham seeking the urgent production of documents relating to multiple press reports ) that career officials at the Census Bureau have determined that they are unable to produce an accurate 2020 Census count prior to Jan. 26, 2021, and possibly well into February 2021.
