News from August 2020
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Wyoming State Office plans to offer 260 parcels totaling about 282,731 acres in an oil and gas lease sale the week of Dec. 14, 2020. This includes 61 parcels nominated for the December sale as well as 199 parcels totaling about 219,418 acres that were deferred from lease sales earlier this year due to their inclusion of Greater Sage-grouse habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Albuquerque, N.M. - On Thursday, August 6, agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Violent Crime Task Force (VCTF) arrested David Martinez and Jean Madrid, both of Albuquerque.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Five western Pennsylvania residents have been indicted separately by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and charged with various schemes to defraud the Social Security Administration (SSA), United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Tucson, AZ - Saguaro National Park is responding to two lightning fires reported following a thunderstorm that passed through the Rincon Mountains on August 13. The fires are burning in remote areas, in high elevation areas within the Saguaro Wilderness. Smoke may be visible from Tucson, Redington Pass, Mescal, and the surrounding area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: A St. Louis-area dentist has been sentenced to prison for defrauding Illinois Medicaid out of.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PENNI SHERMAN, also known as PENNI PARKER, 53, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to eight months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for fraud and tax offenses stemming from an embezzlement scheme. Judge Shea ordered Sherman to spend the first two months of supervised release in home confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Houston, TX - Juan Toribio Guevara was captured Wednesday by members of the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force (GCVOTF) in Houston, TX after being a fugitive on the run for more than 19 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Opelousas Woman Sentenced to 5 Years in Federal Prison for Federal Drug Charges.
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: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Phillip Grant Boyles, of Kerens, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 46 months of incarceration for his role in a methamphetamine distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, California Aug. 14, 2020- Work schedule modifications have allowed for the necessary work to get done without disrupting park and forest visitors with weeknight road closures. A completion date for this 16-mile Generals Highway Rehabilitation Project has not been set, and visitors should continue to factor in delay schedules and possible unpaved sections of road to their trip planning.
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 - Korey Linnell Johnson, age 36, of Hayti, Missouri, was sentenced Aug. 12 to 17 years in prison on one count of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A New York man will spend the next six and half years in federal prison for an October 2019 bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: That sad state of affairs - where the mishandling of Mr. Patterson’s original case necessitated federal involvement - is symbolic of a larger catastrophe that is playing out before our eyes in Philadelphia. Homicides, shootings, and serious violent crime have all skyrocketed in 2020 - from already intolerable...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: POCATELLO, Idaho - As part of the Trump Administration’s commitment to responsibly develop the nation’s natural resources, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Idaho Falls District Office has approved the Blackrock Land Exchange. The exchange will enable the J.R. Simplot Company (Simplot) to expand its...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: NSA and FBI Expose Russian Previously Undisclosed Malware Drovorub in Cybersecurity Advisory.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - Troy Jackson, 28, of St. Louis, Missouri, was charged by a federal complaint with being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Largest Ever Seizure of Terrorist Organizations' Cryptocurrency Accounts.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Investments to Benefit More Than 222,000 Residents and Commercial Customers WASHINGTON, Aug. 13, 2020 – The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $371 million to build and improve critical electric infrastructure that will benefit more than 222,000 rural residents and commercial customers in 11 states.
