News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that On June 10, 2020, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs Border Patrol-Air Marine Operation (CBP-AMO) personnel reported that while on duty in the western vicinity of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, they spotted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice today announced the launch of the Civil Rights Reporting Portal. This new online tool will make it easier for the public to report a civil rights violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Roy Thundercloud, 37, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, appeared in federal court in Albuquerque, New Mexico on June 15 for an initial appearance on a criminal complaint charging him with felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: New Albuquerque FBI Task Force Swears in Bernalillo County Law Enforcement Officers.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 4 million people to Yellowstone in 2019 spent $507 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 7,000 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $642 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By State Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement after President Trump signed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 (S.3744) into law:
By DOE Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc. the new Environmental Management (EM) Nevada Environmental Program Services (EPS) contract that will provide a variety of cleanup services at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). EM competed this contract...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Analysis: Democrats’ Proposed Tax Hikes Hurt Workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Branden Jones, age 21, of Baltimore, yesterday to 10 years in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice today announced the launch of the Civil Rights Reporting Portal. This new online tool will make it easier for the public to report a civil rights violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Lawrence Keefe today encouraged residents across.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on June 8, 2020, United States District Judge William K. Sessions III sentenced Arthur Ranney to 97 months in prison following his guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine. Ranney’s offense involved over 300 grams of high-purity methamphetamine, a highly-addictive and dangerous stimulant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on June 16, 2020, Chief United States District Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford sentenced Ricardo Quinones, 26, of Holyoke, Massachusetts, to 36 months in prison following his guilty plea to knowingly and intentionally using a cellular phone to commit the drug felonies of possession with intent to distribute heroin and attempted distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Department of Justice this week announced the launch of the Civil Rights Reporting Portal. This new online tool will make it easier for the public to report a civil rights violation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Reed, Local Leaders Call Out Cuomo For Hoarding CARES Relief Funds to Child Care Facilities.
By State Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today hosted a virtual committee coffee with King Abdullah II of Jordan to discuss the strong, strategic relationship between the United States and Jordan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A federal grand jury indicted Stephen T. Parshall, aka “Kiwi," 35, Andrew Lynam, 23, and William L. Loomis, 40, all of Las Vegas, for violations of federal law for conspiracy to cause destruction during protests in Las Vegas and possession of an unregistered destructive device, specifically, a so-called “Molotov cocktail.".
