AG Jennings Sues Avid Telecom Over Billions Of Illegal Robocalls
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Fraud | Newsroom | Date Posted: Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Attorney General Kathy Jennings today sued Avid Telecom for allegedly initiating and facilitating billions of illegal robocalls. Avid Telecom sent or transmitted more than 7.5 billion calls to telephone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry, and made 27 million calls to Delawareans. “We often think of illegal robocalls as a nuisance, but they […]
Millsboro PD Officer Indicted For Drug Tampering
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Monday, May 22, 2023
Defendant faces multiple felonies after stealing drug evidence The Department of Justice’s Division of Civil Rights & Public Trust has indicted a Millsboro police sergeant and evidence custodian after an investigation revealed that he tampered with and used drugs stored in the Department’s evidence locker. Matthew Dufour, 34, faces ten charges—including multiple felonies such […]
DOJ Secures Lengthy Prison Sentence for Dover Man in 2022 Violent Gun Case
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Monday, May 22, 2023
On May 11, 37-year-old Kyle Leonard pled guilty to Murder 2nd Degree in Kent County Superior Court. Leonard was sentenced to 40 years in prison, suspended after 30 years for 6 months of work release or home confinement, followed by two years of probation. The conviction and sentence follow an investigation into Leonard fatally shooting his mother, […]
U.S. Supreme Court Denies Fossil Fuel Companies’ Petition for Hearing
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Monday, May 15, 2023
Order sends Delaware’s climate damage & deception lawsuit back to State court WASHINGTON — Today, the Supreme Court of the United States DENIED the petition for a writ of certiorari submitted by fossil fuel companies appealing their failure to move Delaware’s climate damage and deception lawsuit out of state court and into federal court. The question […]
DOJ, DSP Secure Indictment and Arrest in 2009 Homicide
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Monday, May 1, 2023
A Newark man has been indicted and arrested for a 2009 homicide following a cold case investigation. On April 24, 31-year-old Ricardo J. Vega was indicted on two counts of Murder 1st Degree for the killing of 19-year-old Justin Trnka. Trnka, also of Newark, was killed during an armed robbery on March17,2009. Potential charges for the armed robbery are subject to a statute of limitations […]
