News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: FBI Offers Reward of Up to $10,000 for Information in Warm Springs Homicide.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Albany, Ga. - A convicted felon with a violent criminal past was sentenced to 84 months in prison after a federal jury found him guilty of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Used “Dark Web" to Import and Distribute 30 Kilograms of Ecstasy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that on Oct. 1, 2020, JOSE HUMBERTO DELSIB-MARTINEZ (hereinafter “DELSIB"), age 40, a native of Honduras, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in December 2019 to a three-count superseding bill ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - John Howard “Junior" Boothe, Jr., the owner of C & A Trucking, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to 36 months in federal prison after having previously pled guilty to conspiring to commit money laundering. Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar made the announcement today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser, United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin, Middle District of Louisiana, and Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook, Western District of Louisiana, jointly announce that the State of Louisiana received a total of $26,541,823 in six United States Department of Justice grants to respond to critical issues in local law enforcement and victims’ rights and services.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), with the General Services Administration (GSA), awarded a contract to Endyna, Inc. of McLean, Va., on Sept. 25, to provide the Vulnerability Disclosure Platform and associated services to help protect Federal civilian Executive Branch networks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Three individuals were charged today in connection with a multi-million dollar Medicare fraud scheme, bringing the total number of defendants to six.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that David D. Larvie, Jr., age 38, of Mission, South Dakota, was found guilty of Felon in Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA - A former Billings coal mining official who admitted defrauding companies of more than $20 million and lying to investigators about being kidnapped was sentenced today to five years in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Noah Fischman, 20, of Hailey, Idaho, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 36 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also sentenced Fischman to 15 years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Fischman pleaded guilty to the charge on July 7, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: SEBRING, Fla. - On Sept. 30, 2010, a multi-agency federal, state, and local task force conducted an operation in which more than 70 people were arrested on drug trafficking and gun marcharges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Archie Kissling, 25, of Aston, PA, was sentenced to 35 years in prison, 10 years of supervised release, and $39,000 in restitution by United States District Court Judge Jan E. DuBois for multiple child exploitation offenses, stemming...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Seattle - Two leaders of one of the world’s most notorious videogame piracy groups, Team Xecuter, have been arrested and are in custody facing charges filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Marlborough man was arrested on charges of child exploitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: SENTENCING - JERARDO ALVAREZ. On Sept. 29, Jerardo Alvarez, 35, was sentenced was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for aiding and abetting foreign travel in aid of racketeering. Customs and Border Protection officers in Laredo identified a shipment of 200 kilograms of methamphetamine headed...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: A Lubbock man who allegedly plotted a mass shooting pleaded guilty today to making false statements to a federally-licensed firearms dealer, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Oct. 1, 2020, Mark Heath, age 41, and Amy Casey, age 42, both of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, were sentenced by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for methamphetamine offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Sentenced to Federal Prison Again for Third Escape Conviction, Three Years After First Federal Sentencing.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle and a broad group of stakeholders have voiced support for S. 3051, America's Conservation Enhancement (ACE) Act. The legislation passed Congress and will now be sent to the president's desk.
