News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Wayne King, age 66, of Harrison, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole followed by 10 years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, J&F Investimentos SA (J&F), a global conglomerate holding company based in Brazil and primarily involved in the meat and agriculture businesses, pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and agreed to pay a criminal fine...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Massachusetts man was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with child pornography offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Arkansas Businessman Pleads Guilty to Income Tax Evasion.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: WILLOW BEACH, Arizona - The Willow Beach Launch Ramp will be closed temporarily Oct. 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 37-year-old Texan has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession with intent to distribute a large quantity of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury convicted Ross Gordon Laverty of multiple felonies in connection with mailing two explosive devices with the intent to injure or kill his targets, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Inspector in Charge Rafael Nuñez. The verdict was delivered after a one-week trial before the Hon. William H. Orrick, United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, today announced the results of his office’s emphasis on prosecuting violent crimes involving firearms. The U.S. Department of Justice announced that nationwide, more than 14,200 defendants have been charged with firearms-related crimes during Fiscal Year 2020. In the Western District of Wisconsin, 56 defendants have been charged.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Justin Coffman, 29, has been federally charged with being a drug user in possession of firearms, and has been indicted in state court for the criminal offense of possession of a hoax device. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the unsealing of the federal criminal complaint, and 26th Judicial District Attorney General Jody Pickens announced the state indictment by the Madison County Grand Jury today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Margaret Everson, Counselor to the Secretary, exercising the delegated authority of the National Park Service Director, announced Justin Unger was selected as the Associate Director for Business Services. Unger started his new position yesterday, October 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. -- South Florida federal prosecutors have charged 21-year-old Mario F. Perez, of Spring, Texas, with cyberstalking by making repeated threats on social media to kill a young woman.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme in which he and others opened bank accounts to function as conduits for stolen funds, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Seattle - A two-time federal felon was sentenced to four years in prison today for illegally possessing firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. PARK QUAN, 67, was arrested July 29, 2019, after FBI agents investigating one of his roommates in connection with a data theft served a search warrant...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: FBI Warns of Potential Charity Fraud Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 37-year-old Texan has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession with intent to distribute a large quantity of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Brandis Nicole Fish, age 36, of Henryetta, Oklahoma was sentenced to 110 months’ imprisonment, and 4 years of supervised release for Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: ATHENS, Ga - Three defendants guilty of distributing methamphetamine in the northeast Georgia region, arrested during the on-going large-scale “Operation Wu Block" investigation, were sentenced to federal prison today, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.-Chad Hafford, 29, of Hudson, New Hampshire has been identified as a possible suicide victim within Grand Canyon National Park. Body recovery teams were able to reach the victim, who was located approximately 350 feet below the rim, earlier this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Michael Peoples, 27, of Milan, TN, has been sentenced to 49 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Santa Sanabria, a.k.a. Santa Cordero, age 74, of Gansevoort, New York, was arraigned on an indictment charging her with using two different names and Social Security numbers to collect Social Security benefits under both identities.
