News from June 2020
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: BOSTON - A Springfield man was charged yesterday with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: Erie, Pa. - A federal criminal complaint was filed today charging Melquan Barnett, 28, of Erie, Pennsylvania, with malicious destruction of property using fire or explosives. After a May 30, 2020 gathering of protesters was hijacked, Barnett allegedly set a fire at Ember + Forge, a coffee shop located at 401 State Street in Erie, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Reserve man who admitted shooting another man in the face with a.22-caliber rifle on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in 2018 was sentenced today to 46 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was charged today with tax evasion, corrupt interference with the administration of the Internal Revenue laws, and failure to file a federal tax return, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Garrith Bitsilly, 33, of Newcomb, New Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque on June 1 to a charge of abusive sexual contact in Indian Country.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-IL), and Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Ranking Member Rick Crawford (R-AR) made the following joint statement in response to today’s release of Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio’s surface transportation reauthorization bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today that Ahmaud Rodriguez pleaded guilty to transporting an illegal alien. Rodriguez will be sentenced at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The principal and co-founder of a North Andover mortgage short sale assistance company pleaded guilty today in connection with defrauding mortgage lenders and investors out of nearly $500,000 in proceeds from about 90 short sale transactions.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Reclamation’s Montana Area Office is increasing overnight recreational access to managed sites at Canyon Ferry. The Bureau of Reclamation is working...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: DALLAS - 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 DEA Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas Field Division Eduardo A. Chávez and U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
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 DOL Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, voted against advancing three Trump Administration nominees for critical worker protection agencies who have records of fighting against workers. At a HELP...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Christopher Joe Stamper, 28, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty to 20 years in federal prison and 10 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography. Stamper is also required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - Devante Coffie, 19, of Valley Park, Missouri, was charged by a federal complaint with stealing 32 handguns and two long guns at the Southside Pawn Shop. Coffie will appear in court on June 4, 2020, for his initial appearance in front of U.S. Magistrate Patricia Cohen.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Committee Democrats expressed their opposition to the Trump Administration’s intent to pursue an expanded economic partnership with Brazil under the leadership of President Jair Bolsonaro. In a letter to Ambassador...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: Arrested in Iowa for OWI More Than Six Years after Absconding from ICE Supervision While Awaiting Deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: Brian John Scalabrino Embezzled $348,365 from His Former Employer, Metal Standard Corporation of Holland.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today ongoing congressionally mandated contract conversions pursuant to the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act). Today’s release includes one draft repayment contract for Myers-Marsh Mutual Water Company for a 60-day public comment period. This is one of over 86 repayment contract conversions requested by federal Central Valley Project contractors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Theodore Loria, 53, of Irondequoit, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to cyberstalking. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and $250,000 fine.
