News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - United States Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger today announced that two victim services providers in the Commonwealth of Virginia received $866,676 from the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs and its component, the Office for Victims of Crime, to provide safe, stable housing and appropriate services to victims of human trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that six defendants have been charged by complaint and two other defendants indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a transnational drug trafficking ring that stretched from Mexico to Buffalo.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 192,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Vernal, Utah - The BLM Vernal Field Office has issued a temporary emergency closure for the “B" portion of the Green River from the Little Hole boat ramp to the Indian Crossing boat ramp. The temporary closure is necessary for public safety and resource protection due to the Richard Mountain Fire.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: POCATELLO - Carlos Brewer, 42, of Pocatello, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 235 months in federal prison for receiving sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Eben Roberts and U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Jose Ramon Hernandez-Reyes, 33, an illegal alien from Mexico, was sentenced yesterday to 18 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for illegal transportation or moving of an alien, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Gilbert Trill, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans. Hernandez-Reyes pled guilty to the federal felony offense before Judge Guirola on June 4, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. -- South Florida federal prosecutors have charged a former Economics Minister of Guatemala, Asisclo Valladares Urruela, 44, with helping to launder close to $10 million of illegal drug proceeds and other ill-gotten money. Prosecutors allege that during a four-year conspiracy, Valladares Urruela enabled the illegal drug trade by creating a demand for untraceable cash, cash that Valladares Urruela used to bribe corrupt Guatemalan politicians.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Joseph William Howell, Jr., of Beverly, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 120 months incarceration for methamphetamine and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Fraudulently induced individuals and companies to invest in sham businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California- Law enforcement authorities this morning arrested four defendants charged in two federal grand jury indictments alleging a narcotics trafficking ring that sold illegal opioid prescriptions for cash through a series of sham medical clinics.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Fired a “Warning Shot" to Get Another Person Who was Attempting to Buy a TV With Counterfeit Money to Leave his Property.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Nicholas Tarbell, age 32, of Syracuse, was sentenced today to serve 63 months in prison for conspiring to distribute marijuana and money laundering, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Kevin Kelly, Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and Gregory S. Oakes, Oswego County District Attorney.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man was sentenced today for sending a series of violent and threatening e‑mails to a Massachusetts professor and a university.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, Vito Difalco, also known as “Victor" and “The Mask," an inducted member of the Colombo organized crime family, was sentenced by United States District Judge William F. Kuntz, II, to 37 months’ imprisonment for racketeering.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Malikai Willis, 24, of Hamilton, Ohio, with sexually trafficking and exploiting a child in an indictment returned here.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - United States Attorney Mike Hurst, Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Matt Albence, and ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New Orleans Acting Special Agent in Charge Gilbert Trill will hold a press conference on Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. at...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Email: 2020.pinehollow@firenet.gov. Summary: The Pine Hollow Fire is nearing containment despite continued hot, dry, and windy conditions. Crews report 89% containment of this fire, with a goal to reach 100% after today or tomorrow’s shift. The...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: FARMINGTON, N.M. - In addition to the five virtual public meetings that took place in May 2020, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) will host four virtual open houses for the recently published Draft Farmington Mancos-Gallup Resource Management Plan Amendment and...
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representatives Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, today issued the following statement on the resignation of State Department Acting Inspector General (IG) Stephen Akard...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Eleven members or close associates of the MS-13 gang were arrested this week relating to the sexual exploitation and physical abuse of a minor in northern Virginia and Maryland.
