News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss announced today that the United States filed a civil complaint against Goodfish Enterprises, LLC and its principal, Christopher Lukacs, in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. The United States alleges that Goodfish and Lukacs...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - With millions of people waiting for their turn to get the new COVID vaccine, it is expected that scammers will use that opportunity to prey on those willing to pay for it.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: JACKSON, WYOMING - The Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Wildlife Health Laboratory confirmed on December 16 that an elk in Grand Teton National Park tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). The cow elk was harvested by a participant in the park’s elk reduction program and tissue samples were collected as part of the park’s mandatory testing program. This is the first elk to test positive for CWD in northwest Wyoming and in close proximity to elk feedgrounds.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management today released guidance that affirms its long-standing commitment to assure the humane handling and treatment of wild horses and burros on public lands and under the agency’s care off the range. This longstanding practice and policy makes permanent...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Devils Tower hosted 9,005 recreation visits in November 2020, up 110% from November 2019. This was the busiest November on record and the third month in row with record visitation at the Tower. Through November 2020, the park has recorded 420,330 recreation visits, down just 7% from 2019 at this time.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge John A. Ross accepted a plea, today, from Lemartrell Smith. The 26-year-old St. Louis, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to two counts of being in possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, one count of being in possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crime and one count being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Boulder City, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation today released a report intended to bring partners, stakeholders and the public to a common understanding of the effectiveness of the 2007 Colorado River Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages and Coordinated Operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead. The technical report documents conservation efforts and operations on the Colorado River since 2007 and provides an essential reference to inform future operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - United States Senior District Court Judge Thomas B. Russell sentenced a Clarksville, Tennessee convicted felon to 18 years imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release for the defendant’s role in the Feb. 18, 2019, Hopkinsville, Kentucky carjacking, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - Two women arrested in possession of more than 23 kilos of methamphetamine during a traffic stop on I-75 have pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and are both facing a maximum twenty years in prison for their crimes, said Peter D. Leary, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that yesterday, Marvarlus Cortel Snead, 34, of Four Oaks, North Carolina, was convicted in federal court following a four-day trial before United States District Judge James C. Dever. The jury found Snead guilty on all three counts: sex trafficking of a minor, production of child pornography, and one count of using facilities in interstate commerce to operate a prostitution enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: International Trio Indicted in Austin for Illegal Exports to Russia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Aaron Moses (31, Odessa) to 10 years and 6 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and for possession of cocaine and heroin with intent to distribute. Moses had pleaded guilty on Sept. 22, 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) today introduced a continuing resolution to extend federal government funding through Sunday and allow coronavirus relief negotiations to conclude.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.7 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, to modernize and retool the University’s Technology Development...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Austin, TX - The U.S. Marshals-led Lone Star Fugitive Task Force apprehended a fugitive Thursday afternoon in the 100 block of Lone Star Circle in Bastrop, who was sought on over 100 counts of rape of a child by an adult and incest from an incident in North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Jeremiah Butler-Jackson (20, Tampa) to four years and two months in federal prison for possessing a loaded gun as a convicted felon. Butler-Jackson had pleaded guilty on October 8, 2020.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) issued the following statement in response to the news that all freight, Amtrak, intercity, and commuter railroads will meet the Dec. 31, 2020 deadline for implementing positive train control (PTC):
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Christopher Steven Ledbetter, 29, of McLoud, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to serve 57 months in federal prison for unlawful possession of a fully automatic machinegun, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return by a grand jury of an indictment charging Vershaun Lamar Puzie (32, Jacksonville) with two counts of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. If convicted, Puzie faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Xavier Demetrius James, 35, of Jackson, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 252 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute over 50 grams of actual methamphetamine. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
