News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Janette Marie Asplund, 36, of Hancock County, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. to 57 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for knowingly selling a firearm to a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent-in-Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Asplund was also ordered to pay a $2,500 fine.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued guidance to assist employers reopening non-essential businesses and their employees returning to work during the evolving coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Janette Marie Asplund, 36, of Hancock County, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. to 57 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for knowingly selling a firearm to a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent-in-Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Asplund was also ordered to pay a $2,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant VINCENT RAYMOND RIOS (Rios), age 45, from Chalan Pago, Guam was sentenced in the United States District Court of Guam to 27 years imprisonment for Conspiracy to Distribute Fifty ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man, Javantez L. Masters, 21, pleaded guilty on Thursday, before Chief U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves, to possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John B. DeVito, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF"), Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD")...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS- A Wolf Point man and former tribal police officer who admitted touching a child’s genitals on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation was sentenced today to time served of 324 days in custody and two years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Twelve defendants from Allegheny, Lawrence and Westmoreland Counties have been charged with drug trafficking following a months-long wiretap investigation into narcotics trafficking in the City of Pittsburgh and greater Allegheny County region, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A Lame Deer man today admitted allegations that he attempted to sexually abuse a minor in 2018, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Dharmesh Patel, 31, formerly of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 87 months in prison for committing aggravated identity theft and wire fraud. Patel pled guilty to those charges on March 13, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Chief U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced to prison two men responsible for the armed robberies of two cell phone stores located in Buncombe and Henderson Counties, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $20 million investment in the University of Tennessee (UT) to advance workforce development in emerging energy fields. DOE’s investment in UT, Tennessee’s flagship land-grant university, will expand the University’s partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) through the Oak Ridge Institute (ORI).
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Lloyd Doggett announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on “Examining the COVID-19 Nursing Home Crisis" on Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 2:00 p.m.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Luray, Virginia - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1.4 million visitors to Shenandoah National Park in 2019 spent $96.7 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 1,190 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $129 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Katherine Dejesus-Gonzalez, 36, of Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Robert McAdam, age 47, of Rutland, Vermont, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with traveling across state lines with the intent to engage in a sexual act with a minor.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - Northern California natural resource managers are asking for the public’s help in a battle against an invasive, non-native plant with a name that hints at its damaging and unpleasant impacts: stinkwort.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Daniel Strickland has pleaded guilty to producing child pornography of two minors in his care. A federal grand jury had indicted Strickland in November 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a grand jury New Haven returned an indictment yesterday charging WILTON REYNOSO, also known as Manuel Jose Echevarria-Lugo...
By State Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today made the following statement on reports that President Trump may welcome Polish President Andrzej Duda to the White House in the coming days...
