News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: Gary Jones, the former President of the international United Auto Workers union, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with other high-level UAW officials to embezzle over $1 million of UAW dues money, to further racketeering activity, and to evade taxes announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: Lovell, WY - Following guidance from state and local public health authorities and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and in consultation with the Crow Tribe, Bighorn Canyon is increasing recreational access. The National Park Service (NPS) is working service wide 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 3, 2020
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Tysheen Gott, age 43, of Wilkes-Barre, PA; Damien Julmal Navarro, age 25, of Wilkes-Barre, PA; Robert Thompson, age 44, of Pittston, PA; Jean Almonor, age 44, of Wilkes-Barre, PA; Amanda McPhillips...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - The U.S. Department of Justice today announced nearly $400 million in grant funding through the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The Attorney General announced funding awards to 596 law enforcement agencies across the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Three Florida men have been charged in a conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine after authorities discovered and seized a shipment with nearly $2 million worth of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: On Tuesday, demolition crews began razing Han Gil Hotel Town, the drug-infested Dallas motel at the center of a 23-defendant drug trafficking probe, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A Stockton man was arrested on Tuesday and charged with production and distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS- A Fort Belknap man convicted of assaulting and strangling a woman in Lodge Pole, on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, last year was sentenced today to 28 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - A forfeiture complaint was filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska alleging that assets equivalent to more than $20 million are subject to forfeiture based on violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and federal money laundering statutes.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: Sullivan’s Island, SC - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park (NHP) is increasing additional recreational access. The National Park Service (NPS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - One of two defendants who committed a string of violent convenience store robberies in Albany in 2016, shooting and injuring two clerks, was sentenced to prison for his crime, announced Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that Carlos Garcia Rivero, 45, of Mt. Morris, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 28 grams or more of crack cocaine and 500 grams or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 108 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn - June 3, 2020 - A criminal complaint issued today charged Wesley Somers, 25, of Hendersonville, Tennessee, with malicious destruction of property using fire or explosives, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced today that Kevin E. McKinney, a/k/a K-Born, 42, of Elmira, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, 50 grams of methamphetamine. The charge carries a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a fine of up to $10,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Julie M. Wheeler, a federal defendant that reportedly fell into the New River Gorge National River from the Grandview overlook on Sunday, May 31, 2020, was found hiding in a closet at her Beaver home yesterday. Both Wheeler and her husband, Rodney Wheeler, were arrested by the West Virginia...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - One of two defendants who committed a string of violent convenience store robberies in Albany in 2016, shooting and injuring two clerks, was sentenced to prison for his crime, announced Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - It’s a boy, boy, and girl!.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: Mike Hurst and Chad Lamar, United States Attorneys for the Southern and Northern Districts of Mississippi, respectively, and Michelle Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jackson Field Office, announced today that their offices have been working with other federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn - June 3, 2020 - A criminal complaint issued today charged Wesley Somers, 25, of Hendersonville, Tennessee, with malicious destruction of property using fire or explosives, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit, Michigan man was sentenced to 15 months in prison for selling heroin in Huntington, West Virginia, according to United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Paul Cunningham, 44, previously pled guilty to selling heroin and admitted that in 2016 he sold heroin to a confidential informant three times in Huntington.
