News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A former inmate of the Chesapeake City Jail was sentenced today to over two years in prison for conspiring to bribe a Chesapeake Sheriff’s Deputy to smuggle contraband, including cocaine and heroin, into the Chesapeake City Jail.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Washington Post . Published August 4, 2020. It should not be this hard to reach a bipartisan compromise when it comes to the $600-a-week federal unemployment supplement Congress approved earlier this year to help Americans who lost their jobs during the lockdown. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - An associate of drug traffickers, who assisted two others in kidnapping a 17-year-old boy from his mother’s Utah business in August 2018 while trying to collect a heroin-related drug debt, will spend 108 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Law Enforcement Recovered Two Guns from Pimp’s Base of Operations; Prostitution Enterprise Transported Victims Along Southeastern Seaboard, as Far South as Florida.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - The leader of a southern Oregon drug-trafficking organization responsible for distributing large quantities of methamphetamine and heroin in and around Klamath Falls, Oregon, was sentenced to federal prison today, announced U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Eben Roberts and Billy J. Williams, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Julie Ann Cutright, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced today to five years of probation for running a drug house, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Reaches Proposed Consent Decree to Resolve Hampton Roads Regional Jail Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Albuquerque, N.M. - Cornelius “Chip" Galloway, 37, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was sentenced yesterday to 17 years in prison on federal sex trafficking charges.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service is looking for several dedicated local volunteers to assist with visitor programming at Montezuma Well. If you have ever wanted to share your appreciation for Montezuma Well with visitors from near and far, this is your chance to do so! We will be offering training opportunities in August in anticipation of reopening Montezuma Well in September.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: While August usually represents the beginning of the peach, apple, and pear harvest in Capitol Reef National Park, there is a very limited crop of fruit available for picking this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Group trafficking counterfeit oxycodone pills tainted with deadly fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Cut Brake Line of Police Van.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with five counts of Interference with Commerce by Robbery, also known as the Hobbs Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO, Calif. - Today, Tyrone Cedric Duren, 50, of Bonsall, California was sentenced by Judge John A. Houston to 130 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. The court also ordered the forfeiture of Duren’s primary residence, a money judgment of $275,000, and restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. Duren previously pleaded guilty to 19 counts including charges of money laundering, making false statements, and tax evasion.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The public is invited to comment on the pending final bond release of the Gold Fever Mine, case file NVN-093122, by the Bureau of Land Management Bristlecone Field Office. A Plan of Operations for exploration was initially submitted and approved by the BLM in 2015. All of the placer mine...
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
Release: More information about Lithuania is available on the Lithuania Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Gay Vietzke has named Patrick Kenney as the new superintendent of Shenandoah National Park and Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Seattle)-Twelve members of a drug trafficking group distributing fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine throughout the Puget Sound region were arrested today following a year-long investigation and two grand jury indictments, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. The members of the conspiracies...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Misrepresented Moving Costs. A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Yakov Moroz, the president of Great Movers Inc. and its successor company New City Movers, and company employee Tal Ohana with wire fraud and wire fraud conspiracy by misrepresenting...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that an additional distribution of $ 22,394,690.03 has been issued to victim investors of the THOMAS PETTERS fraud scheme. These funds, forfeited to the United States through criminal and civil forfeiture proceedings prosecuted in the District of Minnesota, will be sent to approximately 364 victims worldwide.
