News published on Federal Newswire in August 2020

News from August 2020


Special Agent in Charge Piro Press Statement

News Release: Special Agent in Charge Piro Press Statement.


Indianapolis will Receive Assistance from Operation Legend

News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that Operation Legend will be expanding into the City of Indianapolis. Operation Legend is named in honor of four-year-old Legend Taliferro, who was shot and killed while he slept early on the morning of June 29 in Kansas City.


News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Involuntary Manslaughter and Perjury.


News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Involuntary Manslaughter and Perjury.


News Release: BOSTON - LaFrance Hospitality, operator of 14 hotels in New England, has entered an agreement under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to resolve allegations that the showers in the accessible rooms of their New Bedford Marriott Fairfield hotel were inaccessible to persons with disabilities.


FBI/New York Police Department Violent Crimes Task Force Offers Reward for Information About an Armed Bank Robber

News Release: MANHATTAN, NY-The New York FBI/New York Police Department Joint Violent Crimes Task Force is offering a reward of up to $5,000 leading to the arrest of a man wanted in connection with at least two armed bank robberies. Investigators say William Maybank was last seen in the last few weeks at 106 West 83rd Street in Manhattan.


News Release: A Grapevine child sexual predator was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.


News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that Operation Legend will be expanding into the City of Indianapolis. Operation Legend is named in honor of four-year-old Legend Taliferro, who was shot and killed while he slept early on the morning of June 29 in Kansas City.


NOAA awards $3.1 million to 21 small businesses to develop new technology

News Release: NOAA has awarded $3.1 million in grants to 21 small businesses from 14 states to support the development of innovative technology for aquaculture, commercial and recreational fisheries, weather prediction, earth and ocean observations and modeling.


Haleakalā National Park Premiere of New Film “Koa Talking to Me”

News Release: Kula, Maui - On Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, the National Park Service is premiering a new short park film online called Koa Talking to Me.


Seeking Victims in the Jose Ovidio Torres Investigation

News Release: Seeking Victims in the Jose Ovidio Torres Investigation.


News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Alfonso Lorenzo Boyd (36, Tampa) to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison and Victor Jason Valentin (28, Mulberry) to 3 years and 10 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl. Boyd and Valentin had pleaded guilty in October 2019.


Monroe Man Sentenced to 24 years in Prison

News Release: 24-Year Prison Sentence for Fentanyl and Heroin Trafficker.


Little Rock Central High School NHS to host online program on the life of Harriet Tubman

News Release: Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site - in partnership with Washitaw Foothills Youth Media Arts & Literacy Collective, Shelter-In-Place Virtual Film Series, Arkansas PBS and the Arkansas Peace and Justice Memorial Movement - presents a free online program featuring Harriet Tubman biographer Kate Clifford Larson and Tina Martin Wyatt, the great-great-great-grandniece of Tubman.


Graham, N.C. Man Is Sentenced To More Than Five Years For $1.1 Million Investment Scheme

News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced that on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020, Mark Colin Ramsey, 50, of Graham, N.C., was sentenced to 65 months in prison for operating a $1.1 million investment scheme. U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger also ordered Ramsey to serve three years of supervised release and to pay restitution in the amount of $1,098,333.92.


News Release: Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania NMP To Alter Exit from Lee Drive to Lafayette Boulevard.


Providence Man Charged with Arson of Providence Police Cruiser

News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence, RI, man was arrested and arraigned in U.S. District Court in Providence today on a charge of arson for allegedly setting fire to a Providence Police Department cruiser in the early morning hours of June 2, 2020, during a riot in downtown Providence.


News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A California man has been arrested for defrauding victims in New Jersey through an investment scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.


Reclamation announces 2021 Colorado River operating conditions

News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation today released the Colorado River Basin August 2020 24-Month Study, which sets annual operations for Lake Mead and Lake Powell in 2021. Based on projections in the Study, Lake Mead will operate in the Normal Condition in Calendar Year 2021 and Lake Powell will operate in the Upper Elevation Balancing Tier in Water Year 2021 (Oct. 1, 2020 through Sept. 30, 2021).


News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Andy Levin, a member of the Committee, today called on Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs R. Clarke Cooper to sit for a transcribed interview with the Committee after...