News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA- Antonio DaShawn Daniels has been indicted on federal charges related to possession with the intent to distribute heroin, cocaine, and marijuana, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that James Millette, 33, of Reading, PA, was sentenced to 235 months (over 19 years) in prison and lifetime supervised release by United States District Judge Joseph F. Leeson, Jr., for multiple child pornography charges. The defendant was also ordered to pay a total of $66,000 in restitution to the various victims depicted in these images.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Grand Canyon National Park has received confirmation that a bat collected at the Whitmore Helipad, located along the Colorado River near river mile 187 on August 6, has tested positive for rabies. The rabies positive bat did not come in contact with any visitors. In recent months...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Joseph LaForte, 49, of Haverford, PA, was arrested and charged by Indictment with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Santiago Ordonez Felipe, age 47, a citizen of Guatemala, was sentenced today to time served (36 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: GOLDEN, CO - Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced the launch of the Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) platform at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). ARIES is a cutting-edge research platform that will allow NREL researchers and the scientific community to address the fundamental challenges of integrated energy systems at scale.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - DEA Special Agent in Charge Eduardo A. Chavez of the Dallas Field Division, announced that Tulsa physician Dr. Christopher V. Moses pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma to conspiring to distribute controlled substances, as well as maintaining a drug involved premises at his medical clinic where he and others acting on his behalf unlawfully issued prescriptions for controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Colombian national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to cocaine trafficking and illegal reentry charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: More than 200 law enforcement officers died by suicide in 2019. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline may be reached at 1-800-273-8255 and provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress. We are HERE for law enforcement, HELP is a phone call away, and above all there is always HOPE.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of Everett and Worcester auto body shops was charged today with a payroll tax scheme resulting in a $292,231 tax loss.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged two men in a narcotics conspiracy that involved the seizure of more than half a million dollars and one kilogram of fentanyl.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - As a result of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) under Operation Stolen Promise, the U.S. Department of Justice obtained a temporary restraining order in federal court to combat fraud related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The enforcement action, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Cincinnati man who paid $3,000 for a tiger skin rug pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to violating the Endangered Species Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Washington County has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Tahjmalyk Porter, 24, Middleton, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to two years of probation for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Jay Edward Thompson, age 43, of Winslow, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole followed by five years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Aug. 11, 2020, a federal grand jury indicted Robert Andrewsh, Jr., age 25, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, with methamphetamine trafficking and firearms offenses.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The chief executive officer of Central Rexall Drugs Inc., a Louisiana pharmacy used by numerous individuals to defraud New Jersey health benefits programs and other insurers out of more than $50 million, has admitted her guilt, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Colombian national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to cocaine trafficking and illegal reentry charges.
