News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Oneil Wayne South, of Fairmont, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 24 months incarceration for firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Daitwaun Fair, age 33, of Syracuse, was sentenced today to serve 102 months (eight and one-half years) in prison in connection with his convictions for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base (“crack cocaine"), possession with intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Joseph Michael Bragg, 41, of Columbus, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to serve 22 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for sending more than a dozen threats to an Oklahoma sheriff and threatening the Columbus FBI agent who came to his house to interview him.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DEMETRIUS LAMONT FIORENTINO, JR., age 25, a resident of New Castle, Delaware, was indicted on June 26, 2020 by Federal Grand Jury in a one count indictment, charging him with possession with the intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride (cocaine).
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
Release: RALEIGH DURHAM, NC - With the holiday weekend approaching, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is providing travel tips and a description of changes made to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Gary Thorton, of Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced today to 33 months incarceration for heroin distribution, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: BRUNSWICK, Ga. - A pharmacist who owned and ran Fulghum Pharmacy in Baxley, Ga. was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to a conspiracy that involved health care fraud and illegal distribution of opioids.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) West Desert District has issued a fire prevention order restricting access to BLM-managed lands in the vicinity of the Knolls Fire in Utah County, Utah. The Knolls fire is located south of Saratoga Springs and west of Utah Lake.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Mid-East Commission, Washington, North Carolina, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, June 29, 2020 - The Trump Administration broke records today for the second year in a row by awarding $12.1 million in Farm to School Grants - the most awarded since the grant program’s inception ‒ to 159 grantees - the most projects funded to date. These awards, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), will help bring fresh, local foods into schools and foster economic opportunity for America’s farmers over the next school year.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a new report detailing how the Trump Administration sent more than $1 billion in improper payments to deceased Americans as part of the Coronavirus relief spending...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that George Felts, 33, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to sixteen years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge C. Darnell Jones.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man has pled guilty to drug and gun crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Johnny Ray Francis III, 19, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin and using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Unnerstall Contracting Company LLC for violations of OSHA’s trenching and excavation standards after an employee suffered severe injuries when a 20-foot trench collapsed during excavation of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: Ten Defendants Charged in $1.4 Billion Rural Hospital Pass-Through Billing Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced that on June 25, 2020, JAMES A. MOORE (“MOORE"), age 32, of Atlanta, Georgia was sentenced to time served after spending fourteen (14) months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Carl Barbier for failure to register as a sex offender under the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Paul Zuroske, 62, of Ralston, Nebraska, was sentenced in federal court for receiving child pornography. Senior United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Zuroske to 60 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: Northern New Mexico - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 255,637 visitors to Bandelier National Monument, Fort Union National Monument and Pecos National Historical Park in 2019 spent $16,113,000 in communities near these parks. That spending supported 231 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $20,661,000.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: MEDORA, North Dakota- Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Theodore Roosevelt National Park is increasing recreational access and services. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide 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 29, 2020
News Release: A man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported was sentenced today to more than four months in federal prison.
