News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Warwick man who allegedly took on several identities has been arrested by members of the Rhode Island DEA Drug Task Force and ordered detained in federal custody on charges of being an armed drug trafficker, after law enforcement executed court-authorized searches of his residence and two vehicles he regularly used and seized a kilogram of heroin, a loaded firearm, ammunition, and more than $200,000 in cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Wade J. Paulisick, Jr., 22, of Jamestown, NY, with possessing with intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two men pled guilty this week to federal firearm crimes, according to United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - United States District Court Chief Judge Gustavo A. Gelpí sentenced Enrique Sánchez Hernández to 210 months (17 years and six months) in prison followed by a supervised release term of 30 years for Production of Child Pornography, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Jason Lebron, 28, of Syracuse, NY, was sentenced today to serve 92 months in federal prison based on his previous guilty plea for violating the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Chief Kenton Buckner, City of Syracuse Police Department.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Beginning Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, the park will prepare and paint the open metal shell buildings, referred to as "ghost structures," and the train depot at the Blue Heron outdoor museum in Stearns, Kentucky. Crews will close and paint one ghost structure while all others will remain open to minimize...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), House Education and Labor Committee Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), and Republican members of the Oversight Committee sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos probing the lawfulness of local orders prohibiting private and parochial schools from safely reopening and providing in-person instruction to students.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA: An admitted methamphetamine trafficker and criminal street gang member has been sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Federal agents yesterday arrested two individuals charged with distributing fentanyl that resulted in death and serious bodily injury, announced U.S. Attorney Prim Escalona and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Ten individuals were separately charged by complaint or indictment during the past week in the Eastern District of New York with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 13, 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 million grant to Battle Creek Unlimited, Battle Creek, Michigan, to develop a food processing incubator to serve the region’s food processing firms. The EDA grant, to be matched with $2 million in local funding, is expected to create more than 100 jobs and generate $8 million in private investment.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), House Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.) today sent a letter to U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) Chairman Jason E. Kearns...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A South Charleston man pled guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Eric Wiseman, 39, pled guilty to attempting to possess with intent to distribute marijuana.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: LAKE HAVASU, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Lake Havasu Field Office has completed an Environmental Assessment (EA) and is seeking public input on a proposed mine plan from the Bonanza Mining Company for the Harquahala Mine Project. This project would allow for the removal, transport, and...
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will post the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the proposed LaGuardia Airport AirTrain on August 21. A 45-day public comment period for the DEIS will begin on August 21 and ends October 5, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Yesterday, Juan Diego Ibanez, 40, of Rio Rico, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Scott Rash to 15 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Ibanez previously pleaded guilty to bank fraud.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota led a letter along with Reps. Kind, Reed, Thompson (PA), Brindisi, Fulcher, Torres Small, and Gonzalez (OH) on the implementation of dairy provisions in the USMCA. The letter was signed by 104 Members of Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Department of Justice Awards over $1 Million in Forensic Grants to Aid Wyoming Investigators.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Kansas man was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison for heroin trafficking, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that the Middle District of Louisiana received $499,458 from the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs and its component, the Office for Victims of Crime, to provide safe, stable housing and other appropriate services to victims of human trafficking.
