News from July 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Tucson, Ariz. (July 30, 2020) --- Effective Thursday, July 30, 2020, the Bureau of Land Management Gila District, all districts of the Coronado National Forest, Saguaro National Park, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Coronado National Memorial, Chiricahua National Monument, Fort Bowie National Historic...
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 DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - Authorities are warning Texans of potential fraud following the landfall of Hurricane Hanna while continuing to remind the public of coronavirus-related scams, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: On July 28, 2020, at approximately 1:20 a.m. the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Dispatch Center received a report of a boating accident and missing person on Lake Powell. Witnesses reported the victim was part of a group of people camping overnight in a houseboat on the shoreline of Lake Powell...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Angus King (I-Maine), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and Maria Cantwell (D-Wa.) sent a letter to Gene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), seeking a comprehensive GAO review of current methane emissions from oil and gas development.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA - An Ennis pharmacist accused of diverting opioids today admitted to unlawfully dispensing an opioid and obtaining personal opioid prescriptions by fraud or forgery, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Charged With Receiving Multiple Deposits of CARES Act Unemployment Funds from Arizona and Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG - Dr. James Patrick Lewis, of Fairview, West Virginia, was sentenced today to three months incarceration for a fraud charge involving West Virginia University, the Department of Justice announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on May 19, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a Decision and Order Without Hearing by Reason of Default against Scott Deters, doing business as Scott Deters...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Alvin Lavon Rex, age 61, from Schaller, Iowa, has been charged with one count of mail fraud. The charge is contained in a criminal complaint unsealed today in United States District Court in Sioux City.
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 an Agency Village, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child and Abusive Sexual Contact.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Early this morning, Thursday, July 30, park rangers received an emergency call from a group of climbers on Broadway Ledge, near Fields Chimney, on the east face of Longs Peak, who witnessed an unroped climber in another climbing group fall while traversing Broadway.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Operation LeGend. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man who threatened a witness has been charged in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition. Shannon L. Walz, 45, was charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and one count of being a felon in...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released the following statement welcoming Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) to the House Natural Resources Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kwashie Ajavon, 33, of Greece, NY, who was convicted of possessing with intent to distribute crack cocaine, and being a felon in possession of a firearm and/or ammunition, was sentenced to serve 87 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A former Dublin, Ohio woman pleaded guilty via video conference in U.S. District Court today to conspiring to steal exosome-related trade secrets concerning the research, identification and treatment of a range of pediatric medical conditions.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION. DA-2020-15. July 29, 2020 To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials Effective July 22, 2020, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) removed the Mexican fruit fly (Mexfly) quarantine area in ...
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. The Jewish community in Bulgaria numbered more than 50,000 between World War I and World War II, nearly one percent of the population at the time. In March 1941, Bulgaria joined the Axis and enacted anti-Jewish legislation that excluded Jews from public service, restricted where Jews could ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Carlos Correa, age 32, of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on July 23, 2020, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 30 months’ imprisonment for his participation in a heroin trafficking conspiracy in Schuylkill and Luzerne Counties.
