News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington woman, Crystal Brotherton, 32, was sentenced on Thursday, to 12 months and 1 day in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, after previously admitting to intimidating individuals by making threats involving explosives and the destruction of buildings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Raleigh, North Carolina, man with ties to Trenton admitted today to distributing heroin and unlawfully possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Derek Padilla, 29, of Santa Fe, New Mexico appeared in federal court on June 10 on a criminal complaint charging him with theft of government property in Indian Country. A U.S. magistrate judge conducted a detention hearing and ordered him to remain in custody pending trial.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Wind Cave National Park is increasing services at the Elk Mountain Campground. 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 Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: MONTICELLO, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Monticello Field Office has completed the first phase of raptor nest surveys in the Indian Creek area and has revised the 2020 avoidance areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 31-year-old Starr County, Texas, man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking, and a 27-year-old Titus County, Texas, man has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - For the second week in a row after conducting COVID-19 surveillance testing on Yellowstone employees, all tests came back negative. On June 4-5, health officials from Park County, Montana, tested 179 employees from the National Park Service and concession companies operating...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: SAYRE, Oklahoma: Bring the family and join a Park Ranger at Gallery @112 for free storytelling & an activity. For the month of June, kids will learn about vultures with the story “Vulture View" by April Sayre, a story about vultures as they soar on balmy air in search of their next stinky meal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Dominic Davidson, 27, a former Correctional Officer with the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office (RPSO), Detention Center 1, in Alexandria, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell, to one misdemeanor count of using excessive force against a pretrial detainee housed at the facility.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement after the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a decision that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) violated the law when it used funds in the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, 2019 (H.R. 3401 ).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt today announced the annual economic benefit of national parks to the U.S. and local economies. In 2019, visitor spending in communities near national parks resulted in a $41.7 billion benefit to the nation’s economy and supported 340,500...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today asked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a comprehensive public database of funds distributed from the CARES Act to health care providers in the effort to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS, MN-FBI Minneapolis special agents and analysts are pouring over video and pictures from the recent violent protests in the Twin Cities that have been sent in by the public. The digital media is being examined frame by frame to reveal clues that may help identify those involved in rioting and violence that occurred the week of May 26.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Porcupine, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: MEMPHIS, TN -Marcus Christian, 33, has been sentenced to 130 months imprisonment for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentencing today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: U.S. website of Syrian company also seized.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Frank Horner, III, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A federal grand jury has indicted six members of an Atlantic City drug-trafficking organization for their roles in the distribution of large amounts of heroin in the Atlantic City area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign helps educate GA pilots about safety, including loss of control, power plant failure and controlled flight into terrain.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Seattle - A 25-year-old Tacoma, Washington, resident was arrested this morning on five federal counts of arson for burning five Seattle P0lice vehicles parked in the area of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle on Saturday, May 30, 2020, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. MARGARET AISLINN CHANNON...
