News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an charging eight members of a drug trafficking organization with offenses related to the distribution of cocaine and heroin. (See chart for details).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: The sentence is significantly longer than the overly lenient negotiated sentence offered to the defendant by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Canadian man pleaded guilty yesterday to orchestrating an online sextortion scheme and producing images of child sexual abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Allen Hanuscak, 65, who has resided in Elkhart Indiana and Ohio, was charged by way of an Indictment with bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, California Aug. 13, 2020- The 16-mile Generals Highway Rehabilitation Project that has been underway during the last two construction seasons is expected to be finalized later this year, but critical work remains that requires temporary road closures. The Generals...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 28-year-old Dallas, Texas, man has been sentenced for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Tom Carper (D-DE) introduced legislation to protect the longstanding tradition of reliable delivery service at the U.S. Postal Service and block the new Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, from making any abrupt operational changes that might harm service during the Coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Allen Hanuscak, 65, who has resided in Elkhart Indiana and Ohio, was charged by way of an Indictment with bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK -Tyler C. King, age 31, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for computer fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with his hacking of a New York-based technology company.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Three California men have pleaded guilty in federal court to possessing with the intent to distribute more than one pound of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich of the District of Nevada.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has signed an alliance with the North American Meat Institute (NAMI) to provide information, guidance and access to training resources for protecting workers in the meatpacking and processing industry from exposures to the coronavirus.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Four residents of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and one resident of Cypress, California, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Operation LeGend. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man has been charged in federal court with illegally possessing the firearm he accidentally fired in a fatal shooting at the Kansas City Zoo. Anthony R. Meneses, 27, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, NY-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Diones Bowens, 24, of Ashtabula, Ohio, who was convicted of conspiracy to transfer firearms purchased outside of state of residency, was sentenced to serve two years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A parolee with multiple prior felony convictions was sentenced to a total of 188 months in prison for illegally possessing firearms and distributing methamphetamine, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - From August 17-23, 2020, the following areas of the upper Gibbon River drainage in the central portion of Yellowstone National Park will close for native fisheries restoration work.
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 $13.6 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, TX-The Federal Bureau of Investigation San Antonio Division, Laredo Resident Agency Office, is seeking information from the public about a missing teenage girl.
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 $3.2 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to eight EDA Economic Development District organizations across Mississippi to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
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.
