DOJ Secures Life Sentence For Serial Stalker
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, September 29, 2023
A New Castle man has been sentenced to life in prison following convictions in two domestic violence cases. On September 22, David Jewell, 47, was declared a habitual offender and sentenced to life in prison for convictions of felony Stalking, Harassment, and 24 counts of Terroristic Threatening, following an investigation into hundreds of violent phone calls and messages targeting two victims, one of whom was a […]
AG Jennings Sues Amazon For Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Fraud | Newsroom | Date Posted: Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Attorney General Jennings yesterday joined the Federal Trade Commission and 16 other state attorneys general to sue Amazon.com, Inc. alleging that the online retail and technology company is a monopolist that uses a set of interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power. The FTC and its state partners say Amazon’s actions […]
AG Jennings, DSP Colonel Zebley Announce Felony Indictment Against Suspended Trooper
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Tuesday, September 26, 2023
A Delaware State Trooper has been charged with multiple felonies, including Delaware’s first-ever use of a new Deprivation of Civil Rights statute passed by lawmakers last year, for brutally assaulting a 15-year-old victim and fracturing his orbital socket in response to an apparent prank. The Trooper is suspended without pay. “As a mother and grandmother, […]
Governor Carney and First Lady Tracey Quillen Carney Recognize September as Literacy Month in Delaware
Civil Division | Delaware Libraries | Department of Education | Department of State | Former Governor John Carney (2017-2025) | Newsroom | Office of the Governor | Date Posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Literacy Month is intended to recognize the extensive efforts of literacy partners to promote reading as an essential skill and a lifelong pleasure.
Investor Protection Unit Puts Pig Butchers On Ice, Again
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Investor Protection | Newsroom | Date Posted: Monday, September 18, 2023
The Investor Protection Unit of the Delaware Department of Justice has issued a Summary Order to Cease and Desist against respondents linked to a cryptocurrency scam known as the “pig butchering scam.” A twist on the typical romance scam, the pig butchering scam is a long-term fraud in which victims are groomed over time to make investments […]
