News from October 2020

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Robert Patrick Chiefstick, 45, of Missoula, Montana, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 121 months in federal prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Chiefstick serve five years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Chiefstick pleaded guilty to the charge on June 17, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Uldarico Narvaez Ansazoy will be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Vera M. Scanlon at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on an indictment charging him with participating in an international cocaine distribution conspiracy headed by his brother Roman Narvaez...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, October 6, 2020, Jerome Darnell Brown, a 29-year-old man from Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. There is no parole in the federal system.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Illinois man was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for conspiring to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and 500 grams or more of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Today, the National Woman’s Party (NWP) announced the gift of its historic collection spanning women’s suffrage and the movement for women’s equality to the Library of Congress and National Park Service. This gift comes as the country celebrates 100 years of women's constitutional right to vote and ensures public access to a trove of records about the history of the women’s rights movement in the United States.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - A Greensboro woman was sentenced yesterday to 120 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: MONROE, La. - Robert A. Hebert, 60, of Monroe, Louisiana, has been sentenced for child exploitation, Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced. United States District Judge Terry A. Doughty sentenced Hebert to 360 months (30 years) in prison followed by supervised release for life for the crime. Hebert pleaded guilty to the charge June 15, 2020.

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York announced Friday that a former Venezuelan official and member the agency’s Most Wanted List has been designated as a target of the U.S. Department of State’s (DOS) Transnational Organized Crime...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Heath D. Shelton of Smithton, Illinois, has pleaded guilty to a single-count information charging.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - Three defendants guilty of trafficking illegal drugs in middle Georgia were sentenced to prison Wednesday for their crimes, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A New Jersey man today admitted robbing a Camden barbershop at gunpoint, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: SOUTH BEND -Henry Wood, 41, of North Judson, Indiana was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty upon his plea of guilty to receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: 35 defendants linked to 2016 wiretap investigation; two additional defendants sentenced to prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Defendant expressed desire to travel to Northern District of California for long-term relationship with minor children.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, October 6, 2020, Levi Calhoun, III, a 29-year-old man from Georgetown, Georgia, received a sentence of 18 months in prison for making threats against schools and conveying false information, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Calhoun was also ordered to serve two years of supervised release after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Adam Christopher Horty, 57, of Post Falls, Idaho, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 137 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. U.S. Circuit Judge Richard C. Tallman, sitting as a U.S. District Court judge, also ordered Horty to pay a $1,000 fine and...

By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Glen Canyon National Recreation Area will close the Antelope Point public launch ramp to motorized vessels Oct. 23 at 8 a.m. due to seasonal fluctuations in water level at Lake Powell. The ramp will remain open to the public for paddle sports and launching, retrieving, loading and unloading non-motorized watercraft.

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 43-year-old Mexican national was sentenced to federal prison Oct. 8, after he admitted to conspiring with others to import approximately 25 kilograms of 100% pure methamphetamine from Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: For Distribution Of Methamphetamine. FORT WAYNE-Aric Starnes, age 47, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Judge Holly Brady after his plea of guilty to distribution of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. Starnes was sentenced to 130 months in prison followed...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A Myrtle Point, Oregon Corporation pleaded guilty today to repeatedly discharging milk and other pollutants into the public water treatment facility which caused waste water with elevated E Coli bacteria to enter the South Fork of the Coquille River resulting in a public health advisory, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.