News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A London man, Andrew Dick, 29, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison on Thursday, before U.S. District Court Judge Claria Horn Boom, for possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Great Falls man, whom law enforcement officers revived from a drug overdose and later arrested after a chase, was sentenced today to six years in prison and four years of supervised release for trafficking methamphetamine and heroin in the community, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Calling it “the ultimate breach of trust," U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel sentenced 36-year-old former U.S. Property and Fiscal Office Program Analyst Joseph Mora and 27-year-old former Texas Army National Guardsman Cristal Avila to three years and two years in federal prison, respectively, for selling...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Wednesday, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, and Subcommittee Member Rep. Katie Porter sent a letter to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Acting Administrator James Owens requesting a staff briefing on proposed improvements to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 213, which governs children’s car seat and booster seat safety.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: From snow-blanketed mountains to evergreen forests dripping with rain and ocean beaches pounded by winter storm waves, there are many ways to experience the fall and winter seasons at Olympic. Although most of areas of the park are open, some facilities and park roads are closed now for the season. Before...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Michael Mays a/k/a Michael Mayes, 35, of Jackson, pled guilty today before U.S. District Tom S. Lee to knowingly selling a firearm to a felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michele Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Nov. 19, 2020 - A federal grand jury in Nashville returned a 16-count superseding indictment yesterday, charging seven MS-13 Gang members with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana and serious firearm-related offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee and Brian C. Rabbitt, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Following an investigation by a team of US Park Rangers and Special Agents of the National Park Service (NPS) Investigative Services Branch, a man has been sentenced to serve 166 months in federal prison for assault and weapons violations in Hot Springs National Park. Cedric Allen Wiley, age 30, previously...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Timothy James Hallows, age 62, of Kaysville, who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in July, will spend 46 months in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Howard C. Nielson, Jr., imposed the sentence Wednesday morning in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that, following a four-week trial, PARKER H. “PETE" PETIT, the former chief executive officer of MiMedx Group, Inc. (“MiMedx"), a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, was convicted of securities...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Warren County, New Jersey, businessman who fraudulently obtained nearly $2 million in federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans will make his initial court appearance today, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito and Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: 12 Arrested in Takedown Operation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration and Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Duane Curtis Jackson, of Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia, has admitted to his role in a drug conspiracy that spanned several states, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Jonathan Brooks Floyd, 43, of Marion, N.C. was sentenced to 178 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger also sentenced Floyd to five years of supervised release upon completion of his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - An investment manager has been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly swindling a Chicago resident and other clients out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Seventeen Rollin’ 40s Crips Gang Members Charged.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: An MS-13 gang member was sentenced this week to more than 17 years in federal prison for his role in several brutal machete attacks at apartment complexes in Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox and Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Monday, Rogelio Salazar Gastelum, Jr., 54, of Sells, Arizona, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson to 52 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Gastelum previously pleaded guilty to Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, led his colleagues in calling on General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Emily Murphy to end her unprecedented delay, immediately ascertain Vice President Joe Biden...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Chesapeake businesswoman was sentenced today to 42 months in prison and ordered to pay over $1 million in restitution for engaging in a fraudulent rental agreement scheme and embezzling monies entrusted to her for postage.
