News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Today, federal authorities arrested 62-year-old Juan Benavidez of San Antonio and filed a federal criminal complaint charging him with distributing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Building and maintaining effective partnerships with private sector stakeholders and other law enforcement agencies is crucial to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) achieving its national security and homeland security missions. ICE is recognizing the contributions of these critical...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Chesapeake, Ohio man pled guilty to a sex offense involving a minor, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Mikel Bradley Smith, 19, pled guilty to traveling in interstate commerce to engage in sexual activity with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman convicted of Larceny was sentenced on July 29, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today returned a 34-count indictment against Jose Huizar, an elected member of the Los Angeles City Council, on charges that he led a criminal enterprise where he used his powerful position at City Hall to enrich himself and his close associates, and unlawfully gave favorable treatment to developers who financed and facilitated bribes and other illicit financial benefits.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - BLM Wyoming is excited to co-host the Wyoming Mustang Days with the Wyoming Mustang Association and Mantle Adoption and Training Facility at the 108 Wyoming State Fair August 11-15, 2020 in Douglas, Wyoming. The BLM will also have two halter started horses available for adoption at the...
By State Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
Release: More information about Sweden is available on the Sweden Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Alexander Samuel Smith, 32, of Waxhaw, N.C., was sentenced to 60 months in prison late yesterday, for making a false statement to the FBI, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Chief U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. also ordered Smith...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Richard L. Treis, 46, was charged by a federal complaint today with possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - George Cruz, 30, of Nashua, was sentenced on Wednesday to 63 months in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - Richard L. Treis, 46, was charged by a federal complaint today with possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Today, 47-year-old Deanna Bates Wehde of San Antonio admitted to stealing over $470,000 from the company she managed, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA - Robert Joseph, a.k.a. Ruben Oakes, a convicted felon who conspired with, and directed, straw purchasers to obtain firearms that he would then deliver to a co-conspirator, Harold Gaines, in Maryland, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court here to 27 months in federal prison. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and Ashan M. Benedict, Special Agent in Charge of ATF’s Washington Field Division made the announcement today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Researcher Pleaded Guilty to Conspiring to Steal Scientific Trade Secrets from Ohio Children’s Hospital to Sell in China.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Port Angeles, WA- A wildfire was discovered yesterday just North of East Beach Road near Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park. The East Beach Road Fire was first reported to Olympic National Park Fire Management around 4:00 pm on July 29, 2020 and is estimated to be approximately 63 acres. The fire is suspected of being human ignited and the cause and origin are under investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment on July 7, 2020, charging two men with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, 13 counts of bank fraud, and 1 count of aggravated identity theft. The indictment was announced by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Camdenton, Missouri, man with a history of predatory financial crimes against women was sentenced in federal court today for a $78,000 fraud scheme in which he used his victim’s credit cards without authorization.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: CASPER, Wyoming - In support of the Trump Administration’s goals to promote responsible American energy independence and support local jobs and economies, the Bureau of Land Management Casper Field Office today published a final environmental impact statement and proposed resource management plan amendment for the Converse County Oil and Gas Project. The publication of a notice in today’s Federal Register begins a 30-day protest period that will end Aug. 31, 2020.
