News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Cicero woman who helped numerous undocumented immigrants from Guatemala illegally enter the United States pleaded guilty today to a federal labor trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama is proud to play a critical role in the Department of Justice’s enforcement efforts under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA was signed into law 30 years ago by President George H.W. Bush, and is the landmark...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Seventeen individuals have been charged in federal court with operating a multi-state drug trafficking organization in West Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the unsealing of the federal complaint today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Are you running out of activities while self-isolating with your friends and family? Bighorn Canyon may have the solution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that SAVRAJ GATA-AURA (“GATA-AURA") was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison for participating in a scheme to defraud more than 800 investors of more than $40 million by making false and fraudulent...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, July 28, 2020-Scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have identified a new way to detect the presence of live African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) that minimizes the need for samples from live animals and provides easier access to veterinary labs that need to diagnose the virus.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A federal jury on Monday convicted a Moiese man accused of sexually abusing minor girls in Lodge Grass on the Crow Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News man and woman pleaded guilty today to a multi-year conspiracy to distribute narcotics in Hampton Roads.
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 Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay between July 12 - July 18, 2020. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Seventeen individuals have been charged in federal court with operating a multi-state drug trafficking organization in West Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the unsealing of the federal complaint today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Cameron Andrew Garcia, 26, of Dallas, Texas, was arrested today on a two-count federal indictment charging him with extortion and cyberstalking, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Alan Hansen, 49, of Vacaville, pleaded guilty Tuesday to his participation in a massive fraud scheme through DC Solar, a solar energy company in Benicia formerly owned and operated by Jeff and Paulette Carpoff, that defrauded investors of approximately $1 billion, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
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. Defendants arrested today made their initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Melrose man was arrested today and charged in connection with his role in an unemployment insurance fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Demarcus Deon Booker, 34, of Lexington, was sentenced to six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on July 27, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Alaska - This past week, “Operation (RAAVEN)" Rural Alaska Anti-Violence Enforcement continued efforts in response to Attorney General William P. Barr’s declaration of a law enforcement emergency in rural Alaska. Federal, state and local law enforcement officers worked together in Bethel, Emmonak, Alakanuk, ...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Humboldt Field Office will begin a wild horse and burro gather on or about Aug. 3, 2020 within the Shawave Mountains Herd Management Areas (HMA) located approximately 20 miles southeast of Lovelock, Nevada. The gather is expected to last 45-60 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New Jersey-based securities trader today admitted orchestrating a massive, long-running market manipulation scheme and tax fraud that netted more than $17 million in illegal profits between 2014 and 2016, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
