News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICHARD CASTRO, a/k/a “Chemsusa," a/k/a “Chems_usa," a/k/a “Chemical_usa," a/k/a “Jagger109," was sentenced to 210 months in prison today for participating in a conspiracy to distribute carfentanil, fentanyl...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) urged the Trump Administration to develop an inclusive, comprehensive strategy for distributing COVID-19 vaccinations to all Americans. In a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 60-year-old Bowie County man has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Defendant Richard Castro Led a Conspiracy that Sold Carfentanil and Fentanyl over the Dark Web to Customers across the United States for Several Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Also Admitted Possessing and Distributing Child Pornography, Including Distributing an Image He Produced of a Prepubescent Girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Eight pounds of meth seized from vehicle.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Howard Baxter Osgood, 78, of Gainesville, was sentenced on Wednesday, Sept. 30, to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of production of child pornography. As a part of his sentence, Osgood was fined $35,000 and was ordered to pay $25,000 in restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson today announced an award of $399,499 in Department of Justice grants to develop and improve systems to register and track sex offenders in Pueblo of Acoma. Awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs, these grants help states, U.S. territories...
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 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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Robert Bailey Paid $128,128 in Exchange for Help with FBI Contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on October 8, 2020, Travis Lawrence Ferguson, 32, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine by a Lincoln jury after a four-day trial. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 14, 2021. Ferguson faces a prison term of up to 20 years and a term of supervised release, following the prison term, of up to 3 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Six Arrested on Federal Charge of Conspiracy to Kidnap the Governor of Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman today announced an award of $208,803 to the RI Public Safety Grant Administration Office in Department of Justice grants to develop and improve systems to register and track sex offenders in Rhode Island. Awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $21.9 million grant to the Virgin Islands Port Authority, St. Thomas, United State Virgin Islands, to rebuild and expand cargo handling and storage infrastructure...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Remarks of United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Kevin Miranda-Yepez, 26, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for possessing child pornography. Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Miranda-Yepez to 48 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook and United States Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA") Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley announced today that 13 defendants have been arrested on federal charges and 27 defendants have been arrested on state charges following an investigation into drug trafficking activities in the Shreveport/Bossier City area that began in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A couple from Aurora has been charged in federal court with child labor trafficking for allegedly forcing an undocumented Guatemalan teenager to work and keeping her earnings.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Four Assistant U.S. Attorneys in the Southern District of Georgia have been appointed to serve as District Election Officers (DEOs) for the Nov. 3 General Election.
