News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury today indicted a Union County, New Jersey, man for allegedly persuading, inducing and enticing numerous female victims, usually commercial sex workers, to travel in interstate or foreign commerce to engage in prostitution and other sexual acts, often by use of force, violence and threats, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On October 8, Corey Chrispin Henry, 25, of Cibecue, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge Dominic W. Lanza to 24 months in prison, followed by 36 months of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that additional charges have been brought in a superseding indictment against members and associates of a white supremacist gang known as the 1488s. The 1488s have been charged as a criminal organization that was involved in narcotics distribution, arson, obstruction of justice, and acts of violence including murder, assault, and kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EVAN SHEFFIELD, also known as “Smooth," 34, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 97 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Aurora Police Departments Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Anthony Hernandez, 43, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced yesterday to six months in federal prison after having pled guilty to making false statements relating to health care matters and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Court Judge Rodney W. Sippel sentenced today Angela K. Williams, M.D., to three years’ probation, $745 in restitution to Medicare and Medicaid and 100 hours community service today. The 34-year-old Brentwood, Missouri, resident pleaded guilty in January to fraudulently obtaining oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DURE DANCY, 25, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 27 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a loaded gun in Hartford.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A leader of the Worcester Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") was sentenced today on drug distribution charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: The former president of Transport Logistics International Inc. (TLI), a Maryland-based transportation company that provides services for the transportation of nuclear materials to customers in the United States and abroad, was sentenced today to 48 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in a scheme to bribe a Russian official in exchange for obtaining contracts for the company.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury in El Paso indicted three individuals for their roles in a scheme to straw purchase firearms and smuggle them into Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey C. Boshek, II, Dallas Field...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Harrisburg, Pa - Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar and Pennsylvania Director of Homeland Security Marcus Brown recently met with Pennsylvania’s three United States Attorneys and FBI agents from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to review security and preparations for the Nov. 3 general election.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, published a column on FoxNews.com Wednesday about how the Democrats and the mainstream media have used the “Russian disinformation and interference" narrative to misdirect the American people ahead of the election.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A Lame Deer man who admitted shooting a woman in the head while drinking with friends at his residence on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 37 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Executive Paid Bribes to a Russian Official So His Company Could Win Highly Sensitive Nuclear Fuel Transportation Contracts.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management released the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Wyoming Pipeline Corridor Initiative (WPCI), a proposal from the State of Wyoming that seeks to designate almost 2,000 miles of pipeline corridors across private, state, and BLM-managed lands in Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Faizal Bhimani, age 43, and Nazim Hassam, age 64, both of Bartonsville, Pennsylvania, Om Sri Sai, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation, and the Pocono Plaza Inn hotel, formerly known as the Quality Inn, located in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania were convicted on Oct. 23, 2020, of sex trafficking and drug trafficking charges after a two-week jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
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By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Martinsburg, WV - On Oct. 22, 2020, the United States Marshals Service in Clarksburg, West Virginia was asked by the Fairmont Police Department to assist in locating a missing juvenile who ran away from foster care on Sept. 28, 2020. Investigators with the Fairmont Police Department, Marion County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Marshals Service quickly developed information that the missing child may be in Charles Town, West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Shuntaze Harvey, of Garfield Heights, Ohio, has admitted to a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
