News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDGARDO RIVERA, also known as “Eggy," 28, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 138 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for fentanyl distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that James R. Bell, age 28, of Newark, New Jersey, was indicted on July 14, 2020, by a federal grand jury with drug distribution resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND-Sonny Richards, 26, of Hammond, Indiana, was sentenced by District Court Judge James T. Moody to 110 months in prison and 2 years of supervised release following his guilty plea to distribution of cocaine and to possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Science, Space, and Technology Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence today demanding that the White House direct all federal agencies to develop contingency plans for responding to natural disasters such as storms, floods, fires and extreme heat this year in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: An odd kernel trait that sidelined a brown rice variety's commercial prospects and its link to increased vitamin E levels could give it a new commercial lease on life. This finding is part of the latest issue of the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Food and Nutrition Research Briefs.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) filed a detainer July 14 with the Arapahoe County Jail on a convicted felon accused of assaulting a woman on the High Line Canal Trail in Aurora, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: California Man Charged with COVID-Relief Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Shots fired in neighborhood using illegally possessed firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jerome Roberson, 33, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to destroying evidence in a federal investigation, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - A Little Rock woman was arrested this afternoon based on allegations she fraudulently obtained nearly $2 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans intended to provide relief for small businesses affected by COVID-19. Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Little Rock Field Office, announced today the indictment of Ganell Tubbs, 41.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U. S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell sentenced Thomas Arthur Rittenhouse, 76, of Boone, N.C. to 20 years in prison on child pornography charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term imposed, Rittenhouse was ordered to a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - In a letter to Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) demanded an explanation for why the Department has delayed distributing emergency educational relief for Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of Firearms by Prohibited Person was sentenced on July 13, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Former Federal Corrections Officer Sentenced for Lying to Federal Authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Three members of the United States Air Force Air National Guard have been sentenced for smuggling firearms parts and accessories into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A Romanian citizen pleaded guilty to bank fraud in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City Wednesday morning, admitting he and his co-conspirators devised an ATM skimming scheme that allowed them to steal the personal identifiers from at least 2,732 victims and caused a loss to the victim bank of approximately $216,157.30.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Michael Ernesti of Sioux Falls, Melissa Herrboldt of Harrisburg, Preston Langeland of Yankton, and Kane Marshall of Harrisburg, all of whom were convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, have been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $4.9 million grant to the Muskogee City-County Port Authority of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, to make critical infrastructure improvements needed to protect businesses from future floods. The EDA grant, to be located in a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Opportunity Zone, will be matched with $1.65 million in local funds.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - Stage 1 fire restrictions begin Wednesday, July 15 for Bureau of Land Management (BLM) administered lands in Grand, Moffat, Rio Blanco, and Routt counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three members of allied Jersey City gangs were charged with the July 7, 2020, shooting of a 12-year old child, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
