News from August 2020
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Training recently kicked off for the final class of commissioning technicians who will prepare Hanford ’s massive Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) for round-the-clock operations in the next few years to vitrify millions of gallons of radioactive tank waste.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Mario Alberto Rivas (50, Frostproof) to 10 years in federal prison for conspiring with others to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Jesus Wilfredo Encarnacion Attempted to Travel Overseas to Join Lashkar e-Tayyiba.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Maxine Williams, 48, of Washington, D.C., was presented today in federal court on a one-count criminal complaint charging her with interstate transportation of stolen property stemming from the theft of more than $100,000 of donor checks from a local non-profit organization, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin, U.S Postal Inspector-in-Charge for the Washington Division, Peter Rendina, and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Peter Newsham.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, called for a coordinated federal response to households in Michigan and across the country that received unsolicited packages of seeds in the mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: A two-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Davon Brown and Christian Williams, members of the violent street gang Folk Nation Gangster Disciples, with being felons in possession of a firearm in connection with their involvement in a March 14, 2020 shooting that wounded a man. The defendants were arrested this morning and will make their initial appearance this afternoon via videoconference before United States Magistrate Judge Peggy Kuo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A Lodge Grass man today admitted strangled his girlfriend during an assault last year at her residence on the Crow Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - TOMMY DEAN BULLCOMING, 56, of Hammon, Oklahoma, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Charles B. Goodwin to serve life in federal prison for the first-degree felony murder in Indian Country and related offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing. In addition, Bullcoming was ordered to pay $17,613 in restitution for damage to the victim’s home and vehicle as well as funeral expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to 11 1/2 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute an ounce of cocaine and possession of firearm after being convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The founder and former CEO of an investment firm that specializes in debt instruments was arrested this morning on federal charges alleging he falsified financial records to fraudulently inflate the value of the funds he managed, allowing him to charge investors millions of dollars in unauthorized fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The founder and former CEO of an investment firm that specializes in debt instruments was arrested this morning on federal charges alleging he falsified financial records to fraudulently inflate the value of the funds he managed, allowing him to charge investors millions of dollars in unauthorized fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Artavius Horne, a/k/a “Lo", 36, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to 45 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Gerald J. Pappert for sex trafficking three children for years.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) raised concerns about Twitter’s lack of internal controls to protect the security of user accounts and called on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to provide information about what measures and employee training the company has put in place to prevent cyberattacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Friday, August 7, 2020 James K. Nicksion (age 24) of Milwaukee was sentenced by the Honorable Judge Lynn Adelman to 60 months’ imprisonment. Once released, Nicksion will serve a three-year term of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Census Takers to Follow Up With About 56 Million Households Nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - Bruce Edward Johnson, 27, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 36 months in prison. Johnson was involved in a conspiracy to distribute more than 400 grams of fentanyl centered in the Clinton-Peabody housing complex on the near south side of the City of St. Louis. He appeared before the Honorable Catherine D. Perry.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Samuel Mara, 24, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with posting a video on Facebook threatening to injure or kill another person. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: A man who allegedly threatened to commit a church shooting in Lubbock has been charged with a firearm offense following an investigation led by FBI Dallas’ Lubbock Resident Agency with support from ATF and HSI, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On August 5, 2020, Savannah Grissum, 22, of Douglasville, Georgia, and Alonzo Dean Westmoreland, 31, of Kennesaw, Georgia, were sentenced by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Keith Lessard, 40, of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging that he mailed threatening communications to a Kanawha County Circuit Judge. According to the criminal complaint, Lessard engaged...
