News from August 2020
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: Pecos, NM: Pecos National Historical Park will offer fall fishing permits for the Pecos River within the park boundaries. The 2020 fall fishing season will begin September 10th and end November 2nd. Please note that fall fishing hours will be from 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
By State Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement in response to the arrest of and violence against Belarusian protestors by military units and riot police after Alexander Lukashenka claimed to have won a landslide victory in Belarus’ presidential election over the weekend:
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Todd Goldbeck, 46, Middleton, Wisconsin was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to one year and one day in federal prison for committing perjury during a bankruptcy proceeding.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Nolan Donald, 21, of Lyndonville, NY, who was convicted of being an unlawful drug user in possession of firearms and ammunition, and possessing with intent to distribute, and distributing marijuana, was sentenced to serve three years home confinement by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Peyton McCray Roberts, 21, has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Weston man pleaded guilty today in connection with a scheme to defraud private high schools and international students of millions of dollars in tuition and other fees.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: Ads to Reach Audiences in 45 Languages Throughout the Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Former Buncombe County Commissioner Ellen Madans Frost, 65, of Black Mountain, N.C., appeared in federal court today and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit federal program fraud, for her involvement in a scheme to use Buncombe County funds to sponsor equestrian activities in North Carolina and Florida, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: FBI and Detroit Police Department Are Asking the Public to Help Identify Carjacking Subject.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the unsealing of a federal indictment charging BENJAMIN JOSEPH ROGGENBUCK, 38, with production, attempted production, distribution, and possession of child pornography. ROGGENBUCK made his initial appearance today before Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Cowan Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota. ROGGENBUCK was ordered to remain in custody pending further proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: Zachary Clark Disseminated ISIS Propaganda and Bomb-Making Instructions In an Effort to Incite Acts of Terrorism and Violence In New York City and Elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge John L. Badalamenti today sentenced Jose Alfredo Carbajal-Espinosa (34, Mexico) to 30 months in federal prison for illegal reentry into the United States after deportation. Carbajal-Espinosa had pleaded guilty on May 26, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman convicted of two counts of False Statements was sentenced on Aug. 3, 2020, by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: There’s a lot of attention on sharks in the media right now, with television programming focused on both entertaining and educating. Recently, Outer Cape beaches in Wellfleet and Truro have been periodically closed to swimming due to great white shark activity and sightings.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: Under the authority of: 36 CFR §242.10 and.19. 50 CFR §100.10 and.19. The Superintendent of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, under authority delegated by the Federal Subsistence Board, has announced the following changes to the federal subsistence hunting regulations for the harvest of moose...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - JUAN JABARI HOLLIS, 42, of Oklahoma City, has been indicted on drug and firearm related charges in addition to witness tampering, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeffrey Wehs, 24, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor, was sentenced to serve eight months home confinement and eight years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The defendant will also have to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: Jason A. Jones Named FBI General Counsel.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: Birmingham, AL - The U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the capture of a man who escaped from an Alabama jail July 31.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $1.2 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to three EDA Economic Development District organizations across Arizona to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
