News from August 2020
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - The National Park Service is assessing for any impacts due to Hurricane Isaias. Currently, very few damages to park facilities or resources have been found.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - Law enforcement authorities, including special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Los Angeles, 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: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, today announced that two agencies in Wisconsin received nearly $1 million 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: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Another Florida resident has been arrested in connection with an access device fraud and money laundering scheme, for stealing credit and debit card numbers of gas station customers across the country, including in Albany, Broome and Montgomery Counties in the Northern District of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 37-year-old resident of Pharr has been ordered to federal prison after admitting to being a felon in possession of six firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., today proposed a new bill to help states adopt mobile crisis response teams that can be dispatched when a person is experiencing a mental health or substance use disorder (SUD) crisis instead of immediately involving law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that John Buncich, age 74, of Crown Point, Indiana was re-sentenced before District Court Senior Judge James T. Moody. This re-sentencing flowed from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals June 5, 2019 decision upholding Buncich’s conviction on two wire fraud counts (Counts 4-5) and one bribery count (Count 6).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Hid Dead Body in a Dog Crate as Part of Scheme to Steal Benefits.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: East Beach Road Fire Status: Acres Burned: 84 acres. Cause: Human Caused. Engines: 2. Tenders: 0. Helicopters: 0 assigned but available locally. Hand Crews: 3. Heavy Equipment: 0. Fallers: 2. Containment: 65%. Total personnel: 84. Incident Summary: On Wednesday, July 29 at 4 pm a wildfire was discovered just...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: The educational campaign is centered on preventing illegal gun possession by young people.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Troy Livingston, 20, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Bread Springs, New Mexico, pled guilty in federal court in Albuquerque yesterday to second degree murder in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice Files Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Against Owner of Rental Properties in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 49-year-old resident of Weslaco has been ordered to federal prison after admitting to transporting illegal aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Court Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced Jesse Sloane, age 59, of Denham Springs, Louisiana, to serve 68 months in federal prison following his conviction for receipt of child pornography. Sloane will also be required to serve five years of supervised release and register as a convicted sex offender upon his release from prison.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes two civil penalties totaling $1.25 million against The Boeing Company for alleged violations in the program that allows the aircraft manufacturer to perform certain functions on behalf of the FAA. The FAA alleges that Boeing managers exerted undue pressure or interfered with the work of FAA designees at the company’s plant in South Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Daryl Sumeriski, 52, of Batavia, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Visitors to Bullfrog and Halls Crossing, Utah are advised that the Charles Hall Ferry will be closed for routine maintenance next Monday and Tuesday, August 10 and 11, 2020. In the future, routine monthly maintenance will result in the ferry making no runs the first Monday of every month. If the first...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: The four bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee wrote to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simons today urging them to work with their European counterparts...
