News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A man and a woman have been charged in federal court with attempting to steal cash from an automated-teller machine on the South Side of Chicago last week.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: DENVER - A Gambian man previously residing in Denver, Colorado, was arrested today on torture charges stemming from his actions specifically intended to inflict severe physical pain and suffering on individuals in his custody and control in The Gambia in 2006.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man who founded and owned a business consulting firm admitted today to orchestrating a multimillion-dollar bank fraud and securities fraud scheme operated through that firm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TX - The National Park Service (NPS) announced today that: Following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Public Health Service, Texas Department of State Health Services, and the public health authority for Brewster County, Texas, Big Bend...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Gambian Man Indicted on Torture Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 22-year-old Juan Pablo Hoyos Avila, a Mexican national residing in San Antonio, to five years in federal prison for attempting to smuggle more than $879,000 in alleged drug proceeds to Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, San Antonio Division.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
Release: The United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and its State partners have successfully completed actions to eliminate Ralstonia solanacearum race 3 biovar 2 from U.S. greenhouses. This announcement comes just two months after the pathogen was first detected ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
Release: QUEENS, N.Y.-Nobody wants to see others suffer from hunger. Longtime Transportation Security Administration (TSA) lead officer Vince Reardon decided that he was going to volunteer his spare time during the pandemic to help feed the homeless in New York’s Tompkins Square Park by volunteering with Chilis On Wheels, a non-profit organization that shares meals, but not just any meals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: ASHLAND, Ky. - A Dayton, Ohio man, Robert Amos, 33, pled guilty in federal court on Tuesday, before U.S. District Judge David Bunning, to possession with intention to distribute 50 grams of more of methamphetamine and fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: CODY, Wyo. - As part of its commitment to serve local communities through the management of sustainable, working public lands, the Bureau of Land Management has analyzed a proposed bentonite mining expansion project located in Big Horn County. The BLM Cody Field Office will accept comments on the environmental assessment through July 10, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) public affairs officer pleaded guilty today to defrauding at least a dozen companies of over $4.4 million by posing falsely as a covert officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The United States Attorney’s Office filed a civil forfeiture action against a Waltham home that was the former residence and business location of a couple previously indicted in connection with a scheme to smuggle goods out of the United States and to supply services to Syria. The United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A resident of Vancouver, Canada, was charged yesterday in connection with a pump-and-dump scheme involving a penny stock company for which he impersonated the company’s president-an otherwise fictitious individual-and established a website containing false and misleading statements about the company’s purported business.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced PEYTONN M. SUCHOR, 31, of Rozet, Wyoming on June 5, 2020 for retaliation against an informant. Suchor was arrested in Gillette, Wyoming. He received forty-two months of imprisonment, to be followed by thirty-six months of supervised release, and ordered to pay community restitution in the amount of $500.00. The Gillette Police Department and the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation investigated this case.
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: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - June 11, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man who founded and owned a business consulting firm admitted today to orchestrating a multimillion-dollar bank fraud and securities fraud scheme operated through that firm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings woman accused of taking three people to the bus station in Billings for a trip to Georgia to engage in commercial sexual activity pleaded guilty to charges today, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Pablo Vargas-Arriga, 41, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to re-entry of a previously removed alien and was sentenced to serve 20 months in prison.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: MOBILE, AL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited roofing contractor Elmer Julio Perez - operating as Julio Perez - for failing to protect employees from fall hazards after a worker fatally fell from a residential roof at a Mobile, Alabama, worksite. The company faces $138,118 in penalties.
