News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - An Indiana man has been arrested on a federal fraud charge for allegedly scheming to sell expensive artwork stolen from a storage facility in a north suburb of Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Anthem, Arizona, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Pay Child Support.
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 $2.8 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to seven EDA Economic Development District organizations across Alabama to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Manuel Chavira, 25, was charged on Aug. 3, 2020 in a recently-unsealed federal criminal complaint. Chavira was charged with both carjacking and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening made the following statement regarding the suspension of several United States Agency for Global Media officials...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -The Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee, along with Republican Leaders of three Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittees, sent letters to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D. and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler to ask about the federal agencies’ COVID-19 surveillance efforts, including the use of wastewater as a surveillance tool.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on Aug. 10, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
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 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 $3.2 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to eight EDA Economic Development District organizations across Louisiana to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -The Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee, along with Republican Leaders of three Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittees, sent letters to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D. and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler to ask about the federal agencies’ COVID-19 surveillance efforts, including the use of wastewater as a surveillance tool.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, Hunter Lavon Brown, a 26-year-old from Deatsville, Alabama, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. and FBI Special Agent in Charges James Jewell.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Defendant Submitted Approximately $6.9 Million in Fraudulent Claims Under Co-Pay Reimbursement Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Dominican national living in Providence admitted to a federal court judge today that he led a conspiracy in Rhode Island in 2014 to import multiple kilograms of heroin and cocaine from California, and that he conspired with individuals working at his direction to store, process, and package the drugs at an apartment in West Warwick he rented and used as a stash house.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man today admitted using Facebook and other online web forums to cyberstalk victims, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A Fayetteville man was sentenced yesterday to 57 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a felon in connection with an August 2018 shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Bradley S. Roenfeldt, age 58, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today to 180 months’ imprisonment for transportation of child pornography by United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Wilmer Rosales (22, Plant City), a/k/a “DoubleU," and Joel Sierra (25, Plant City), a/k/a “Jojo," with conspiring to traffic in controlled substances, conspiring to commit robbery, and robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -Yvon Loretto, of Nambe Pueblo, New Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on August 11th to abusive sexual contact in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man today admitted using Facebook and other online web forums to cyberstalk victims, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Western WY- The Bridger-Teton National Forest will implement fire restrictions beginning Thursday, August 13. Visitors and local residents are reminded to be fire wise while recreating on federal lands.
