News from August 2020
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Ukiah, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Ukiah Field Office has issued a temporary emergency closure for some of the BLM-managed public lands within and adjacent to the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument in Lake and Napa counties due to wildland fire danger. The closure is effective immediately and remains in effect until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that a federal grand jury in Cleveland has returned a four-count indictment charging Walter Ray Poindexter, age 32, of Cleveland with false information and hoaxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Cabell County man was convicted of federal drug and gun charges following a jury trial, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Operation LeGend. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - At a press conference in Kansas City, Missouri, today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced updates on Operation Legend. “Operation LeGend is working," said U.S. Attorney Tim Garrison in introducing Attorney General Barr. “In just four weeks, it has resulted...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A second Rhode Island man has been charged and arrested for his alleged involvement in the burning and destruction of a Providence Police cruiser during a riot in downtown Providence in the early morning hours of June 2, 2020.
By State Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Great Falls man who admitted trafficking methamphetamine after agents found more than five pounds of the drug at his residence was sentenced today to six years and eight months in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Department of Justice Argues That Vermont’s Barring Parochial Student from College Course Program Violates Constitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that James Albert Mayo, III, 39, of Shreveport, was sentenced today for being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition. U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Foote sentenced Mayo to 51 months, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $4 million grant to the North Dakota Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives, Mandan, North Dakota, to construct a new lineworker training facility in Mandan. The EDA grant will be matched with more than $1 million in local investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - In three unrelated cases, a federal grand jury today indicted aliens who are accused of returning to the United States after being deported, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that a federal grand jury in Cleveland has returned a four-count indictment charging Walter Ray Poindexter, age 32, of Cleveland with false information and hoaxes.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - On Aug. 18, 2020, Oscar Sepulveda was sentenced to 108 months in prison and ordered to pay $9,000 in restitution for distributing and possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) NorCal Special Agent in Charge Tatum King. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Beth L. Freeman, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dr. Felix Brizuela, Jr., a Pennsylvania physician operating offices in West Virginia, was indicted by a grand jury today on charges of illegally distributing controlled substances, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Palo Alto Battlefield NHP is pleased to announce that park volunteer Pat Rand was awarded the Regional Hartzog Enduring Service Award for 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Former Bureau of Prisons Corrections Officer Sentenced for Sexually Assaulting Two Women on Multiple Occasions and Lying to Investigators.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Joshual Tyrik Richburg, 21, of Biloxi, Mississippi, pled guilty today before U.S. District U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to one count of possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of a controlled substance, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and FBI Special-Agent-in-Charge Michelle Sutphin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: A Commerce man was sentenced Tuesday in federal court for distribution of methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
Release: CHICAGO - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator David Pekoske traveled to Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) to host a town hall meeting with agency employees today and meet with the local workforce.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Rodney Allen Rowan, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was indicted today on methamphetamine and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
