News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Louisville Metro Police Department Officer involved with the Explorer Program has been charged with deprivation of rights under the color of law, announced U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman. The grand jury charged Schuhmann, while acting under color of law, with willfully depriving Jane...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Friday, Jacob Roach, 38, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 40 months in prison for using his position with a bank to defraud an 82-year old victim. Roach was also ordered to pay $1.25 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Theodore Loria, 53, of Irondequoit, NY, who was convicted of cyberstalking, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to serve 24 months in federal prison to be followed by six months home confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Home, Pennsylvania, and a federal detainee housed at the Indiana County Jail (ICJ) have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges related to a bribery conspiracy involving smuggled contraband cellphones, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies last week teamed together in the Shiprock, New Mexico, area to conduct a marijuana eradication operation that yielded tremendous results.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Caduceus USA Medical Pharmacy, LLC (“Caduceus") has agreed to surrender its DEA registration and pay $250,000 to resolve allegations that it failed to keep proper records of the controlled substances that it purchased, maintained and dispensed in violation of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement today on the impending Trump administration lease sale for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Hacel Alfredo Alvarez, 36, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. In addition, U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd ordered the forfeiture of Alvarez’s residence, which was used to facilitate his drug trafficking activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced Jonathan Dujan Gardin, 36, of Charlotte, to 220 months in prison and three years of supervised release, for committing a string of armed robberies of businesses in the Charlotte area, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County tax preparer who cheated the IRS out of nearly $5 million by fraudulently filing income tax returns on his clients’ behalf - and without their consent - to obtain false tax refunds was sentenced today to 34 months in federal prison.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated two Montana counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Roosevelt and Sheridan counties who suffered losses caused by recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Involuntary Manslaughter.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Glendale man was sentenced today to 84 months in federal prison for running a series of “bust out" scams that defrauded more than 20 banks out of nearly $5 million by, among other things, using fraudulently obtained credit cards to buy millions of dollars in liquor and cemetery plots that were later sold for a profit.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
Release: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.- Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers detected and prevented two handguns from making their way in the passenger cabin of airplanes at Gerald R. Ford International Airport (GRR) Sunday.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Today, United States Attorney D. Michael Dunavant is launching three Public Service Announcements (PSAs) to raise awareness and increase reporting about the Department of Justice priority areas of violent crime, elder fraud, and opioids. The campaign employs targeted messaging to educate...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - More than 26 individuals have been charged with various narcotics trafficking or firearms offenses as part of a federal investigation into illegal activities on the West Side of Chicago. As part of the investigation, law enforcement shut down a telephone drug hotline, according to a criminal complaint recently unsealed in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Allen Julian Fields Jr., age 33, of Burlington, to 121 months in prison for Possession with Intent to Manufacture or Distribute 50 Grams or More of Methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Following his prison term, Fields was ordered to serve four years of supervised release as well as pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that BRUCE D. COX, age 62, of Mandeville, was charged on Nov. 12, 2020 with theft of government funds in connection a false application for disaster assistance.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Kadeidra Ra'Shawon White has been arraigned on federal charges of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and possession of fifteen or more unauthorized access devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted Brian Anthony Gilbert, age 33, of District Heights, Maryland, on the federal charges of production, distribution, and possession of child pornography. The indictment was returned on Nov. 2, 2020 and Gilbert had his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt today. At today’s initial appearance, U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles B. Day ordered that Gilbert be detained pending trial.
