News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. of the Western District of North Carolina sentenced Xaver M. Boston, 31, of Charlotte, North Carolina, today to serve 40 years in prison and 30 years of supervised release. Judge Conrad also ordered Boston to pay $354,000 in restitution and...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Sept. 24, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entered into a stipulation agreement with Durant Stockyards, LLC (Durant Stockyards), of Durant, Okla., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. Under the terms of the stipulation agreement, Durant Stockyards waived its right to a hearing and paid a penalty of $3,750.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Kennewick, Wash., - Today, United States Attorney William Hyslop and DEA Special Agent in Charge Keith Weis announced a coordinated Opioid Fentanyl Outreach initiative by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, community leaders, prevention specialists and school superintendents. They were joined at the announcement by Kennewick Police Chief Ken Hohenberg and Dr. Traci Pierce, Superintendent of the Kennewick School District.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Mikel Lowe, aka L-O, 25, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of racketeering conspiracy, possessing with intent to distribute crack cocaine, and possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes, was sentenced to serve 108 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, joins Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division in announcing five individuals were charged in an indictment based upon their alleged participation in a scheme to file fraudulent...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. today announced $265,258 in Department of Justice funding to hire special prosecutors to try federal firearms cases originating in the Myrtle Beach area. The award supports violence reduction efforts as part of Operation Legend and other Department-led initiatives in cities across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Spokane - Today, William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced the indictment of Christopher Hamilton Clemens, 39, of Clarkston, Washington, Hamilton’s West LLC, a Clarkston, Washington business owned and operated by Clemens, and Calandra Charging Eagle...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: More than 30 pounds of meth, $11,380 cash found in vehicle, residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, has returned the following indictments. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Sentences. Chief United States District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced codefendants Ashley Rose Yellowbear, 28, Kristen Jade Antelope, 27, Rusty Tso Tabaho, 28, and Samuel Harold Friday, 38, all of the Wind River Reservation or Riverton, Wyoming, on Oct. 15, 2020 for kidnapping and aiding...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Cape May, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for distributing approximately 300 grams of crystal methamphetamine and thousands of pills containing heroin and/or fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Couple mistreated workers they hired from India to work in their home in Stockton.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Seattle Software Developer Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud for COVID-Relief Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that David Neil Dunn, a/k/a David Neil Dunn, Jr, age 20, of Muskogee, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Use, Carry, and Discharge of a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence, in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - United States Attorneys Matthew D. Krueger and Scott C. Blader announced awards of $6,472,018 in Department of Justice grants to fight drug abuse and addiction in Wisconsin. The grants were awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and are part of more than $341 million going to communities nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 28-year-old Corpus Christi man has admitted to devising a scheme to fraudulently misappropriate $278,433 in unemployment benefits meant for those suffering financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Benton, Ill. -Tamecia Buckley, 37, of Cahokia, Illinois, was sentenced today to 75 months in.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: “I write to reiterate my request for immediate access to the Postal Distribution Center in Merrifield, Virginia-as well as access for my Congressional colleagues to other postal facilities," Subcommittee Chairman Connolly wrote. “Oversight of Postal Service operations is more important now than ever, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: In Del Rio, a federal judge has sentenced 33 members and associates of the Austin, San Antonio and Uvalde Chapters of the Latin King’s Central Region of Texas from 45 to 288 months in federal prison for their roles in a racketeering scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer, Homeland Security Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 61-year-old purported “investment advisor" has been ordered to serve the maximum sentence for his conviction of wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
