News from August 2020
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Boulder City, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation will reduce releases from Davis Dam on Thursday, Aug. 27, and Thursday, Sept. 10, as part of an experimental pilot program to decrease the local caddisfly population, a nuisance to local recreation, businesses and visitors to the area.
By State Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
Release: More information about Republic of the Congo is available on the Republic of the Congo page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: ATHENS, Ga. - Two defendants arrested during “Operation End Game," a multi-agency effort targeting and arresting adult perpetrators in the Athens-area seeking sex with children, were sentenced to prison this week for their crimes, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Gomez admitted selling approximately 4 pounds of methamphetamine from his home.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that David William Wilcox, age 48, of Muskogee, Oklahoma was sentenced to 33 months’ imprisonment, and 5 years of supervised release for Failure To Register As Sex Offender, in violation of Title 18...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: PINEDALE, Wyo. - Each year, the Bureau of Land Management celebrates National Public Lands Day by coordinating and participating in hundreds of outdoor clean up and improvement projects across the country. This year, the Pinedale Field Office invites families, individuals, clubs and organizations to...
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 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: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the unsealing of a federal indictment charging GAGE ANTHONY NORRIS, 25, with one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. NORRIS made his initial appearance yesterday before Magistrate Judge Becky R. Thorson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota. NORRIS was ordered to remain in custody pending a formal detention and arraignment hearing, which is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Davis was Indicted by Federal Grand Jury in January.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury has indicted a man on carjacking and firearm charges for allegedly stealing a vehicle at gunpoint in Chicago last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A federal jury convicted a Dover, North Carolina man yesterday on charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute fifty grams of more of methamphetamine and a quantity of cocaine, as well as, possession with the intent to distribute fifty grams or more of methamphetamine and a quantity of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Randall Farnham, 35, of Gallup, New Mexico, was sentenced on Aug. 18, 2020 in federal court in Albuquerque to 120 months in prison for assault resulting in serious bodily injury of a child under the age of 18 in Indian Country. Upon release from prison, Farnham also will be subject to five years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), the National Park Service (NPS), and Trout Unlimited (TU) have been working to restore Rio Grande cutthroat trout to its native waters since 2004. The area of focus for this fish restoration project is the Sand Creek drainage in the Great Sand Dunes National Preserve, including the Upper and Lower Sand Creek Lakes as well as the Sand Creek.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - U.S. Attorney Tim Garrison announced today that 288 arrests have been made by local and federal law enforcement officers in Operation LeGend.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Dakota James Hoffman, 28, of Bellevue, Idaho, was indicted on July 14, 2020, by a federal grand jury sitting in Boise for importation and distribution of fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 9 unsealed Indictments charging 9 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Former Bossier Parish School Board Member Mike Mosura, 44, and Brant R. Landry, 39, both of Bossier City, were sentenced by United States District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote for their participation in a conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids, Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - A Maxton man was sentenced yesterday to 192 months for unlawfully possessing two firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Three men have pleaded guilty this week for their roles in a heroin trafficking operation with ties to Mexico’s New Generation Cartel, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
