News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - For the second time in three days, agents from Homeland Security Investigations, members of the Rhode Island State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC), and Newport Police executed a court-authorized search of a Newport residence and arrested a Newport resident on federal child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Michael Carroll, 50, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William H. Conley to 10 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A San Fernando Valley man was arrested today on federal charges alleging he and his business partner fraudulently obtained more than $1.95 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans for their companies by submitting fake tax documents and false employee information, and then transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars of the funds into their personal bank accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Sextorted an 11-Year-Old Girl Whom He Convinced to Send Him Sexually Explicit Images of Herself, Sending Some of the Images to Her Sixth-Grade Classmates When She Refused to Send More Sexually Explicit Images.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Columbus man was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 30 years in prison for participating in a local gang’s racketeering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Kenneth Gene Morgan a/k/a Kenny Morgan, age 44, of Muskogee, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1341, punishable by not more than...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: WAPATO, WASHINGTON, Oct. 29, 2020-A scent lure designed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists to attract Asian giant hornets played a key role in the discovery of the first nest of these invasive insects in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Mt. Sterling, Kentucky husband and wife, Michael McNew, 49, and Karen Ann Nickell, 64, pleaded guilty on Thursday, before U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and crop insurance fraud, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Levi Kennith Carter, 31, of Charleston, was sentenced to five years in federal prison pursuant to his previous guilty pleas to two counts of distribution of heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine, and one count of distribution of methamphetamine. Following his release from prison, Carter will serve three years of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the Trump Administration’s plan to sell advanced military technology to the United Arab Emirates, which was presented to the Committee today in an informal notification...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, New Jersey, man was arrested and three co-defendants pleaded guilty today in connection with a conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank bribery, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND- Ralph Mendez, Jr., 24, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon to 510 months in prison following his guilty plea to conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity as a member of the Latin Dragons Nation street gang, including admitting responsibility for two homicides, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management Medford District sold nearly 25 million board feet of timber during an oral auction on Thursday, Oct 29.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
Release: DALLAS, TX - If you’re planning to fly on or before Halloween, here are a boo tips (oops, I meant few tips) from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to help address frequently asked questions that will help get you in the spirit without getting caught up in a web at the checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Burlington, Maine woman was sentenced in federal court in Bangor today for mailing a threatening communication to Sen. Susan Collins, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: The men who bought and sold a 19-year-old woman as a “sex slave" have been charged with human trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Cheyann Ciarra Hammonds, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: $10,000 Reward for Information Related to 2020 Homicide of Three-Year-Old Sharmar Hill, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Today, the Justice Department announced that it will permit state, local, territorial, and tribal task force officers to use body-worn cameras on federal task forces around the nation. The department’s policy will permit federally deputized officers to activate a body-worn camera while serving arrest...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Two former employees of eBay, Inc. pleaded guilty today to their roles in a cyberstalking campaign targeting the editor and publisher of a newsletter that eBay executives viewed as critical of the company.
