News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Robert J. Bell, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge, Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney Kirsch announced Juan M. Hernandez, age 40, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty following his plea of guilty to possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - The former bookkeeper for a Valdosta, Georgia physical therapy business was ordered to pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars to her former employer and was sentenced to 41 months in prison for bank fraud, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of OMAR KASHAKA TAYLOR a/k/a “Shaka," 46, to 400 months in prison for sex trafficking two victims, including one minor victim. TAYLOR, who was convicted on all counts by a federal jury on February 5, 2019, was sentenced today before Senior Judge Donovan W. Frank in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Jimmy L. Faulkner, Jr., age 36, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty following his plea of guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) released the following statements after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) fulfilled their request for a copy of a 2019...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Chairman Danny K. Davis (D-IL) and Subcommittee Ranking Member Jackie Walorski (R-IN) introduced the Supporting Foster Youth and Families through the Pandemic Act to provide additional support for older foster youth, grandparents & other kinship families, home visiting for at-risk pregnant and parenting families, foster care prevention services, and other child welfare services.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $16 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former New Jersey broker was sentenced today in federal court in Newark for defrauding his clients by engaging in a multi-year “cherry-picking" scheme that netted nearly $800,000. The defendant was originally indicted in the District of Massachusetts before the case was transferred to New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Geraldo De La Cruz Cabral Pena, 45, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced on Thursday to 108 months in federal prison and a $30,000 fine for conspiring to distribute heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Savannah man has been indicted for pointing a powerful laser at a helicopter being used in a police search.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Five members of a Peninsula-based narcotics operation were sentenced over the last two days to a combined 51 years in prison and ordered to forfeit over $2,000,000 for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, large amounts of heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and cocaine base in Hampton Roads.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced a new annual survey of farmers, ranchers and private forestland owners. The survey will help USDA understand what it is doing well and where improvements are needed, specifically at the Farm Service Agency (FSA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Risk Management Agency (RMA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: (Tacoma) - A Port Townsend, Washington, man who left a heroin overdose victim in a car outside a hospital emergency room pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and illegal firearms possession charges today, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. ADAM MICHAEL KELLY, 38, pleaded guilty to possession of controlled...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that local and federal law enforcement officers have made 32 arrests and recovered 27 firearms since the mid-July commencement of Operation Legend in Milwaukee. Those arrested include individuals alleged to have committed firearms-related offenses as well as fugitives wanted for violent crimes, including homicide, armed robbery, and recklessly endangering safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Geraldo De La Cruz Cabral Pena, 45, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced on Thursday to 108 months in federal prison and a $30,000 fine for conspiring to distribute heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that REDIS MCGARY, age 53, a resident of Tangipahoa Parish, was charged in a two-count Bill of Information with possessing with the intent to distribute heroin and with being a convicted felon in possession of firearms.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $3.6 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to nine EDA Economic Development District organizations across Indiana to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Superintendent Brian Carlstrom has announced that Stacey Ann Ferguson has been selected to serve as the new Administrative and Business Services Officer at Cape Cod National Seashore.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management has approved the development of up to 4,250 oil and gas wells for the Moneta Divide Project on over 300,000 acres of mostly public lands managed by the Lander and Casper field offices. Today’s decision will facilitate yet another opportunity for responsible domestic energy production in Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VICTOR PERDOMO, also known as “Domi," 35, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin and fentanyl.
