News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former second-in-command of the Boston-based Devon Street Kings Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty today to racketeering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to three years’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release on his conviction of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today that in order to maximize hydroelectric generation and assist in the stability of the Southwest’s regional electrical grid, it will continue to release 5-unit maximum release flows from Davis Dam through Wednesday, Aug. 19, between the hours of 5pm - 9pm MDT.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, Daniel Eric Cobble, age 45, was sentenced to a term of 20 years of federal imprisonment for mailing threatening letters to United States District Court Judges of the Middle District of Georgia announced Louis V. Franklin, Sr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Hood River, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison last week for his role in a conspiracy to traffic marijuana grown in Hood River and Portland to Florida, and launder the proceeds back to Oregon, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams. On Aug. 14, 2020, Cole William Griffiths, 32, was sentenced to two years in federal prison and five years’ supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Kansas City, MO - At a press conference in Kansas City, Missouri, today, Attorney General William P. Barr and U.S. Attorney John Anderson announced updates on Operation Legend.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.9 million grant to Butte-Silver Bow Consolidate Local Government, Butte, Montana, to construct a new rail line within the City-County of Butte-Silver Bow...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Wheeler County, Texas, 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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), announced the indictment and arrest today of YOEL ABRAHAM, HESHL ABRAHAM, ZISHE ABRAHAM, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that David Roy Jones, 55, formerly of Rochester, NY, was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS and PHILADELPHIA- United States Attorney for the District of Nevada Nicholas A. Trutanich and United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania William M. McSwain jointly announced that Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada (Catholic Charities) has agreed to pay $206,368.35 to resolve claims arising from its administration of community service grants funded through the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A complaint was unsealed today, charging two U.S. citizens with federal crimes related to Iran. Muzzamil Zaidi, 35, a U.S. citizen who resides in Qom, Iran, was charged with acting in the United States as an agent of the government of Iran without first notifying the Attorney General. Zaidi...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Saint Louis - At a press conference in Kansas City, MO, today, Attorney General William P. Barr and U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen announced updates on Operation Legend.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A federal grand jury has handed down two separate indictments charging a Charleston tax preparer and her mother in connection with a fraud scheme, according to United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: DETROIT - Federal and local law enforcement today announced the initial early results of Operation Legend, a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in cooperation with state and local law enforcement officials to fight violent crime.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Rock Springs, Wyo. - Due to dry conditions and high fire danger the BLM Wyoming High Desert District has implemented fire restrictions for all BLM administered lands within Sweetwater, Unita, Sublette, Teton, Fremont, Lincoln, Albany, Carbon, and Laramie Counties beginning today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Adrian L. Stargell, 39, a former Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Corrections Officer who worked as an Education Specialist at the FCI-Aliceville facility in Aliceville, Alabama, was sentenced today in federal court in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to 42 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Eben Roberts and U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that a Portland man has been charged with assaulting a U.S. Marshals Service deputy with a baseball bat during a riot at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in downtown Portland July 27, 2020.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have developed a checklist for human and animal food manufacturers to consider when continuing, resuming or reevaluating operations due to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging CARLOS CASTILLO-RODRIGUEZ, age 40, of Honduras, with illegal reentry of a removed alien.
