News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General William P. Barr announced today the designation of Seth D. DuCharme as Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 3345(a)(3), effective July 10, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: A Florida man was arrested today on allegations that he fraudulently sought several Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, and that he participated in a scheme to defraud Medicare of at least $5.6 million. It is further alleged that a portion of the PPP loan proceeds were potentially used in furtherance of the Medicare fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Fire restrictions will expand into central Utah on Monday, July 13, for all public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management in Piute, Sanpete, Sevier and Wayne counties. Fire restrictions will continue for Washington, Iron, Beaver, Garfield and Kane counties to reduce unwanted human caused wildfires with increasing fire danger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: MEMPHIS, TN - Jeremy Nicks, 35, has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, Missouri - United States District Judge John A. Ross sentenced Emanuel Mays, 29, of St. Louis, to 76 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute one or more controlled substances and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a criminal complaint charging JARVAE JOSIAH SOMERVILLE, 27, and RONALD DONTE FINLEY, JR., 25, with one count each of possession of a firearm by a felon. SOMERVILLE and FINLEY made their initial appearances earlier today before Magistrate Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A federal grand jury this week returned indictments that charge four men, in separate, unrelated cases with trafficking child pornography. The defendants include two registered sex offenders from Decatur and two men from Rantoul, Ill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOSHUA JENKINS, 27, of Hartford, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Jeffrey A. Meyer to distributing fentanyl and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -A former resident of Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court on July 8, 2020 on his conviction of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: The Defendant Defrauded more than 60 Victims, Including some at, or near, Retirement Age.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has opened the South Side Trail in the Headwaters Forest Reserve and announced the start of guided hikes in the Salmon Pass area on the south side of the reserve, in Humboldt County.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX), and the co-chairs of the Committee’s Rural and Underserved Communities Health Task Force’s (Task Force)-Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell (D-AL), Ways and Means Worker and Family Support...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
Release: CHICAGO - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) discovered a loaded firearm at a Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Two Portsmouth men were sentenced this week to a combined 33 years in prison for their roles in a family-run heroin-trafficking organization that trafficked at least one kilogram of heroin throughout Hampton Roads and sold handguns, rifles, and shotguns with the drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Douglass Gordon Doggett, 43, of Anchorage, has been charged with sexual exploitation of children, distribution of child pornography, receipt of child pornography, possession of child pornography, and illegal possession of a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Rainelle man pled guilty today to a sex offense involving a minor, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Michael Darnell Ramsey, 47, pled guilty to attempted sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A California couple has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges in connection with securing the fraudulent admission of their daughter to the University of Southern California as a purported athletic recruit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III has sentenced Devon Denzel Thompson, age 26, of Woodlawn, Maryland, to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute three kilograms of fentanyl. Judge Russell also ordered Thompson to forfeit drug proceeds of $14,144 in cash and a.380-caliber firearm and ammunition recovered during a search of his home. The sentence was imposed on July 9, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Mineral, CA - An area in Lassen Volcanic National Park is closed to backcountry camping due to black bear(s) obtaining food from campers. The closure extends one mile in all directions from the following lakes frequently accessed from Summit Lake Trailhead: Echo, Upper Twin, Lower Twin, Swan, and Rainbow Lake.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that an investigation of a Bridgeport murder in 2018 and other violent acts has resulted in federal charges against the following five individuals.
