News from August 2020
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated six Wyoming counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Big Horn, Hot Springs, Johnson, Natrona, Sheridan and Washakie counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Savannah man will spend 25 years in federal prison after sentencing for the violent robberies of two convenience stores, an armed home invasion, and car theft in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Raleigh County man was sentenced to federal prison for a sex crime involving a minor, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Gary Wayne Lilly, 40, of Josephine, was sentenced to 46 months in prison for traveling in interstate commerce with the intent to engage in illicit sexual activity with a minor. Upon release from prison, Lilly will serve a term of supervised release of 10 years and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) issued the following statement on the Democrats’ latest coronavirus press release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jesus Gonzalez, 29, of Bakersfield, California was sentenced to 188 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841, United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Raleigh County man was sentenced to federal prison for a sex crime involving a minor, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Gary Wayne Lilly, 40, of Josephine, was sentenced to 46 months in prison for traveling in interstate commerce with the intent to engage in illicit sexual activity with a minor. Upon release from prison, Lilly will serve a term of supervised release of 10 years and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Luis Eduardo Martinez-Torres, 23, from Mexico, pled guilty today to aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute heroin and methamphetamine.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 14 Utah counites as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Beaver, Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Garfield, Grand, Iron, Morgan, Piute, Sevier, Uintah, Washington, Wayne and Weber counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Honeywell has sentenced Patrice Jackson (37, Bradenton) to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Jackson, one of four members of a fraudulent opiate prescription drug conspiracy, pleaded guilty on Oct. 23, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Maysville, Ky., man, William Scott Smith, 39, pleaded guilty on Monday, before U.S. District Judge David Bunning, to attempted enticement of a minor.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Join us for the seventh annual (and first virtual) Run in the Redwoods 5k Fun Run/Walk. Participation is easy! Register online then run or walk a 5k wherever you live anytime between Oct. 3-10, 2020. You can run, walk, treadmill, hop, skip, even paddle your 5k. Ask your family and friends to join you in supporting your parks and public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Aug. 27, 2020, David Piaquadio, age 63, of Galeton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to 20 years’ imprisonment following his conviction for conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone, Fentanyl and Heroin, distribution of Oxycodone and Fentanyl, and attempted distribution of Oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Savannah man will spend 25 years in federal prison after sentencing for the violent robberies of two convenience stores, an armed home invasion, and car theft in 2018.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Modoc County, California, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - On Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020 the areas around historic Fort Pulaski, including the main parking lot, restrooms, and visitor contact station will be closed to visitors. The delivery of construction materials by crane and heavy machinery, for ongoing preservation projects, necessitate the closure.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Aberdeen, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Felon in Possession of a Firearm and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Yang Ban Corporation, a company established in the British Virgin Islands in 2014 that operated in South East Asia pleaded guilty today to conspiring to launder monetary instruments in connection with evading sanctions on North Korea and deceiving correspondent banks into processing U.S. dollar transactions. The company will pay a financial penalty totaling $673,714.04.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Patricia Ann Mahoney, of Elkins, West Virginia, is facing drug and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced Charlie Lee Wright, Jr. (52, Summerfield) to 17 years and 7 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. A federal jury had found Wright guilty in December 2019. Because of Wright’s extensive ...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Due to technical difficulties during the previously scheduled public meeting for the B.F. Sisk Dam Raise and Reservoir Expansion Project Draft Environmental Impact Report/Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, the Bureau of Reclamation and San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority have rescheduled the public meeting to solicit comments on topics addressed in the Draft EIR/SEIS for...
