News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Hot Springs, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Buddy Lee Harris, age 42, of Pearcy, Arkansas, was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Distribution...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging four Baltimore men on the federal charge of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, and a fifth man with possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, being a felon in possession of a firearm, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Cory Lamar Cohen, Jr. (22, Ocala) today pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Defendant Angelina Maestas is 1 of 13 defendants charged in large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy in Montrose.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, a criminal investigative unit within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been indicted on federal tax, structuring, and concealment offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that three City of Philadelphia employees who worked in the Revenue Department were charged with soliciting and accepting bribes in connection with their employment. All three were charged with one count of federal program bribery.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: National Park Service managers today issued a reminder that winter weather conditions and seasonal road maintenance activities may cause temporary closures along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Given regularly changing conditions throughout the winter months, visitors should plan ahead before heading out to the Parkway and be aware of alternate routes should they encounter a closed section of the road.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Earl Frederic Owens (32, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to distributing child sex abuse images over the internet. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years, and up to 20 years, in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervised release. Additionally, Owens will be required to register as a sex offender and to forfeit several computer devices seized from his residence. Owens has been in custody since his arrest on Nov. 19, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: PINEDALE, Wyo - The Jonah Interagency Office (JIO) and Pinedale Anticline Project Office (PAPO) Boards of Directors will meet via Zoom on Dec. 10, 2020. Both meetings are open to the public and are being held virtually. Visit.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Special agents with the FBI this morning arrested a Hollywood man on a federal charge alleging that he recklessly operated a drone that crashed into a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that Filmel Williams, Jr., age 20, of Brownstown, Michigan, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge James G. Carr to nine years imprisonment after Williams pleaded guilty to transportation of a stolen firearm, possession of a stolen firearm and ammunition, possession of counterfeit United States currency, and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Hot Springs, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Cedric Allen Wiley, age 30, of Mountain Pine, Arkansas, was sentenced to a total of 166 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - A federal jury has found Terry George Zimmerman (73, Lady Lake) guilty of possession of child pornography. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 23, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today for unlawful re-entry of a deported alien. After reentering the United States within months of being removed, the defendant was charged with a heroin-related offense and was in possession of a phone that had been used in a drug transaction with an individual who died of an apparent overdose.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man was indicted today by a federal grand jury with illegally possessing three firearms and ammunition.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision against Michael Austin Hand (Hand) of Ocilla, Ga., on November. 6, 2020, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Quincy George, 36, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced on Nov. 16, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville to 18 years in federal prison by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer. This sentence follows George’s conviction on July ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the November Federal Grand Jury B.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Davon Owens, age 36, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty on Nov. 17, 2020, to possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime. Owens was a member of the Gregory Butler Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO) which distributed heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and crack cocaine in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. -- A former federal correctional officer was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for sneaking contraband items into the Miami prison where he worked and distributing them to inmates in exchange for bribe money.
