News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Marc Gutierrez, age 32, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty upon his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: The Internal Revenue Service wrapped up its annual ‘Dirty Dozen’ list of tax scams with a special.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that five Kyle, South Dakota, men and women have been arrested by a complaint for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jonathan Brownlee, age 42, of Long Pond, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on July 16, 2020, before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man arrested on federal drug trafficking charges by members of the FBI Safe Street Task Force while he was on state probation, having been previously convicted in Rhode Island state court and incarcerated on unrelated drug trafficking charges, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of trafficking crystal methamphetamine (meth) and crack cocaine.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $118 million in federal funding to support the Coal FIRST (Flexible, Innovative, Resilient, Small, Transformative) Initiative. Under this cost shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding a total of $37 million to seven projects and releasing a new funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for $81 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Matthew Modafferi, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal Service, Office of Inspector General, today announced that ELIZABETH URBANI, 42, of West Haven, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with theft of mail by a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: Ways & Means Republicans Release Analysis on Biden’s New Tax Plan: Job-Killing Tax Hikes that Punish Workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on July 16, 2020, James William Chvala, age 56, of California, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 60 months in prison to be followed by four years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on Monday, July 13, 2020, Brent Rawson, age 55, of Council Bluffs, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 188 months in prison for receipt of child pornography. Rawson was ordered to serve eight years of supervised release to follow his prison term and pay $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Missouri man who admitted to conspiring to launder more than $1 million in drug proceeds was sentenced Thursday to 216 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Chief U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced William Keith Leonhart, 41, of Franklin, N.C., to 154 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for robbing at gunpoint an Asheville bank, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Forest Service and Oregon Department of Forestry are coordinating to help contain the spread of the Spence Fire, including the use of small quantities of water from Upper Klamath Lake for two Oregon Department of Forestry helicopter crews.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that an information charge was filed against Melvin Lee Jackson, age 18, of Youngstown, Ohio. Jackson is charged with 3-counts of interference with commerce by means of robbery and 2-counts using or carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: Anthony Lopes Sold Three Silencers in February 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: GREENVILLE, N.C. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging an Oxford man with illegally possessing a firearm and crack distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Anthony Gilbert Thompson, 31, of Roswell, New Mexico, appeared in federal court in Albuquerque on July 13 for an initial appearance on a criminal complaint charging him with failure to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: Police found a convicted felon with a loaded antique firearm while on escape status from the Waterloo Residential Correctional Facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Michael Starkey, age 29, of Syracuse, was sentenced today to 61 months in prison for his convictions on multiple charges relating to his participation in cocaine and crack cocaine distribution conspiracies, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Ray Donovan, Special Agent...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a Finding of No Significant Impact-Record of Decision for the Las Vegas Metroplex project. The document, as well as the Final Environmental Assessment, are available on the Las Vegas Metroplex environmental website.
