News from June 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Fort Pulaski National Monument is increasing recreational access to Cockspur Island. 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 | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, woman today admitted her role in a scheme to defraud a financial institution of hundreds of thousands of dollars, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Gary Shoemaker, Jr., age 40, of Berwick, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on June 15, 2020, by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann to 72 months’ imprisonment for engaging in heroin trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man who participated in a conspiracy which saw large quantities of heroin transported from Akron, Ohio and distributed in the Southern District of West Virginia pled guilty today in federal court in Huntington, West Virginia, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Weston Dallas McDaniels, 34, entered guilty pleas to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Keith Frazier, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced today to 84 months incarceration for drug distribution, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -A former resident of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to seven years’ imprisonment and six years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal drug and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: DENVER -The United States Attorney’s Office t0day announced that PDC Energy, Inc., an oil and gas company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, has paid $688,500 to resolve allegations that it drilled, and later operated, an oil and gas well that removed federal minerals without permission.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Anthony L. Jackson, of Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced today to 24 months incarceration for a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Bayfield, WI - The National Park Service (NPS) is pleased to announce that the Michigan and Manitou Islands docks have been repaired and reopened.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Box Elder man accused of having sex with a minor pleaded guilty on Monday to charges, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on June 15, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Tommy Gibson a/k/a “Two-Tone," age 56, of Rome City, Indiana, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady following his plea of guilty to distribution of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Observed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: TONOPAH, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Tonopah Field Office, has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) to analyze the proposed Crown Exploration Project Plan of Operations (EPO), located about four miles southeast of the town of Beatty, in Nye County, Nevada. The comment period will be June 16 to July 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on June 15, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Report possible incidents to the U.S. Attorney’s Office Civil Rights Coordinator.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE - Murder suspect Jorge Omar Alcantara-Gonzalez, 41, is a Mexican citizen who is in the United States illegally. On June 14, Alcantara-Gonzalez was arrested by the Kittitas County Sheriff’s Department, charged with murder, burglary, theft and a variety of other local charges in connection with the disappearance of Ian Eckles. Eckles, 41, has been missing out of Kent since mid-May.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, woman today admitted her role in a scheme to defraud a financial institution of hundreds of thousands of dollars, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, June 16, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that it has purchased more than $2.2 billion of meat, fruits, vegetables, specialty crops and dairy products in fiscal years 2019 and 2020 in its ongoing efforts to feed people in need and assist American farmers...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Opened Fire on Unsuspecting Officers Guarding Courthouse at Federal Building As Public Demonstrations Continued Only Blocks Away.
