News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A St. Joseph, Missouri, man was charged in federal court today with producing, distributing, and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An admitted fentanyl and cocaine trafficker arrested one day after he fled members of the FBI Safe Streets Task Force during an April 2019 investigation into his drug trafficking activities was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman and Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Smethport, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal tax laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Emory University have discovered that some bird species in the sub-Arctic tend to ingest larger amounts of pollutants than others during periods of climate variation.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million grant to Pulaski County, Arkansas, to make critical roadway infrastructure improvements to the Fourche Dam Pike Road Corridor to support new business...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Daniel John Ferrer (29, Davenport) has pleaded guilty to making a false statement while attempting to purchase a firearm. Ferrer faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Denton, TX - On Aug. 3, 2020 the Denton Police Department, along with the United States Marshals Service, and partnering agencies conducted operation “Denton 2020," a two-day city-wide sex offender compliance check, which yielded contacts with 146 registered sex offenders.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kenneth Gaughan, 41, of Washington, D.C., was arrested and charged by a criminal complaint, unsealed today, with fraudulently obtaining over $2.1 million in Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP") loans and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (“EIDL"). He used those funds, in part, to purchase a...
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: St. Louis, MO -Michael Brooks, 55, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for distribution of actual (pure) methamphetamine. The quantity of actual methamphetamine, for which Brooks is accountable, is at least 50 grams but less than 150 grams. Brooks appeared in federal court today before United States District Judge Henry E. Autrey.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - Pursuant to an ongoing investigation into Robert Sylvester Kelly, also known as “R. Kelly," initiated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York and the New York City Police Department (NYPD), three separate criminal complaints were unsealed...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Virginia man pleaded guilty in federal court in Columbus today to participating in a racketeering conspiracy in Columbus on behalf of the transnational gang MS-13.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth, House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey, and House Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney sent a letter to Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), requesting documentation on the apportionment of appropriations in the remaining weeks of this fiscal year after the Director failed to assure the House leaders that OMB would not abuse the apportionment process.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Defendant perpetrated one of the largest deceased beneficiary frauds in Social Security Administration history.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A leader of the Rhode Island Chapter of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty today to conspiracy charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay" Pak announced that Wellspring Living, in the Northern District of Georgia received $500,000 from the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs and its component, the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), to provide safe, stable housing and appropriate services to victims of human trafficking.
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 Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will offer 23 parcels, totaling approximately 27,387.86 acres, at the oil and gas lease sale during the week of September 28. The parcels are located in Juab, Sanpete, Sevier, Emery, Duchesne and Uintah counties on lands managed by the BLM’s Richfield, Vernal, Price and Fillmore Field Offices. At this time, the BLM will not offer parcels for sale located within Grand or San Juan counties managed by the Moab Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - BLM’s Rock Springs Field Office (RSFO) invites families, individuals, clubs and organizations to help pick up garbage and debris on public lands for this year’s National Public Lands Day (NPLD) project at the base of White Mountain (near Regan Avenue and Summit Drive) in Rock Springs.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: TAOS, N.M. -The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is announcing that it will allow for authorized fuelwood harvest at the Gorham Scout Camp near Cundiyo, N.M., to minimize further residual heavy fuels from previous thinning activities.
