News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Lies Resulted in the Bank Losing Over $320,000, which the Former Vice President Must Pay Back as Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Donald Ray Lockard, age 66 of Douglasville, GA, made his initial appearance in federal court today in Del Rio on charges in connection with the alleged scheme to steal over $2 million from the San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated School District (SFDRCISD), announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Field Office.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it has requested data from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan on their COVID-19 response in public nursing homes. DOJ is considering an investigation under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Concord - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Sergio Martinez, 30, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison for leading a continuing criminal enterprise and participating in a money laundering conspiracy based upon his role in operating a Lawrence-based fentanyl trafficking organization. Additionally, Martinez was ordered to forfeit $2,000,000 in cash, as well as three houses in Lawrence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced that Jamien Markee Marshall, 31, of Charlotte, was ordered to serve seven years in prison and three years of supervised release for illegally possessing a firearm. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. handed down the sentence today, which included sentencing guideline enhancements for Marshall’s two prior armed robbery convictions and the obliterated serial number on the firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Tupelo, MS - Travelers are advised to avoid using the Natchez Trace Parkway as Hurricane Laura travels up the Mississippi River and into the Tennessee River Valley. Forecasted conditions for the next 24 to 48 hours include the possibility of heavy rains and strong winds, which may result in falling trees...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it has requested data from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan on their COVID-19 response in public nursing homes. DOJ is considering an investigation under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation will begin reducing flows below Deadwood Dam from approximately 1,000 cubic feet per second to the winter flow of 50 cfs starting the evening of Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020. This will cause flows in the South Fork Payette River to decrease from approximately 1,500 cfs to approximately 500 cfs.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: YAKIMA, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation will begin its annual “flip-flop" operation in early September to aid in successful spawning and incubation of Chinook salmon eggs and to improve winter reservoir storage in the Yakima basin. This means flows out of Keechelus and Cle Elum reservoirs in the upper...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Gary Garland, Shannon Garland, Johnnie Wells, Michael Skelton, and Duwone Allen, all of Anderson, were arrested on a multi-count federal indictment charging violations of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor and production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that 74 people are facing federal charges for crimes committed adjacent to or under the guise of peaceful demonstrations in Portland since at least May 29, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Dupree, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conversion of Mortgaged or Pledged Property.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm was sentenced on Aug. 25, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Lawrence L. Piersol.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - On the morning of August, 25, 2020, more than 70 law enforcement officers from the Drug Enforcement Administration Grand Junction Resident Office and law enforcement partners from 12 federal, state and local agencies conducted a marijuana eradication operation in the area north of Rifle, Colo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Defendants Agree to Pay $142,653 in Clean-up Costs and Accept Responsibility in Consent Decree.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Robert Vincent Allen, a resident of Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty to the attempted destruction of an aircraft. Allen appeared remotely, and is free on bond. The Denver Division of the FBI joined in today’s announcement.
By State Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
Release: More information about Djibouti is available on the Djibouti Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today to unlawful re-entry of a deported alien. After reentering the United States within months of being removed, the defendant was charged with a heroin-related offense and was in possession of a phone that had been used in a drug transaction with an individual who died of an apparent overdose.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Mercer County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a large drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed more than one kilogram of heroin in Trenton and the surrounding area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: For Firearm and Drug Offenses. FORT WAYNE - Multiple individuals were charged with drug and firearms offenses by way of a 19 count Indictment, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. According to the Indictment, Frederick Morgan II, Frederick Morgan Sr., Monica Duvalon, Larry Lamb, Sarah Waltz, Eddie Knox...
