News from August 2020
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Kremmling, Colo. - Stage 2 fire restrictions begin Thursday, August 13th for Bureau of Land Management (BLM) administered lands in Grand and Eagle counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - A Raleigh man was sentenced today to 168 months in prison for conspiring with others to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute over 1,000 kilograms of marijuana and engaging in a money laundering conspiracy. He was also ordered by the court to forfeit $2,708,000 in laundered drug proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Carlos Rivera, age 43, of Chatham, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a felon and possession with the intent to distribute cocaine.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) recently awarded contracts to purchase up to eight million low-frequency radio frequency identification (RFID) ear tags, which will help increase overall animal disease traceability in cattle and bison. The ...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: As part of ongoing efforts required under the Endangered Species Act to monitor the population of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, biologists with the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) will conduct pre-baiting and trapping operations within Grand Teton National Park between August 14 and November 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Connecticut man has been charged in federal court in Boston with firearm trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Steven Somers, of Clinton, Maryland, was sentenced today to 78 months incarceration for drug and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A complaint was unsealed today in San Jose alleging that Mario Orozco and Teodoro Ayon-Ramos distributed methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux. Both defendants were arrested at their residences, one in San Jose and the other in Los Banos, on Aug. 11, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Law Enforcement Seized 30 Firearms and Nearly 2.5 Pounds of Heroin, Methamphetamine, Cocaine, and Crack Cocaine.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failing to meet their contractual obligations...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Dear Postmaster DeJoy: We write to express significant concern regarding reports that you are implementing policy changes that will increase the cost for timely delivery of election mail, and to urge you not to take any action that makes it harder and more expensive for Americans to vote. Like voting...
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, co-chairs of the Jewish Latino Congressional Caucus, Reps. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), Eliot Engel (NY-16), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23), Will Hurd (TX-23), and Mario Diaz Balart (FL-25) released the following statement in support of the No Hate Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael T. Mann, age 50, of Saratoga County, New York, pled guilty today to orchestrating a years-long fraud that caused more than $100 million in losses to banks, financing companies, and other businesses.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
Release: AUSTIN, Texas - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) suffered the loss of the first-ever passenger screening canine in the state of Texas. Evan, a black Labrador retriever, who retired in August 2017, passed away earlier this month. He was 10 years old.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Three separate criminal complaints were unsealed yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn charging defendants Richard Arline, Jr., Donnell Russell and Michael Williams, respectively, with crimes relating to their efforts to harass, intimidate, threaten or corruptly influence individuals named as alleged victims in the racketeering case against Robert Sylvester Kelly, also known as “R. Kelly," currently pending in the Eastern District of New York (the Kelly case).
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: LUMPKIN, GA - A Costa Rican man in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, died late Monday at an area hospital. Jose Guillen-Vega, 70, was pronounced dead at 11:37 p.m. local time by medical professionals at the Piedmont Columbus Regional...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A man who committed murder in Osage County in 2015 was sentenced today in federal court, announced United States Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - John William McMahon, 30, of Hampton, pleaded guilty in federal court to distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on Aug. 12, 2020, after a three-day trial, a federal jury convicted Devin L. Ashford, 33, of Lincoln, Nebraska, of Sex Trafficking of a Minor; Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, or Coercion; Production of Child Pornography; and Interstate Transportation...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.7 million grant to the Greene County Board of Commissioners, Xenia, Ohio, to provide modern sanitary sewer infrastructure needed to protect businesses against damage from future severe weather events. The EDA grant will be matched with $2.5 million in local investment.
