News from June 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management Southern Nevada District announces the availability of a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) to address potential environmental consequences associated with the proposal by CR Reward LLC (CRR) to modify a permitted open pit mining operation at the Reward Project...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Justin E. Herdman, U.S Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced today that a federal grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio has returned a three-count indictment charging Trevor Leis, 27, of Elida, Ohio with two counts of being an unlawful drug user in possession of firearms and one count of making false statements in connection with the purchase of firearms. Leis was arrested this morning b ythe FBI without incident.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Jacob Clark Jackson, 29, of Mobile, was sentenced today in federal court to five days in custody as time served on the charge of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Jackson pled guilty to the charge in October of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced today that United States District Judge Terry F. Moorer sentenced defendant Valeriano Cuevas-Mendoza, 35, an illegal alien from Mexico, to imprisonment for 57 months for unlawful entry into the United States by a deported...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Enricki Gomez, 30, Rockford, Illinois, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 21 months in federal prison for possessing 500 grams or more of cocaine with intent to distribute. Gomez pleaded guilty to this charge on March 10, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Twenty members and associates of NOB, a Boston-based street gang, have been charged in federal court in Boston for various crimes, including racketeering (“RICO") conspiracy, violent crimes in aid of racketeering, drug trafficking, crossing state lines for the purpose of prostitution (the Mann Act), firearms charges and bank fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Living through the COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging. It has required us all to change our normal habits and adapt to a new way of doing things. Teleworking full-time from home, social distancing, wearing face masks in public and staying put at home for an extended time are things we never really...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: A federal judge today unsealed a criminal complaint charging 48-year-old San Antonio resident Shannon Kuchler with driving to Boston to pick up a minor he met on the “Dark Web" and transport her to San Antonio in order to engage in sexual relations, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Oscar Dewayne Blevins, 26, of Selma, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Blevins pleaded guilty to the charge in March of 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Founder and CEO of Iranian Financial Services Firm Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Violate U.S. Sanctions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Greenbrier County woman pled guilty to a wire fraud charge today, according to United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Cathy Byers, 44, of Renick, pled guilty to one count of wire fraud. Byers faces up to 20 years in prison when sentenced on Oct. 2, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - The owner and operator of several information technology companies in the Chicago area has been charged with filing a bank loan application that fraudulently sought more than $400,000 in a forgivable Paycheck Protection Program loan guaranteed by the Small Business Administration under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Bryan County woman admitted in federal court to attempting to persuade a victim to recant allegations that the woman’s husband had coerced a minor for sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND- Ralph Mendez, Jr., 24, of Chicago, Illinois, pled guilty to conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity as a member of the Latin Dragons Nation street gang, including admitting responsibility for two homicides, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. In the plea agreement, the parties agree that Mendez, Jr., should serve a sentence of 42.5 years imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND- Ralph Mendez, Jr., 24, of Chicago, Illinois, pled guilty to conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity as a member of the Latin Dragons Nation street gang, including admitting responsibility for two homicides, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A former high-ranking member of the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico was arraigned today on federal drug charges following his extradition from Mexico. The defendant, Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, was charged with one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and heroin, one count of conspiracy to import into the United States cocaine and heroin, and distribution of heroin, in an indictment that was returned by a federal grand jury in January 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Topeka man was indicted today in federal court in Wichita on charges of committing robberies at three stores in Topeka, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
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 Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Garfield, AR - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Pea Ridge National Military Park is working to increase programs for the visiting public. 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: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Tavon Johnson, age 30, previously of Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced on June 15, 2020 by U.S District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann to 12 months’ imprisonment for possession of narcotics while incarcerated at the Allenwood Low Federal Correctional Institution (FCC Allenwood), Allenwood, Pennsylvania.
