News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: West Palm Beach, Fl. - Today, federal district judge Kenneth A. Marra committed a man who fired gunshots inside a West Palm Beach VA Medical Center to the custody of the U.S. Attorney General for 25 years of mental health care and treatment at a suitable medical facility. The commitment is a provisional...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Over 25 Pounds of Cocaine Recovered from External Compartment of Jetliner at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank today announced that Abdikareem Hassan, 32, of Portland was charged by criminal complaint with assaulting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was charged today for subscribing to a false tax return, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
Release: APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) is working to streamline the application process for soil import
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on July 2, 2020, TREMAINE DOWDELL, 27, of Norwich, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas O. Farrish to a federal firearm offense stemming from an assault and shooting in New London last year.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - Following an investigation by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York’s Cultural Property, Arts and Antiquities (CPAA) unit with assistance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Ashraf Omar Eldarir, a U.S. citizen, is being charged with smuggling Egyptian cultural property...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruling this morning that the Dakota Access Pipeline must be shut down and drained of oil by Aug. 5 and the announcement over the weekend that the owners of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline have abandoned...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - A pair of New York men, who were stopped for speeding by a Wythe County Sheriff’s Deputy who later discovered more than $97,000 in stolen cash in the vehicle, pleaded guilty last week in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to conspiring to transport the stolen money in interstate commerce, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that Erick Bautista Irias-Zepeda, 22, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael J. Juneau to serve 12 months in federal prison for being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm. Irias-Zepeda pled guilty on Jan. 16, 2020. Following his release from prison, Irias-Zepeda will be subject to deportation proceedings.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management in cooperation with the CAL FIRE Tehama-Glenn Unit will be conducting a prescribed fire on public lands in the Sacramento River Bend area during nighttime hours on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 7-8. Burning will take place along Spring Branch Road, about a mile-and-a-half east of Jelly’s Ferry Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man who fired a gun into the grave of a murder victim during his burial service has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Sulphur, Okla. - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Chickasaw National Recreation Area is increasing recreational access in accordance with Oklahoma’s “Open Up and Recover Safely" plan. The National...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after receiving a letter from the Department of Treasury stating that the law is “clear" that the authority of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC)-a committee of independent Inspectors General created through bipartisan Congressional action in the CARES Act-extends to all spending under the CARES Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on July 2, 2020, TREMAINE DOWDELL, 27, of Norwich, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas O. Farrish to a federal firearm offense stemming from an assault and shooting in New London last year.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 31-year-old Corpus Christi man was sentenced Thursday to more than 16 years in federal prison for producing child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Chair of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2021 bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Four former supervisory correctional officers at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana - Daniel Davis (43), Scotty Kennedy (52), John Sanders (34), and James Savoy, Jr. (42) - were sentenced on July 2, for their roles in assaulting an inmate who was handcuffed, shackled, and not resisting...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 5, 2020
News Release: Officers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service detained eight people following the 37th consecutive night of violence and civil unrest in Downtown Portland.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor took a range of actions to aid American workers and employers as our nation combats the coronavirus pandemic.
