News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - A convicted felon caught with an assault rifle and more than a dozen rounds of ammunition has pleaded guilty for his crime, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Blake Richard Ruis, 26, of Valdosta, entered a guilty plea to possession of a firearm by...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Jesse James Smallwood, Delveccho Waller, Jr., Bruce Thompson, Judah Coleman Bailey, and Dashun Martin have been indicted by a federal grand jury for the offenses of conspiring to commit, and commission and attempted commission of, arson of a police car following a protest stemming from the death of George Floyd.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Between January and June 2020, defendant allegedly stole and sold ventilators, bronchoscopes, and other respiratory support equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Justin. E. Herdman, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced today that a federal grand jury in Cleveland has returned separate indictments against two men in the Ashtabula area on charges of illegal drug and firearm possession. These are separate cases and are not related.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: MENOMONIE, Wis. - David Hartwig, 32, Menomonie, Wisconsin, is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, with possessing heroin with intent to distribute, and with possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The indictment alleges that on May 6, 2020, he possessed a 9mm pistol and ammunition, and heroin with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Tommie Thomas, 37, of Bakersfield, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd on Tuesday to 20 years and six months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank today joined the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice in announcing a new 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: A new online tool designed to help the public report civil rights violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jacob Graham, 19, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara possessing with intent to distribute five grams or more of actual methamphetamine, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a fine of $5,000,000.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: A recent National Park Service report shows that in 2019, 3.4 million park visitors spent an estimated $630 million in local gateway regions while visiting Grand Teton National Park. These expenditures supported a total of 8,640 jobs, $275 million in labor income, $463 million in value added, and $796 million in economic output in local gateway economies surrounding Grand Teton National Park.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Dear Commissioner Rettig: We were alarmed to learn that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) failed to audit 879,415 high-income taxpayers who did not file (or file a complete) tax return for tax years 2014-2016. According to a June 1, 2020 report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: HELENA-A Helena man who admitted sending threatening text messages and participating in an armed robbery of a couple involved in heroin trafficking last year was sentenced today to 11 years and seven months in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - On June 17, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced that a Philadelphia woman was charged by criminal complaint for the arson of two Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) vehicles, following an investigation by the FBI, U.S. Immigration and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal criminal complaint against BRYCE MICHAEL WILLIAMS, 26, charging him with conspiracy to commit arson at the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct. WILLIAMS, who was arrested on June, 16, 2020, made his initial appearance earlier today before Magistrate Judge David T. Schultz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Senate last night unanimously approved the Improving Social Security’s Service to Victims of Identity Theft Act. The bipartisan bill, introduced last month by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), would require the Social Security Administration to provide a single point of contact for Americans whose social security numbers have been misused following an identity theft.
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: SPOKANE, Wash. - Randall Curtis Gross, 27, of Grand Coulee, Washington, was sentenced on June 16, 2020, after having pleaded guilty on Feb. 11, 2020, to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine as well as heroin. Senior District Court Judge Wm. Fremming Nielsen sentenced Gross to a 10-year term of imprisonment, to be followed by a 5-year term of court supervision after he is released from federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - The U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force needs the help of the public in locating a fugitive from justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An employee of a Mount Holly, New Jersey, medical practice was arrested today for allegedly selling fraudulent prescriptions for controlled substances, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sent a letter to multiple finance ministers warning them not to press forward with plans for new digital taxes...
