News from August 2020
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign helps educate GA pilots about safety, including loss of control, power plant failure and controlled flight into terrain.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: 23 crime guns recovered from Indianapolis crime scenes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Princess Terry, 27, has pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud and aggravated identity theft. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 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 25, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that SEPEHR SARSHAR was charged this morning with securities fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Hashim Hussein, a citizen of Kuwait, has admitted to selling cocaine near West Virginia University, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: (Washington - Aug. 25, 2020) - Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced up to an additional $1 billion for the Farmers to Families Food Box Program. The additional funding allows the program to continue critical support to farmers, distributors, and American families in need. The Farmers to Families Food Box program has provided over 70 million boxes to hungry Americans across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: Martinsburg, WV - Members of the U.S. Marshals Mountain State Fugitive Task Force and the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office arrested an Indiana man wanted by the Jay County Sheriff’s Office for homicide.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm today sentenced William Thompson, age 27, of Silver Spring, Maryland, to seven years, and one day in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for interference with interstate commerce by robbery, and using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. Judge Grimm also ordered Thompson to pay restitution of $498.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: Albuquerque, N.M. - Eduardo “Lalo" Aguilar, 31, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, made an initial appearance on gun charges in federal court on August 20 before a detention hearing yesterday, at which the Court concluded that the he must be detained pending trial. Aguilar has been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: FBI Announces Two Sex Trafficking Arrests.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Daniel Nunez, 31, of Union City, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 248 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky.- Jordan Ryan Turner, 32, of Middlesboro, Kentucky, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison on Tuesday, by United States District Judge Claria Horn Boom, after pleading guilty to using the internet to attempt to persuade, induce, or entice a minor to engage in sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of Receipt and Attempted Receipt of Material Depicting the Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Richard J. Potter, Jr., age 55, of Springport, New York, was arrested today on charges of receipt of child pornography and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: Sebring, FL - The United States Marshals Service and the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office, in conjunction with the Highlands Probation Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, concluded Operation Disconnect, which led to 37 arrests across Highlands County, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky.- A McDowell, Ky., man, Denver D. Tackett, DMD, 66, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, before U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove, to health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: Albuquerque, N.M. - Eduardo “Lalo" Aguilar, 31, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, made an initial appearance on gun charges in federal court on August 20 before a detention hearing yesterday, at which the Court concluded that the he must be detained pending trial. Aguilar has been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By State Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representatives Eliot L. Engel and Michael T. McCaul, Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, along with Senators Jim Risch and Bob Menendez, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the third anniversary of the Burmese military’s violent crackdown on Rohingya...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Workers at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have completed risk reduction and cleanup activities in a building containing residual plutonium (Pu)-238 oxide, once used to power deep space missions.
