News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Brian Bartels of suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was charged today with obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder in the City of Pittsburgh over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bartels allegedly initiated the damage to a police car outside of PPG Paints Arena, including spraying painting the car and smashing its windshield. After others joined him, the car was set on fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, man previously convicted of multiple felony offenses including robbery, burglary, and aggravated assault today admitted possessing fraudulent law enforcement credentials and unlawfully possessing a handgun, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on June 4, 2020, his office filed a federal criminal complaint against Tyshaun T. Smith (age: 26) of Milwaukee. The complaint charges Smith with attempted arson of a Boost Mobile store at 949 North 27th Street in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Petr Kostenetskiy, age 21, of Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on June 2, 2020, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to thirty-six months’ imprisonment to be followed by two years of supervised release for armed bank robbery.
By State Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today released the following statement on reporting about President Trump’s reckless decision to drawdown U.S. forces from Germany.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - In a federal criminal complaint issued yesterday, a Richlands, Va. man, who appeared at a health clinic with severe injuries to his hands and fingers, is charged with lying to federal investigators about how he was injured and whether or not he possessed explosives. United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Seeks to Shut Down Fraudulent Chicagoland Tax Return Business.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited CJM Roofing Inc. - based in West Palm, Florida - for exposing employees to fall and other hazards at three residential worksites in Jensen Beach and Port St. Lucie, Florida. The contractor faces penalties totaling $199,711.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics May 2020 jobs report which shows the unemployment rate at 13.3 percent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Benjamin Joseph Butler, 39, of Gulfport, entered a guilty plea yesterday before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Eliot Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, and Rep. Joaquin Castro, the Chairman of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Christopher Steven Ledbetter, 29, of McLoud, Oklahoma, has been arrested and charged with unlawfully possessing a fully automatic machinegun, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - One defendant was sentenced to federal prison and another pled guilty today for their participation in a drug trafficking organization operating between California and Raleigh County, West Virginia, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, man previously convicted of multiple felony offenses including robbery, burglary, and aggravated assault today admitted possessing fraudulent law enforcement credentials and unlawfully possessing a handgun, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man who pleaded guilty to two counts of Importation of Controlled Substances, heroin and fentanyl, was sentenced on June 4, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: Collection included images and videos of children as young as infants and toddlers.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: Republican Leader of the Committee on Education and Labor, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report that includes several recommendations the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) should take to address long-standing failures to meet the needs of students with disabilities...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: FBI Assisting in Search for Missing Teenager in Alcorn County in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA-A Bozeman woman who worked as a bookkeeper for several businesses admitted this week to embezzling about $433,018 from the companies, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - One defendant was sentenced to federal prison and another pled guilty today for their participation in a drug trafficking organization operating between California and Raleigh County, West Virginia, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
