News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that an Aroostook County man was sentenced today in federal court in Bangor for conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - The final defendant involved in a string of violent convenience store robberies in Albany in 2016, shooting and injuring two clerks, was sentenced to prison for his crime today, announced Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A gang member with an extensive criminal history has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for illegal firearms possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Phillip R. Andrews, 81, of Gilford, was sentenced on Tuesday to 84 months in federal prison for transportation of child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Copey Ferlin Henderson, 27, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque today to sexually abusing a child in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man previously convicted of three felonies admitted today to illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition in connection with a shooting, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 24-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for violent crime violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service is pleased to announce that the 2021 Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) application process for Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Wright Brothers National Memorial is now open.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: Birmingham, Ala. - A federal jury today convicted a Talladega man on drug charges, announced United States Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Mikey French.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement urging President Trump to follow through with his promise to extend the pause on student loan payments. In August, President Trump used...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Nicholas Pilchak (619) 546-9709.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Three members of a Gardena street gang that operates in several states under the control of the Mexican Mafia, have been charged in federal court with violent crime in aid of racketeering for allegedly participating in a shooting that resulted in the death of a 29-year-old man who was gunned down in front of his home.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. sentenced Shawn Tepen to 90 months in prison today. The 32-year-old Cedar Hill, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Gateway Arch National Park announces National Park Service veteran Tarona Armstrong as its new Deputy Superintendent. Armstrong comes to St. Louis from President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site in Hope, Arkansas, where she has served as Superintendent since 2014. She will start her new position later this month.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that a joint team of more than 85 federal, state, and local law enforcement officers arrested 18 individuals who have been charged in federal court for their roles in an interstate drug trafficking organization...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Ivan Chernev, age 51, and a citizen of Canada and Bulgaria, was sentenced today to 68 months in prison for a fraudulent scheme that targeted small businesses, medical providers and schools across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Took More Than $1.4M in County Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday morning charges six individuals with conspiracy to steal money from customers at various gas stations in Utah and elsewhere. The indictment alleges the defendants and their co-conspirators executed the conspiracy by using Bluetooth enabled skimming equipment that they installed on the motherboard of the internal computer that controls the gas pumps. Victims of the alleged scheme lost at least $200,000.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service today announced $2,208,110 in grants from the American Battlefield Protection Program to protect 169.03 acres of America’s Civil War battlefields. The grants will be used to acquire portions of Mississippi’s Brices Cross Roads, Raymond, and Vicksburg battlefields, as well as tracts at Bentonville Battlefield in North Carolina and at Virginia’s Petersburg and Williamsburg battlefields.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court on convictions of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
