News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, June 9, 2020, Derrick Lomont Hornsby, Jr., a 25-year-old man from Samson, Alabama, was sentenced to 60 months in prison, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Following his prison sentence, Hornsby will be on supervised release for three years. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) is set to open additional park facilities. Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, the National Lakeshore is increasing recreational access and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: In Pecos today, 47-year-old Harry George Bock, II, pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme to illegally sell protected living rock cactus plants, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; Phillip Land, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Office of Law Enforcement of the Southwest Region; and, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Erik P. Breitzke, El Paso Division.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska today chaired a hearing to examine wildfire management in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: A Macomb County hearing aid dealer pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Detroit on charges of Conspiracy to Commit Health Care Fraud, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today. This follows the conviction on the same charge on March 18, 2020, of a hearing aid salesman who worked for the dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role as a member of a heroin trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: NOAA today announced it will formalize and expand its longstanding partnership with Schmidt Ocean Institute offsite link to explore, characterize and map the deep ocean and boost public understanding of the global ocean.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Matthew Brehm (619) 546-8983.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that RICHARD YUAN LI, age 20, a resident of Hercules, California, was charged on June 8, 2020 in the Eastern District of Louisiana in a one-count Bill of Information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 371 and 1343, for his role in a SIM Swap scam that targeted at least twenty people, including a New Orleans-area physician.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today announced the award of 26 competitive research contracts with 23 small businesses to participate in Phase I of the DHS Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. Each project will receive up to $150,000 from the DHS SBIR Program to conduct proof-of-concept research over a six-month period to address specific homeland security technology needs.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) during today’s hearing titled: “On the Front Lines: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Transportation Workers."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Andrew Haden (619) 546-6961.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Updated June 12, 2020: These individuals have been identified.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced that 20 law enforcement officers have been selected to receive the U.S. Attorney’s Office Excellence in the Pursuit of Justice award, for their significant contributions to the.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
Release: TSA officers at airports in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa, Jacksonville and Pensacola stopped guns that passengers had brought to the security checkpoints - six of them in six days. As passenger volumes have increased, so have the guns. Every one of the guns was accompanied by ammunition; most were loaded.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of malicious destruction of property by fire, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on June 8, 2020, his office filed a federal criminal complaint against Jeremiah Belen (age: 38) of Milwaukee. The complaint charges Belen with aiming a laser beam at aircraft, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 39A. If convicted, Belen would face a maximum of 5 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Oak Grove, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for distributing the heroin that resulted in the overdose death of an Arizona man visiting his family in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: A Macomb County hearing aid dealer pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Detroit on charges of Conspiracy to Commit Health Care Fraud, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today. This follows the conviction on the same charge on March 18, 2020, of a hearing aid salesman who worked for the dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael J. Truesdail, 39, of Montour Falls, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to possession of child pornography involving prepubescent minors. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
