News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: A 37-year-old man who volunteered to torture a sex trafficking victim for money has been charged with human trafficking crimes, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: An Effingham County man has been sentenced to more than a decade in federal prison for a scheme to buy and sell illegal drugs online and through the U.S. Mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Nov. 12, 2020, Martin E. McKeever (age: 51) of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison by Senior United States District Judge William C. Griesbach for distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced James Matthew Johnson (32, Summerfield) to 40 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Johnson had pleaded guilty on Aug. 10, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Nigerian national pleaded guilty yesterday in connection with defrauding victims using various online scams during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Pomona man who allegedly went to an Army Reserve Center in Upland, drove away with a military Humvee worth more than $200,000, and briefly led police on a chase through residential streets in Pomona was charged today in federal court with theft of United States government property.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Joint Terrorism Task Force Found Schematics, Components, and Fuels to Construct Improvised Explosive Devices at the Defendant’s Residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that on Nov. 12, 2020, JAVIER CONTRERAS-CASTILLO, age 28, of Houston, was sentenced by United States District Judge Barry W. Ashe after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute a kilogram or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A Virginia man, tied to the purchase of approximately three kilos of methamphetamine in Georgia, has been sentenced to serve more than 12 years in a federal prison, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on November 9, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass- Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent Brian Carlstrom has announced that several contract and park staff construction projects are planned or underway at the national seashore over the coming winter and spring. Major projects include the construction of new bathhouse facilities at...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management Billings Field Office is accepting public comment on the modified Pryor Mountain Travel Management Plan Environmental Assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Isidro De Los Santos, age 33, a citizen of the Dominican Republic residing in Syracuse, was sentenced today to serve nine years (108 months) in federal prison for his convictions for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of heroin, fentanyl, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The owner of a group of related durable medical equipment (DME) companies today admitted his role in a conspiracy to pay kickbacks in exchange for durable medical equipment, Attorney for the United States Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. - As part of the Trump Administration’s commitment to responsibly develop our natural resources, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will offer 83 parcels, totaling approximately 111,340 acres in Jackson, Las Animas, Moffat, Rio Blanco, and Weld counties at its March 2021 oil and gas lease sale.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming State Office plans to offer 383 parcels totaling about 483,017 acres in an oil and gas lease sale the week of March 15, 2021. This includes 285 parcels nominated for the March sale as well as 141 parcels totaling about 244,086 acres that the BLM deferred from lease sales earlier this year because they overlap Greater Sage-Grouse priority habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DONALD LAGUARDIA was convicted yesterday following a five-day jury trial before the Honorable Lewis A. Kaplan. As the jury found, between 2013 and 2016, LAGUARDIA, the chief executive officer and co-founder...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Grundy County man has been indicted in federal court in Chicago on charges he illegally possessed explosive devices and handguns.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to drug distribution charges.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: In order to incorporate the tenets of Universal Design as recommended by the National Center on Accessibility, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial will be implementing some changes to the park’s cultural landscape that will replace the trail surface of the two parallel trails from the visitor center parking...
