News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - An inmate at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, has been convicted by a federal jury of assaulting another inmate at the facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - An inmate at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, has been convicted by a federal jury of assaulting another inmate at the facility.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Just days after House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) urged the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to temporarily halt sending notices for unpaid taxes until the agency processes the mail backlog caused by COVID-19, the IRS heeded the Chairman’s call and announced...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Strong City, KS: On Aug. 26, 2020 at approximately 8 p.m., Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve will join other landmarks around the United States in celebration of 100 years of the 19th Amendment and women’s constitutional right to vote. The campaign, named Forward Into Light in honor of the historic women’s suffrage slogan, is asking national and historic landmarks and buildings to light up the night with gold, purple and white, the colors of the suffrage movement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: A Dallas mystic shop owner has pleaded guilty to trafficking dried hummingbird carcasses in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging MIKLOS TERREL DATES, JR., 25, with one count of possession of a firearm by a felon. DATES, who was taken into custody earlier today, made his initial appearance before Magistrate Judge Becky R. Thorson in U.S. District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - William Gonzalez, age 56, of the Bronx, New York, pled guilty on Tuesday to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN - Following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and a Puerto Rico Crimes Against Children Task Force (PRCACTF) investigation, a federal grand jury returned Aug.19, an indictment against Francisco Xavier Ortiz-Colón charging him with 12 counts of child exploitation. HSI special agents arrested Ortiz-Colon the same day at his place of residence without incident.
By State Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Rachna Sachdeva Korhonen is the Executive Director for the Joint Executive Office for NEA and SCA. She was previously the Consul General at the Consulate General of the United States in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. She has served in Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and India as well as working for the...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
Release: MIAMI - Security screening at Miami International Airport in the post-COVID-19 era just got easier, thanks to the installation of seven state-of-the-art computed tomography (CT) scanners at six Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints. Passengers traveling through a lane with a CT scanner will now be permitted to leave laptops and other electronic devices in their carry-on bags.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 59-year-old Bryan resident has been ordered to federal prison after he admitted to wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A driver who was stopped on a Kansas highway with 23 pounds of methamphetamine in his car was sentenced today to 164 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Brandon Cooley, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine, was sentenced to serve 33 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: ALAMOGORDO, NM - White Sands National Park proposes changes to current fees for enhanced visitor services including, the Full Moon and Lake Lucero ranger-guided hikes, backcountry tent camping, and group use area reservations, as part of its commitment to improving the visitor experience.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Texas man was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in connection with possession of 30 kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Maurice Neal, 31, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to 25 years in prison and lifetime supervised release by United States District Court Judge Timothy J. Savage for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: On Wednesday, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an eight-count indictment against legislator Nelson Del Valle Colon (Del Valle Colon), a member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, as well as two of his employees, Nickolle Santos-Estrada (Santos) and her mother Mildred Estrada-Rojas (Estrada), for their alleged participation in a multi-year theft, bribery, and kickback conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it reached an agreement with the Gates Chili Central School District in Rochester, New York, to resolve the department’s lawsuit alleging disability discrimination in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: A Huger, South Carolina couple pleaded guilty today in South Carolina before the U.S. District Judge Brucie H. Hendricks in the District of South Carolina to charges stemming from their conspiracy to obtain a U.S. passport by falsely claiming they were the biological parents of a baby born in the Philippines and by using false birth records to apply for a U.S. passport for the baby.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Authorities have taken nine people into custody on charges involving the distribution of meth, cocaine and/or oxycodone and hydrocodone, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick for the Southern District of Texas.
