News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - A prolific small-town methamphetamine dealer involved in a larger wiretap investigation into methamphetamine trafficking in South Georgia has pleaded guilty for his crime, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Phil Grim, 43, of Cairo, Georgia, pleaded...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return by a grand jury of an indictment charging Edward Alan Hardin (33, Pomona Park) with two counts of sex trafficking children and four counts of using a cellular phone to entice children to engage in unlawful sex acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A citizen of India was sentenced in federal court for one count of conspiracy to import Schedule II and Schedule IV controlled substances, one count of conspiracy to smuggle misbranded drugs, and one count of international money laundering conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that a man received a sentence related to his involvement in an October 2019 aggravated assault on the Menominee Indian Reservation. Frank J. Sackatook III (age: 38), formerly of Neopit, will serve 90 months in prison...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $12 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs in Georgia that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the House passed S. 4209, which would ensure that non-profits and state, local, and tribal governments are able to benefit fully from CARES Act relief during the COVID-19 crisis...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio, a federal judge sentenced 33-year-old Trorice Crawford of San Diego, California, to 46 months in federal prison for his role in an identity-theft and fraud scheme that victimized thousands of U.S. servicemembers and veterans, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and Director Gustav Eyler of the Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection Branch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man pled guilty to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Darnell Smith, 26, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: TAOS, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management will host a public scoping meeting on the travel and transportation planning process for the Horsethief Mesa Travel Management Area (TMA). The TMA is north of Arroyo Hondo, N.M., on the east rim of the Rio Grande. The virtual meeting, which was originally slated for last month, has been rescheduled for July 22 from 5-7 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man pled guilty to a federal drug charge today, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Carlton Carter, 27, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin and oxycodone.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Washington - Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced an initial list of additional commodities that have been added to the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), and that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) made other adjustments to the program based on comments received...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: 45 of 68 sentenced or awaiting sentencing in large-scale drug trafficking case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Kansas City, MO - United States Marshal Mark S. James announced today U.S. Marshals Service support to Operation Legend.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man pled guilty today to federal charges related to the trafficking of methamphetamine and the possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Rahmell Rashaad Thomas, 31, pled guilty to distribution of methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2021 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: A Mapleton man was sentenced today in federal court in Portland for possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: “As Oklahoma’s United States Attorneys, we are confident tribal, state, local, and federal law enforcement will work together to continue providing exceptional public safety under this new ruling by the United States Supreme Court.".
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Pecos, NM: Pecos National Historical Park has cancelled this year’s Feast Day at Pecos Pueblo in an effort to support federal, state, and local efforts to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and to adhere to the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today approved allocations, known as 302(b)s, for its 12 subcommittees for fiscal year 2021 on a vote of 29 to 21.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Gay Vietzke has named Rosalyn “Rose" Fennell as the new superintendent of Valley Forge National Historical Park, Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, and the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail in Pennsylvania. Fennell will begin her new assignment on Sept. 27, 2020.
