News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge Rodney W. Sippel sentenced Romando E. Welch, Sr. to 60 months in prison. Welch, a 45-year-old resident of Ferguson, Missouri, pleaded guilty to three counts of being in possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.
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: POCATELLO - Robert Bailey, 63, of Centreville, Virginia, pleaded guilty to paying a bribe to a public official, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Bailey pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information filed in connection with his plea agreement. Sentencing is set for Dec. 16, 2020, before U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill at the federal courthouse in Pocatello.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Loudoun County man today on charges of producing and distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - Eighteen individuals, fifteen of whom were previously convicted of felony drug and/or firearm charges, and thirteen of whom are currently serving terms of state or federal probation, have been charged in federal court in Providence with trafficking drugs and/or firearms, the result of a series of FBI Safe Streets Task Force Project Safe Neighborhoods investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - The Department of Justice has issued grant awards of $1,199,047 to develop and improve systems to register and track sex offenders in the Western District of Oklahoma, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing. Awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs, these grants help...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Loudoun County man today on charges of producing and distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Patrick Staton, 30, Town of Maple, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 72 months in federal prison for possessing three firearms and ammunition as a felon. This prison term will be followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Benton, Ill. - The former assistant director of the Massac County Emergency Management Agency is.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Update: FBI Offers Reward in Theft of Paintings.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GERARD SENIOR, 21, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing cocaine, crack and heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Central Coast Field Office will extend the annual vehicle closure for the Panoche and Tumey Hills recreation areas in San Benito County to Friday, Nov. 13, due to extreme wildland fire danger. The vehicle closure may be lifted sooner if conditions allow and fire danger subsides. Both recreation areas remain open for hiking, hunting and bicycling.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Patrick Staton, 30, Town of Maple, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 72 months in federal prison for possessing three firearms and ammunition as a felon. This prison term will be followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Glen Lanchester, 53, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court to sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Nineteen Charged in the Middle District.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Second Grand Jury Scheduled to Begin Oct. 19, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of production and attempted production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: A criminal complaint has been filed in federal court in Brooklyn charging Jeremy Trapp with wire fraud in connection with the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program. Trapp is in federal custody on other charges, and made his initial appearance on the new charge yesterday before United States Magistrate Judge Vera M. Scanlon. The defendant remains detained pending trial.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) penned a letter to Mayor of the District of Columbia (District) Muriel Bowser regarding the recent failure of the District’s emergency dispatch system.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Joshua Stein, 30, Cornell, Wisconsin was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 10 years in federal prison for possessing more than 50 grams of methamphetamine for distribution...
