News from July 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: (Fort Laramie, WY) Hank Cramer, one of America’s best-loved folksingers will present two concerts at Fort Laramie National Historic Site on Saturday and Sunday, July 18-19, 2020. His first performance will be at 6:00 pm on Saturday followed by two performances at 10:30 am and 2:30 pm on Sunday.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments, Waterloo, Iowa, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Richard Frank Roa Jr., 36, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Larry R. Hicks to 37 months in prison for assaulting a federal officer and causing bodily injury to the officer while he was engaged in official duties, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - A Pikeville man, Ernest Ray, 56, was sentenced Monday, to 156 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, after previously pleading guilty to five counts of recruiting, enticing, harboring, transporting, providing, and maintaining minors to engage in commercial sexual acts.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $150,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the East Central Council of Local Governments, Stratton, Colorado, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Thursday, July 9, 2020, Robert Brandon Malone, 35, a resident of Prattville, Alabama, was sentenced to 71 months in prison after pleading guilty to federal wire fraud charges and to transporting a stolen vehicle, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., FBI Special...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Region IV Development Association, Inc., Twin Falls, Idaho, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: WEST GLACIER, Mont. [July 11, 2020]- A Kalispell woman in her thirties collided with what is believed to be a young grizzly bear while trail running on Huckleberry Lookout Trail. She was able to walk back down the trail with friends and met the rangers just as they arrived at the trailhead. The woman self-transported to Kalispell Regional Medical Center for further treatment and evaluation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeny Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge, New York Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Andriana Vamvakas, Northeastern Regional Director, U.S. Department of Labor Office of Labor-Management...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: BALTIMORE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a man sanctioned for financing Hezbollah, a designated foreign terrorist organization, and convicted of violating those sanctions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the arrest of Terrance Lee Hester, Jr. ( 20, Tampa) based on a criminal complaint for damaging or destroying by fire a building used in interstate commerce. Hester surrendered to federal authorities in Oswego, New York. After an initial appearance on Friday afternoon in the Northern District of New York, Hester remains in custody.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Chair of the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Appropriations Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2021 Energy and Water Development bill.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
Release: To help facilitate the clearance of imported plants and plant products during the COVID-19 pandemic, APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will continue to accept electronically produced versions of phytosanitary certificates through Sept. 30, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Luis Enrique Delgado-Arvizu, age 32, of Denver, was sentenced late last week to serve 150 months (over 12 years) in federal prison, followed by 5 years on supervised release for his role as an organizer-supervisor of a large methamphetamine distribution organization that shipped hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine to the Denver area. The Denver Division of the DEA joined in the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a three-count indictment charging Priscilla Vogelbacher, 37, of Oregon, Ohio, with one count of enticement of a minor and two counts of interstate travel with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: West Palm Beach, Fl. - Federal prosecutors in West Palm Beach have charged two Florida residents with felony crimes for allegedly poaching protected sea turtle eggs to later sell them. The accused poachers allegedly stole 93 eggs from their nest on Florida’s Singer Island Beach in May of this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the arrest of Terrance Lee Hester, Jr. ( 20, Tampa) based on a criminal complaint for damaging or destroying by fire a building used in interstate commerce. Hester surrendered to federal authorities in Oswego, New York. After an initial...
By State Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Representatives Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman and ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today released ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today that Gilberto Arana Wence was arrested on July 10, 2020 and charged with illegal re-entry by a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: Union Treasurer, a Police Officer, Also Charged With Obstruction of Justice and False Statements.
