News from June 2020
By USDA Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
Release: Washington, D.C., June 2, 2020 - The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) today announced the first confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) infection in a pet dog (German shepherd) in New York state. This is the first ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JERMAINE FOSTER, 49, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall to 20 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: The 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), with more than $4.5 million going to agencies in the Southern District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former United States Postal Service (USPS) employee was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for stealing approximately $7,000 in government money.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. sentenced Joseph Cecil Vandevere, 53, of Black Mountain, N.C. today to ten months in prison and one year of supervised release for using social media to communicate interstate threats, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney Office for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Cogburn allowed Vandevere to self-report to the federal Bureau of Prisons upon designation of a federal facility.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah -The Bureau of Land Management recently acquired approximately 40 acres within the boundaries of the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve and the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area (NCA) in Washington County, Utah for $1.7 million. The BLM acquired this parcel with funds derived from oil and gas leasing on the outer continental shelf through the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: A man who brandished an assault rifle at a Black Lives Matter protest in Lubbock on Saturday has been charged with making interstate threats, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Velasco, a fugitive from justice, was arrested with a stolen pistol and ammunition after trying to run from the police.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Remy Martin Lopez, 35, of Rochester, pleaded guilty in federal court to unlawfully possessing a firearm, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah-1, today led a bicameral letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue encouraging them to finalize rulemakings that will modernize and simplify regulations governing the domestic production of locatable minerals.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: MILLS, Wyo. - The Wyoming Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation, in partnership with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), will perform road reconstruction on the Boysen Dam Road and the access road which runs between the dam and the Upper Wind River Campground.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky.- The 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 nation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander today sentenced Timothy Herndon, age 29, of Owings Mills, Maryland, to eight years in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - The 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 nation...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area is increasing recreational access. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide 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 2, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Two individuals have been charged with federal firearm offenses for allegedly illegally possessing loaded handguns in downtown Chicago this past weekend.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: As I said in the wake of the despicable hate crimes committed in Jersey City last December, we are confronting problems in this state and this country that I cannot believe we are still facing at this point in our history. I emphatically reject the idea that violence is the solution to those problems.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) recognizes that travel restrictions, group gathering restrictions, and public and private closures require a moratorium on the release of solicitations for concession contract and leases through the end of July. Waivers are possible. See the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Missouri, man was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison without parole in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Jasper County, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of the Bronx borough of New York City pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to drug trafficking in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
