News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Christopher Bryant, 46, of Ruidoso, New Mexico made an initial appearance in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico yesterday on charges of transportation of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, Charles Bennett Salter III, a 38-year-old resident of Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to 121 months in prison after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. The pronounced sentence...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA- On Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, a federal jury found Darvill Jimmy Joseph Bragg, age 25, of Davenport, guilty of the offense of felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Patrick Duran, 31, of Dulce, New Mexico, pleaded guilty on Aug. 19 in federal court in Albuquerque to assaulting an infant in Indian Country resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Operation LeGend. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man was charged in federal court today with the arson fire at Beyond Thee Four Walls Ministries this week. Christopher A. Durant, 38, was charged with arson in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Mo. Today’s complaint...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Haizhou Hu, a Chinese national conducting research at the University of Virginia, was arrested today and charged via criminal complaint with a pair of federal crimes just days after he attempted to board a flight to China. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and David W. Archey, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division announced the arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. -- Federal prosecutors have charged two Florida residents with bank fraud conspiracy for allegedly using synthetic identities to commit crimes, including defrauding banks and stealing over $3 million from Covid-19 relief programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Christopher William Bounds, 37, of Lind, Washington, was convicted by a federal jury in Coeur d'Alene on six federal drug and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. The jury found Bounds guilty of.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man has been sentenced in federal court for drug trafficking and illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Tennessee man charged with two counts of wire fraud will make his initial appearance before a New Jersey judge today, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - On Aug. 24, 2020, the Bureau of Land Management, Humboldt Field Office concluded a wild horse and burro helicopter gather. The gather was located on the Shawave Mountains Herd Management Area (HMA) located approximately 20 miles southeast of Lovelock, Nevada. Approximately 466 wild horses remain in the HMA.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Haizhou Hu, a Chinese national conducting research at the University of Virginia, was arrested today and charged via criminal complaint with a pair of federal crimes just days after he attempted to board a flight to China. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and David W. Archey, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division announced the arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI Poster in Navajo Offers Reward for Information in Amy Lynn Hanson Homicide.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $825,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the city of Nashua, New Hampshire, to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic in New Hampshire.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Last week, Mohamed Abdirahman Osman, aka, Mustaf Adan Arale, 29, of Mogadishu, Somalia, was sentenced to time served by District Court Judge Rosemary Marquez. Osman previously pleaded guilty to two felony counts of False Swearing in an Immigration Matter. Osman has been in custody for two years.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: *. The road between Mud Volcano and Fishing Bridge Junction will remain temporarily closed while park staff assess the impacts of a gasoline spill from an overturned tandem trailer on a commercial motor vehicle. *. This segment of road closed on Thursday, Aug. 27, shortly after the incident occurred.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - An ongoing federal criminal investigation into the failure of a Chicago bank has resulted in charges against four new defendants, all of whom worked for the bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of YURIDIA HERNANDEZ LINARES, 36, to six months in prison for conspiracy to commit visa fraud. LINARES was sentenced today by Chief Judge John R. Tunheim, in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After LINARES serves her prison sentence she will be removed from the United States to Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Joshua Matthew Spencer, 30, of Franklin County, Missouri, was sentenced today to 10 years’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to his involvement in conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Aug. 27, 2020, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against four Puerto Rico Police officers charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, conspiracy to steal and convert government property, and theft and conversion of government property, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The FBI was in charge of the investigation of the case.
