News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The final defendant in a federal fraud case was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for conning more than a dozen elderly victims out of nearly $200,000 in a scam involving fake lottery tickets.
By State Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement on the decision for the United States to formally rescind Sudan’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN -Argel Hernandez-Escobar, 33, last residing in Memphis, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for one count of possessing a firearm as an illegal alien and one count of illegally re-entering the United States. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that an Akron, Ohio man who participated in a conspiracy which saw large quantities of methamphetamine transported from Akron and distributed across the Southern District of West Virginia pled guilty today to a federal drug charge. Jordan Dewayne Jeffrey, 24, entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Lassen County, California, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses caused by recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) is asking community members, parents, and educators of South Carolina students to participate in South Carolina’s 19th Annual Student Pledge Against Gun Violence. The year’s Pledge runs from October 26 through October 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Red Ribbon Week highlights the importance of living a drug-free life style and presents an opportunity for parents, educators, and communities to reinforce the drug-free messages they share with their children throughout the year. Red Ribbon Week has grown throughout the U.S. since Drug Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Daniel Rodriguez, 37, of North Tonawanda, NY, with possessing with intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Eugene Kowel Named Special Agent in Charge of the Omaha Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Colorado man will make his initial appearance today on charges that he smuggled approximately two kilograms of cocaine into the United States, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Troy Douglas Blaylock, Sr., 57, of Mescalero, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, was charged in federal court on Sept. 22 with aggravated sexual abuse of a child and sexual abuse of a minor. The Court ordered Blaylock detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Melvin Yovanni Maradiaga-Leinus a/k/a “Melvin Lainez," 39, a native and citizen of Honduras, was sentenced for illegally possessing a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced. United States District Judge Robert R. Summerhays sentenced Maradiaga-Leinus to...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Settles Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Lawsuit Securing $342,500 for Two Female Firefighters and Changes to the Houston Fire Department's Training Practices.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Gilbert Gallegos, 44, of Lordsburg, New Mexico, was arraigned in federal court on Sept. 24 on charges of production and possession of child pornography. Gallegos will remain detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced this week that Corey Roshel Powell, age 42, of Delhi, Louisiana, pled guilty before U.S. Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick to wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud the USDA’s Summer Food Service Program. Janie Johnson Smith, age 40, of Monroe, Louisiana...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Luis Rivera, age 34, of Albany, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jeremiah Elijah Jim, 40, of Teec Nos Pos, Arizona, was arraigned in federal court on Oct. 6 on an indictment charging him with aggravated sexual abuse of a minor and abusive sexual contact of a minor in Indian Country. His co-defendant, Bryan Bull, 39, of Shiprock, New Mexico, appeared in federal court on Sept. 21 for arraignment on the same charges. Both men are enrolled members of the Navajo Nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Oct. 26, 2020 - The founder of a Nashville, Tennessee-based holistic wellness business was charged Friday with operating a Ponzi scheme, in which he duped dozens of patients, financial institutions and investors out of nearly $700,000, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Teresa Miller, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was found guilty of a firearms violation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-NY) today made the following statement.
