Month: May 2020
Portland, Biddeford and Auburn Awarded Funds to Address COVID-19 Pandemic | USAO-ME
PORTLAND, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) has awarded $219,535 to the City of Portland, $96,714 to the…
Intersection Of Domestic Violence And Guns In Utah: Using Federal Toolbox To Target Domestic Violence In Utah | USAO-UT
SALT LAKE CITY – Federal prosecutors and their law enforcement partners, concerned about how domestic violence disproportionately impacts Utah’s homicide rate, are targeting offenders who attempt to buy guns illegally…
United States Attorney’s Office Indicts 14 Cases And 21 Defendants | USAO-PR
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Last week, two federal grand juries in the District of Puerto Rico returned 14 indictments charging 21 defendants during the first week that the United…
Passenger at Cyril E. King Airport Charged with Smuggling Marijuana to St. Thomas | USAO-VI
St. Thomas, USVI –United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that an Information has been filed against Raquel Rivera for attempting to smuggle…
Arkansas Woman Held Without Bond After Being Charged With Aiding and Abetting the Attempted Murder of a Deputy US Marshal | USAO-NDMS
Oxford, Miss. – A United States Magistrate Judge has ordered that an Arkansas woman be held without bond following her arrest last Friday for aiding and abetting the attempted murder…
Arizona Man Sentenced to Eleven Years in Prison for Fentanyl Worth Over $6 Million | USAO-EDAR
LITTLE ROCK—An Arizona man was sentenced today to 132 months in federal prison for his involvement in a fentanyl conspiracy that took him through Russellville, Arkansas. Cody Hiland, United States…
Two Southern California Men Sentenced To Over 13 Years Combined In Federal Prison For Drug Trafficking | USAO-WDAR
Fort Smith, Arkansas – David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Stephen Mark Cox, age 57, of Beverly Hills, California, was sentenced…
$400,000 Restitution Ordered for Two Minor Victims in Production of Child Pornography Case | USAO-EDWA
Spokane – William D. Hyslop United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced Dale Gordon Black, age 63, of Kennewick, Washington, who had previously pled guilty to three…
Franklin, Tennessee-Based Rinova Settles Allegations Of Fraudulent Operations Of Former Pain MD Clinics | USAO-MDTN
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – May 20, 2020 – Franklin, Tennessee-based Rinova The Wellness Group, PC has settled the United States’ allegations that Medicare overpaid Rinova for claims that were non-payable due…
Montgomery Man Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Pornography | USAO-MDAL
Montgomery, Alabama – On Wednesday, May 20, 2020, Charles Bennett Salter III, a 38-year-old resident of Montgomery, Alabama, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney…
