News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 35-year-old resident of Mexico City, Mexico, has been ordered to prison for bulk cash smuggling, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Victim Was Allegedly Shot Outside a Bar in Prospect Lefferts Gardens.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Nelson Pablo Yester-Garrido (62, of Cuba) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute a large amount of high-grade marijuana in the Middle District of Florida. Yester-Garrido faces a maximum penalty of 40 years in federal prison. Sentencing is set for Oct. 22, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - A former nurse from Vancouver, Washington was sentenced to federal prison today for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court to 33 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release on her conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: One defendant also pled guilty to witness intimidation.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: CEDAR CITY, Utah - On Aug. 15, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Cedar City Field Office will begin gather operations to remove excess wild horses from within and outside of the Sulphur Herd Management Area (HMA) in Beaver and Millard counties. The gather is expected to last approximately 16 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, along with the St. Paul Fire Department, St. Paul Police Department and the Minnesota State Fire Marshal Division, today made a final determination that the downtown St. Paul hotel construction site, destroyed on August 4, 2020, was a result of an intentionally set fire.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Teton Interagency Dispatch Center received a “fall into crevasse" notification from a satellite communication device at approximately 10:30 p.m. on Friday, August 7. The message included some GPS coordinates that indicated the incident was near the Teton Glacier. Despite additional attempts to establish two-way communications with the reporting party, no more information was provided.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Mario Figueroa-Portalatin, age 41, of Troy, New York, pled guilty today to conspiring to distribute 10 kilograms of heroin.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: EM has selected Nicole Nelson-Jean to serve as EM’s associate principal deputy assistant secretary for field operations, effective at the end of this month.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and U.S. Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), today called for a criminal investigation into Interior Solicitor General Daniel Jorjani after a new report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) confirmed...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that a federal complaint has been filed charging Yamini Potter with eighty counts of wire fraud, two counts of impersonating a federal judge, obstruction of justice in violation of federal law, two counts of acting in assumed character, and one count of grand larceny in violation of Virgin Islands law.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Chesapeake doctor pleaded guilty today to distribution of amphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that a federal complaint has been filed charging Eilin Castillo-Montano with illegally reentering the United States. According to court documents, authorities received information in May...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that Jaquar Keyshore Latimer, age 43, of Akron, was sentenced by Judge Sara Lioi to 199 months imprisonment after being found guilty during a trial by jury of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of firearms as a convicted felon on Aug. 23, 2019.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Ranking Member Rick Crawford (R-AR) today released the following statement regarding the Senate passage of the PIPES Act...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C., Aug. 11, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that additional commodities are covered by the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) in response to public comments and data. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is extending the deadline...
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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Concord, NH - This afternoon, last week’s featured “Fugitive of the Week," Trisha Marie Ricker, 34 years-of-age was located and arrested at a hotel in the 3000 block of Lafayette Road in Portsmouth, NH. Ms. Ricker was being sought on multiple outstanding arrest warrants issued by both the Rockingham...
