News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a felony information charging MARC BELL GONZALES, 29, with one count of conspiracy to commit arson. GONZALES will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-10), Immigration and Citizenship Subcommittee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-19), Immigration and Citizenship Subcommittee Ranking Member Ken Buck (R-CO-4), Representative Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE-1), Representative Emanuel ...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Mount Rainier National Park announces our new Spanish website as part of our continuing effort to reach all audiences, specifically the Spanish-speaking community. The site provides visitors with information to help plan a successful visit to Mount Rainier.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Michael Baez, 40, of Pelham, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for distributing cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Kenyatta Banks, Jr., of Canal Winchester, Ohio has admitted to his role in a drug conspiracy that spanned several states, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Defendant is the 56th person to be charged in connection with the nationwide college admissions investigation and prosecution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUAN CARLOS GONZALEZ-RUBIO, 41, a citizen of Mexico last residing in Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden to 48 months of imprisonment for trafficking narcotics into Connecticut.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Raison Holt, 25, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of high speed flight from a border checkpoint, was sentenced to serve 20 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Laura Arlene Barnett, 53, of Allegan, Michigan, pleaded guilty to the interstate transportation of stolen property, U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. The sentencing before Chief U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker is scheduled for Nov. 30, 2020. At sentencing...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy Elliot Wheeler, of Petersburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 60 months of incarceration for a firearms violation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced the unsealing of two indictments charging a total of six men with narcotics trafficking offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: On Aug. 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation establishing the National Park Service (NPS). At that time, women across the country were fighting for their right to vote throughout the United States, a right that was recognized when the 19th Amendment became part of the US Constitution on Aug. 26, 1920, the day after the fourth birthday of the NPS.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding $7.5 million in research, education, and training grants to universities that comprise the agency’s Air Transportation Center of Excellence (COE) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), also known as the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced that an information charge was filed against Edgar Ramirez, age 22, of Youngstown, Ohio. Ramirez is charged with three counts of interference with commerce by means of robbery and three counts of using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: This week, the U.S. Census Bureau began to release daily 2020 Census housing unit completion rates including the 2020 Census self-response rate and Nonresponse Followup completion rate. Over 73% of housing units have been accounted for in the 2020 Census as of today, with 9.7% counted by census takers and other field data collection operations, and 64.2% of housing units responding online, by phone or by mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - As part the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California’s strategy to reduce violent crime by focusing on firearms prosecutions, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced that a federal grand jury returned indictments in the following cases involving illegal firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Vincent Gibson, 39, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of bank robbery, entering a bank with intent to commit a larceny, bank larceny, and interstate communication of a threat to injure a person, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $5,000 to M&T Bank.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: AUBURN, Calif. -- The Bureau of Reclamation today signed a Record of Decision that will guide the future development and management of Auburn State Recreation Area and Auburn Project Lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh has returned two separate, but related, Indictments following a five-month Title III wiretap investigation into drug trafficking and violence in and around Wilkinsburg and the East Hills neighborhood in Pittsburgh, United States Attorney Scott Brady announced today. The Indictments charge 26 residents of western Pennsylvania with narcotics trafficking and firearms violations.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $2.6 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to seven EDA Economic Development District organizations across Utah to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
