News from July 2020
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR have begun demolishing Building K-1600 at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), marking the final teardown to end a decades-long effort to remove a shuttered uranium enrichment complex.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 31-year-old Vidor, Texas man has been sentenced for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: ORLANDO - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) seized 2,107 kilograms of cocaine and a Gulfstream III (GIII) jet for violating foreign law concerning narcotics by the Government of Guatemala. The July 26, 2020, seizure by HSI Guatemala was based on a collateral request by HSI Orlando and as part of the HSI HOMECORT National Aviation Trafficking Initiative.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
Release: aphispress@usda.gov. USDA is aware that people across the country have received suspicious, unsolicited packages of seed that appear to be coming from China. USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is working closely with the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: On July 27 and July 28, 2020, law enforcement officers executed twelve search warrants in the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa. Search warrants were executed in Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Roland, and Marshalltown, Iowa. As a result of the investigation and the execution of the search warrants, three people were charged with methamphetamine trafficking and arrested pursuant to arrest warrants issued in the Northern District of Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Two men were charged in federal court today for kidnapping a woman who was rescued from her attackers at a Neosho, Missouri, hotel room.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell today sentenced Eric Manuel Robles Rivera (45, Orlando) to 33 months in federal prison for possessing heroin with the intent to distribute it. Robles Rivera had pleaded guilty on April 23, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Quention Price, age 27, of Columbia, South Carolina, pleaded guilty today to two federal carjacking charges; to discharging a weapon during a crime of violence; and to using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, in connection with a carjacking and attempted carjacking committed on June 15, 2019, in the Inner Harbor area of downtown Baltimore.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Scranton, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Jahquell Carter, a 24-year old man from Jersey City, New Jersey.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Effective 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 fire restrictions will be removed for all lands managed by the Rio Grande National Forest, Bureau of Land Management San Luis Valley Field Office, and Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Blue Ridge Parkway is increasing recreational access at campgrounds in both Virginia and North Carolina. The National Park Service (NPS) is working service-wide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Fired Shots at Vehicles During Attempted Carjackings; Defendant Expected to Be Sentenced to 20 Years in Federal Prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released a statement after Senate Republicans released the text of their COVID-19 relief legislation, which includes a provision that would set up privileged special committees with authority to make sweeping changes to Social Security and Medicare...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Seattle - Fifteen people were arrested today throughout the Puget Sound region and in California following an 18-month investigation of a drug trafficking organization tied to the CJNG cartel in Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. The defendants arrested today made their initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Special Inspector General Brian D. Miller of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery (SIGPR), to investigate and prosecute fraud in the distribution of the massive relief package authorized by the CARES Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement urging Republicans to work with Democrats to address the multiemployer pension crisis in the next COVID-19 response package, after Republicans’ latest set of proposals offered no steps to address this critical issue.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - EM has marked the successful demolition of four buildings at the Energy Technology Engineering Cente r (ETEC) since July 21, making continued progress in the active cleanup at the former nuclear and liquid metals research site in Ventura County, California.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: FAIRBANKS, AK - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Eastern Interior Field Office, under authority delegated by the Federal Subsistence Board, will open caribou hunting on federal public lands in Units 20E, 25C, and 20F East of the Dalton Highway and South of the Yukon River on Aug. 1, 2020, to provide opportunities for federal subsistence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERIN JONES, also known as “Cree," 43, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - The United States entered into a $1 million Settlement Agreement with a global oil and fuel analysis instruments company that was awarded three contracts through the United States Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.
