News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Defendant sold lanyard that claimed to protect the wearer from viruses and bacteria.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - A Bahamian man in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) passed away Dec. 17 at the Adams County Detention Center in Natchez, Mississippi. The preliminary cause of death is from a heart attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Marshall-Limoges seized a 14-year-old child and attempted to drive away with her.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Four Men Indicted for Hate Crimes and False Statements After Racially Motivated Assault in Lynnwood, Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Nevada man was arrested on Dec. 15, 2020, for allegedly murdering an indigenous woman on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse of the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Seattle - Four men from across the Pacific Northwest were indicted this week for federal hate crimes and making false statements in connection with a December 8, 2018, racially-motivated assault, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Eric Dreiband. JASON...
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: Promontory Summit, UT - Golden Spike National Historical Park invites the public to join us December 29th, 30th, and 31st for daily steam locomotive demonstrations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND- The United States Attorney’s Office announced that Gary T. Bell is now the Acting United States Attorney.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC -Cape Lookout National Seashore will illuminate the iconic lighthouse in celebration of the holidays.
By State Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the Department of State’s release of the United States Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability pursuant to Chairman Engel’s Global Fragility Act of 2019...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an emergency use authorization for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Three Virginia men have pleaded guilty to their respective roles in drug-related murder in 2018 in Fairfax.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Defendant allegedly used her position to file fraudulent claims for herself and her husband.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security; Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform; Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL), Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Martin Osborn threatened to assault Representative Henry “Hank" Johnson of Atlanta.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Covina man pleaded guilty today to federal cyberstalking charges for his multiyear internet harassment campaign against two teenage girls who rejected his sexual advances.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sharell Tishan Pitts, 43, Renardo Williams, 35, and Raymont Timothy Owens, Jr., 37, all of the District of Columbia, and Rhonda Pauline Williams, 38, of Oxon Hill, MD, were indicted on conspiracy, fraud, and aggravated identity theft charges relating to a $467,000 health care fraud scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed new acrylic shields at the security checkpoint at Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport as part of the agency’s ongoing efforts to implement initiatives to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: GUILTY PLEA - EDUARDO HUERTA. On Dec. 15, Eduardo Huerta, 20, plead guilty to possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. Agents detained Huerta at a home which doubled as a methamphetamine conversion lab. At the residence, agents seized 18 large containers of liquid methamphetamine...
