News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Tyo, 32, of Liverpool, NY, pleaded guilty to two counts of bank robbery and one count of attempted bank robbery, before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today reached a settlement agreement with Ridgewood Preparatory School (Ridgewood) to ensure that students with disabilities are not discriminated against in the full and equal enjoyment of Ridgewood’s services and facilities. Ridgewood is a private, nonsectarian school in Metairie, Louisiana that provides education to children in pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Operation LeGend. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Kansas, woman was charged in federal court today with stealing a vehicle at gunpoint from the parking garage at the Country Club Plaza. Maricela Delores Lozano, 20, was charged with one count of carjacking and one count of using a firearm during a...
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: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on Wednesday, July 29, 2020, Brandon Bird, age 41, of Omaha, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to 120 months in prison for bank robbery. Bird was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow his term of imprisonment and pay a $100 Special Assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was charged today with assaulting officers with a firearm during the civil disorder in Boston early in the morning of June 1, 2020.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, July 30, 2020-The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) today announced the launch of its Scientific Discoveries 2020 website to highlight the national and international impact of ARS research on agriculture from the farmer's field to the consumer's table.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement about the importance of addressing health care costs, expanding access to quality, affordable health care, and ensuring no-cost...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Two California residents separately charged with defrauding FEMA by filing false claims for benefits offered to certain victims of the November 2018 Camp Fire plead guilty to fraud in connection with a major disaster or emergency benefits, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - The Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division will join the St. Charles, Missouri, Kiwanis on Aug. 8 for “Cycling for Our Children," as a sponsor to the bike ride that supports youth drug education.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Levester Grayer, 42, has been sentenced to 235 months in federal prison for being an armed career criminal in possession of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: NORMAN, Okla. - With concern for the health of our wild horses and burros and to mitigate the spread of the Vesicular Stomatitus Virus (VSV) that was recently introduced into the area, the BLM is postponing the wild horse and burro adoption event scheduled for August 14-15 in Baxter Springs, Kansas.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: LOVELAND, Colorado - The Bureau of Reclamation has scheduled the annual public meeting to discuss the Ruedi Reservoir Water Operations for the 2020 water year.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: KANAB, Utah - Construction on the Ponderosa Grove Campground Expansion project is scheduled to begin on August 6, 2020 and continue through September. The 16-acre campground is located in Kane County along Hancock Road, approximately 16 miles northwest of Kanab, on public lands managed by the BLM Kanab Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Roswell, N.M. - Beginning in August, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be conducting prescribed burn operations about 10 miles northeast of Ruidoso and 6 miles southeast of Capitan in Lincoln County. The 206-acre Pershing slash pile unit is located within the Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 26-year-old man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute meth in the Houston area, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: A Dallas Police Officer has been charged with uploading sexually explicit images of children using the City of Dallas’ employee internet, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By State Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a full committee hearing on the FY 2021 State Department budget request, with witness testimony from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel, III, today sentenced Arinze Michael Ozor, age 37, of Bowie, Maryland, a dual citizen of the United States and Nigeria, to 18 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for forgery or false use of a passport, in connection with his use of false passports to open “drop accounts" for a money laundering conspiracy. Judge Hazel also ordered Ozor to pay restitution of $43,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Marshals are holding an online auction starting July 30 for 126 lots of minor assets from the fraudulent Fyre Festival planned by William “Billy" McFarland that was scheduled to occur in the Bahamas in 2017.
