News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: FBI Statement on the Arrest of a Suspect in the Murder of a 15-Year-Old San Francisco Victim.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.5 million grant to Banks County, Georgia, to make critical wastewater infrastructure improvements needed to support the region’s growing manufacturing base. The EDA grant, to be matched with $3 million in local funds, is expected to generate $200 million in private investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - The Jackson Police Department in cooperation with the United States Marshals Service conducted a compliance operation, Just Diligence, of 104 registered sex offender residing in Jackson, TN on August 4, 2020. During that operation one offender was indicted and arrested for residing in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - An attorney was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in an international securities fraud scheme that sought to generate $15 million in fraudulent proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal grand jury in Providence today returned indictments charging two Rhode Island men in separate Project Safe Childhood child sex exploitation investigations, announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman and Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division Joseph R. Bonavolonta.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Largest U.S. Seizure of Iranian Fuel from Four Tankers.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: DETROIT, MI - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement on reports that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has begun removing some mail processing machines and collection boxes from processing facilities and communities across the country, including in Michigan...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - New billboards at several Kansas City, Missouri, locations will encourage the community to take action to reduce violent crime as part of Operation LeGend.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.3 million grant to the University of Rhode Island Research Foundation, Kingston, Rhode Island, to establish the “401 Tech Bridge" advanced materials innovation...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Ocean County, New Jersey, import companies have agreed to resolve violations of the Defense Production Act (DPA) of 1950 for price-gouging customers of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic by agreeing to sell at cost approximately 11 million items of PPE seized from three warehouses by law enforcement in April 2020, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - Dariyon Martin, 22, of St. Louis, Missouri, was charged by a federal complaint with being a felon in possession of a firearm, robbery, and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Approximately 134 Pounds of Methamphetamine Seized.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Brandon Spann was sentenced today to 30 months in prison after earlier pleading guilty to a federal cyberstalking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Erick Lizarraga, 30, of Fresno was sentenced today to 15 years and eight months in prison for conspiring to traffic methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: The single-lane closures will be in effect from 7:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday, each week.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: To ensure the safety of convention attendees and the residents of Charlotte, The U.S. Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department announce a “No Drone Zone" during the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Charlotte, N.C., Aug. 24, 2020. Read the full announcement from the U.S. Secret Service.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a Puerto Rican man was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Court Chief Gustavo A. Gelpí to 17 years in prison followed by a period of 30 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DESNY SOSA-HERNANDEZ, 41, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a legal decision concluding that President Donald Trump’s appointments to senior leadership positions at the Department of Homeland Security were illegal and circumvented both the Federal Vacancy Reform Act and the Homeland Security Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today that Violet Anne Golden, the former chairperson of the Virgin Islands Casino Control Commission, was sentenced to 24 months in prison following an earlier guilty plea to Theft of Government Funds and Failing to File an Income Tax Return. Golden was also ordered to pay restitution.
