News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Both Properties Worth a Combined $70 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Frank L. Morrison, of Braddock Hills, Pennsylvania, was indicted this week on a bank robbery charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man with five prior felony convictions today admitted illegally selling multiple firearms, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
Release: BURBANK, Calif. - Officers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Hollywood Burbank Airport detected a loaded firearm Wednesday morning around 6 a.m. during the routine X-ray screening of carry-on luggage at the security checkpoint.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - A 51-year-old unlawfully present Republic of China (Taiwan) national in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Krome Service Processing Center in Florida died Wednesday afternoon at the Kendall Regional Medical Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Rafael Vega-Rodriguez, 38, of Reading, PA was charged by Indictment with three counts of attempted murder of a federal law enforcement officer, three counts of assault on a federal officer with a deadly weapon, and related firearms charges stemming from an incident earlier this year when he allegedly opened fire on three FBI Special Agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - Federal prosecutors have filed charges in the Southern District of Florida against three local residents for their alleged participation in a scheme to file fraudulent loan applications seeking more than $24 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is launching an investigation into reported delays at the U.S. Postal Service that are preventing Americans from receiving critical mail on-time, including prescription drugs, business...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: FBI Louisville Now Leads Search for Crystal Rogers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Charlotte man was sentenced today to 240 months in prison for Conspiracy to Participate in a Pattern of Racketeering (RICO conspiracy).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Operation LeGend. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man has been charged in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to commit at least seven armed robberies of local businesses, primarily fast food restaurants. Chase M. Murphy, 19, was charged in a three-count criminal complaint filed under...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Somerset, Kentucky, man, Michael Davidson, 33, was sentenced in federal court on Thursday, to 85 months in prison, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Wier, for conspiracy to distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and 40 grams or more of fentanyl.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
Release: DETROIT - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers discovered a firearm and ammunition in a passenger’s belongings at a security checkpoint in Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) Tuesday.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, asked Acting Inspector General Christi Grimm (Acting IG) to launch an investigation into the recent $646 million ventilator procurement contract negotiated between Philips Respironics (Philips) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure that taxpayer money is spent responsibly and is properly directed to aiding our pandemic response.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Jacob Komenda, 24, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, five grams or more of methamphetamine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Email: 2020.pinehollow@firenet.gov. Summary: Great Basin Incident Management Team 6 will hand over management of the Pine Hollow Fire to the local Type 3 team led by Brandon Davis at 6 am Friday, August 7, 2020. Crews report 98% containment of...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has proposed raising the Shasta Dam and is seeking public input on the Shasta Lake Water Resources Investigation Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. By raising the 600-foot-tall Shasta Dam by 3% or an additional 18.5 feet, the proposed project would increase water storage capacity in the Shasta Lake reservoir by 634,000 acre-feet or more than 200 billion gallons-enough water to support two million people a year.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $8.2 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 that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Arkansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today, Shepard T. Hoehn, 50, of Lawrence, Ind., has been charged by criminal complaint in federal district court with one count of violating 42 U.S.C. § 3631 for making threats to intimidate and interfere with his African-American neighbor...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Defendant Possessed Over 70,000 Sexually Explicit Images and Videos of Minors.
