News from July 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: Updated as of 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20: The pilots from the July 30 plane crash have officially been identified as David Blake Haynes and Scott Thomas.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- Biscayne National Park is closing the Dante Fascell Visitor Center, island visitor facilities, and administrative facilities at 5:00 pm today in preparation for potential severe weather associated with Hurricane Isaias.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - Firefighters quickly extinguished a two-acre brush fire that ignited in dry ‘ohi‘a woodland late Thursday afternoon, off Highway 11 near mile marker 31 between Namakanipaio Campground and Mauna Loa Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: NDAL Chosen for National Safety Partnership Program.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $97 million in funding for 33 projects that will support high-impact technology research and development to accelerate the bioeconomy. These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on July 29, 2020, United States District Judge Christina Reiss sentenced Rory Jackson, 36, of Queens, New York to 18 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, to be followed by five years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Over the course of five days, Jerry Wayne Wilkerson, 39, Michael Chatfield, 30, Kasey Nicholson, 34, Billy Hindmon, 38, and Jayson Montgomery, 39, were sentenced by the Honorable Harry S. Mattice, Jr., in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga, to prison terms for their roles in a scheme to defraud the federal government and insurance companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Marvin Leroy Smith-Capers, Jr., age 38, of Newark, New Jersey, was sentenced to 92 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to arson. He was also ordered to pay over $700,000 in restitution to the victims: Joy’s Touch of Class, Goldstein’s, and the Super 10. United States District Court Judge Mary Geiger Lewis presided over the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Larry Darnell Armstrong, 50, Minneapolis, Minnesota, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to three years in federal prison for committing a robbery of a business located in River Falls, Wisconsin. The parties jointly recommended the three-year prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - U.S. Attorney Tim Garrison announced today that 97 arrests have been made by local and federal law enforcement officers in less than two weeks since the launch of Operation LeGend.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury today indicted a Union County, New Jersey, man for persuading, inducing and enticing numerous female victims to travel in interstate or foreign commerce to engage in prostitution and other sexual acts, often by use of force, violence and threats, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Eric Allen Harris, of Beverly, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 36 months incarceration for a drug distribution charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A California man pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Wichita to trafficking in fentanyl and heroin, in a case investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division, along with the Kansas Highway Patrol.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - An Oxford man was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (crack) and possession of firearms by a convicted felon.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Transportation Security Administration discovered a loaded firearm at a Nashville International Airport (BNA) checkpoint this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: Pineville Man Charged with Forced Labor and Transporting a Minor with Intent to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal grand jury on Tuesday returned a superseding indictment against a Tuscaloosa County man for trafficking methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acting Special Agent in Charge Frank Haera.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a former Dauphin County Prison guard, Addie Isaac Reid, age 24, of Harrisburg, PA, was indicted on July 2, 2020, for bribery related to trying to smuggle a cellular telephone into Dauphin County Prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - A Butler County man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to making a false statement in connection with the acquisition of the firearm used in killing Dayton Police Detective and DEA Task Force Officer Jorge DelRio on Nov. 4, 2019, during the execution of a search warrant on Ruskin Road in Dayton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - U.S. Attorney Tim Garrison announced today that 97 arrests have been made by local and federal law enforcement officers in less than two weeks since the launch of Operation LeGend.
