News from August 2020
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: East Beach Road Fire Status: Acres Burned: 84 acres. Cause: Human Caused. Engines: 3. Tenders: 0. Helicopters: 0 assigned but available locally. Hand Crews: 5. Heavy Equipment: 0. Fallers: 2. Containment: 65%. Total personnel: 175 (with anticipated reduction in crews throughout the day). Incident Summary: On...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Three non-profit organizations each to receive about $500,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Pasqual Francis Ortega, 35, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, New Mexico, was sentenced in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico, yesterday in a case involving sexual abuse of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Marshals in Central California have arrested a Michigan man convicted of sexually assaulting two young girls who has been on the run for more than 20 years and was profiled in March in an episode of the TV series “in Pursuit with John Walsh."
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced on Aug. 3, 2020 that Rickey Austin of Milwaukee, after having served approximately 18 months since his arrest, was sentenced by the Honorable Judge Lynn Adelman to an additional 246 months’ imprisonment for armed robberies and unlawful possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today, eight individuals were indicted on federal drug charges, including Possession with Intent to Distribute Controlled Substances. The Indictments were unsealed in federal court today.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) crews resumed waste disposal shipments in late July as part of cleanup efforts after the site moved into the second phase of its operations plan in response to COVID-19.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The National Park Service has developed a vehicle reservation system to reduce severe traffic and parking congestion so visitors can plan ahead and have a more enjoyable visit to Acadia National Park. As a pilot to prepare for the 2021 season, reservations will be required for vehicles to enter the Sand Beach Entrance and Cadillac Summit Road from October 1 to 18, 2020. Vehicle reservations are available for purchase only online at Recreation.gov.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Vladimir Volgaev (69, Sarasota) to two years and nine months in federal prison for theft of government property and smuggling goods from the United States, in violation of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. The court also ordered Volgaev to forfeit $6,835, which is traceable to proceeds of the offense.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Observing COVID-19 safety protocols, workers recently started construction of concrete pads that will hold a waste pretreatment system vital to the Hanford Site cleanup mission.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 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 Billy J. Williams, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A federal grand jury has returned a two-count indictment against a 20-year-old Haltom City man for conspiring with others to import approximately 438.99 grams of meth from Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Vladimir Volgaev (69, Sarasota) to two years and nine months in federal prison for theft of government property and smuggling goods from the United States, in violation of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. The court also ordered Volgaev to forfeit $6,835, which is traceable to proceeds of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on July 31, 2020, Kyle Bower, age 31, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was charged with smuggling contraband into Dauphin County Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Sylmar man was charged today in a federal grand jury indictment alleging that he deliberately set Hollywood’s Pizzeria Mozza restaurant on fire during the civil disturbances that struck the city in late May.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Four more people have been arrested in Florida and Pennsylvania 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 4, 2020
News Release: Co-conspirators Sold Hundreds of Thousands of Opioid Pills on Multiple Darknet Markets Worth Millions of Dollars in Bitcoin.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., this week filed an amicus brief in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals with 23 Senate Democrats to support litigation that would overturn a Trump administration rule that would threaten access to health care for millions of Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on July 31, 2020, Kamilah Lewis, age 32, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information with smuggling contraband into Dauphin County Prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Natural Resources Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement in anticipation of H.R. 1957, The Great American Outdoors Act becoming law today...
