News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Three different businesses robbed while threating the clerk with a gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Max Chambers (21, St. Petersburg), a former University of Central Florida student, today pleaded guilty to possession of a machine gun. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A former Army soldier stationed at Fort Riley was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for distributing instructions for making explosives, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. After his prison time, the defendant will serve three years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: SAN JOSE - 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 Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) 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: Government seized more than $360,000 in cash from drug trafficking organization.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Cane River Creole National Historical Park is the first site in Louisiana to partner with Chronolog to engage visitors in a new citizen science project. Photo stations have been created where visitors can email photographs taken from specific sites along trails to create time lapses of historic landscapes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Defendant is an Airman First Class Stationed at Hill Air Force Base.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA and LAS VEGAS - United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, William M. McSwain, and United States Attorney for the District of Nevada, Nicholas A. Trutanich, jointly announced that Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada (Catholic Charities) has agreed to pay $206,368.35 to resolve claims arising from its administration of community service grants funded through the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 19-year-old McKinney, Texas man has been sentenced for federal firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen. J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Desmond Logan, 35, a former officer with the Chattanooga Police Department (CPD), was sentenced by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, U.S. District Court Judge in the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A federal grand jury has handed down two separate indictments charging a Charleston tax preparer and her mother in connection with a fraud scheme, according to United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal complaint unsealed Wednesday charges a fifth individual with one count of using fire and explosives to damage and destroy a Salt Lake City Police Department patrol car during May 30, 2020, riots in Salt Lake City.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 19-year-old McKinney, Texas man has been sentenced for federal firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen. J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Desmond Logan, 35, a former officer with the Chattanooga Police Department (CPD), was sentenced by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, U.S. District Court Judge in the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: FBI Los Angeles Participates in National Messaging Campaign to Educate Citizens About Election Security and Foreign Malign Influence in Advance of the November Election.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Charged in 2017 with misusing client funds, the defendant has now been charged again with financial fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp today sentenced Antonio Chandler (40, Sanford) to five years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine. Chandler had pleaded guilty to his role in the conspiracy on June 4, 2020. His...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) wants the public’s help to determine its cutest canine in honor of National Dog Day, Wednesday, Aug. 26. The TSA Cutest Canine Contest features four “top dog" finalists.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Fall River woman pleaded guilty today in federal court to stealing Social Security disability benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANCISCO LEON, also known as “Gordo," 41, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin and illegally possessing firearms.
