News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Daniel Richter, 42, of Boulder, CO, who was convicted of interstate communication of threat to injure, was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ELKIE CRUMP, also known as “40," 38, pleaded guilty today to fentanyl and crack cocaine distribution offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Today, Attorney General William P. Barr and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea announced the results of Operation Crystal Shield, DEA’s six-month-long effort targeting the command and control elements of Mexican cartels that operate major methamphetamine “transportation hubs" in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: SAN JOSE- Marc Marier was sentenced to 29 months in prison and ordered to pay over $1.49 million in restitution for wire fraud and money laundering, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and FBI Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Lucy Koh, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Brian Lawrence, 33, of St. Louis County, was sentenced yesterday to 70 months imprisonment by United States District Judge Rodney W. Sippel after pleading guilty to his involvement in conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and to assaulting a federal law enforcement officer.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing on “Providing the Census Bureau with the Time to Produce a Complete and Accurate Census." Even though the Democrats didn’t invite any officials from the Census Bureau to testify, career officials recently told the Committee...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Dear President Bukele: As you know, we are longtime supporters of a strong U.S. - El Salvador relationship and of the need to continue to partner to ensure a better future for both of our countries. Today, we write to express our deep concern regarding your government’s increased hostility towards independent...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell, sentenced Anthony Blane Byrnes, 19, of Huntersville, N.C., to 71 months in prison on drug charges, for trafficking narcotics he purchased on the dark web using cryptocurrency, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term imposed, Byrnes was also ordered to serve four years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH A resident of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to five years and four months (64 months) in prison to be followed by two years of supervised release on her conviction for wire fraud and filing false income tax returns, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - The Office of Justice Programs’ Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) has received multiple reports that individuals claiming to represent the Department of Justice are calling members of the public as part of an imposter scam. The Department strongly encourages the public to remain vigilant and not to provide personal information during these calls, which appear to target the elderly.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A convicted felon caught with an illegal firearm and ammunition during the execution of a state search warrant was sentenced to prison this week, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) today issued the following statement regarding the Treasury Department’s announced sanctions on Russian-aligned actors seeking to influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Oklahoma City, OK - The U.S. Marshals Service is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of an Enid man wanted on charges he manufactured and distributed child sex abuse images.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 30-year-old Coastal Bend resident has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of trafficking meth, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Nineteen years ago, he was a police officer with the New Jersey State Department of Corrections and a member of the Special Emergency Response Team, so when terrorists attacked on 9/11, Leonard Mitchell “saw our brothers and sisters in blue in distress and I felt it was my duty to respond."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Henry Williams, 55, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Chief Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to wire fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Al Stewart Jr., 21, from East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison for unlawful possession of a firearm while being a user of a controlled substance. Stewart pled guilty to the charges in June and has been in federal custody since his arrest last August. He will serve a three-year term of supervised release following his imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Manufacturers of “Spice" Sentenced for Operating a Continuing Criminal Enterprise and Other Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Five individuals from Elkhart, Indiana were charged by way of a 2 count Indictment with robbery affecting interstate commerce and using a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jorge Luis Velasquez, 33, of Mexico, Omar Velazquez Landeros, 27, of Bakersfield, and Victor Romero Galvan, 29, of Mexico, were indicted today for conspiring and possessing with intent to distribute over 10,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl and approximately 10 pounds...
