News from June 2020
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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Unintended consequences of social distancing and isolation throughout the COVID-19 pandemic can include increased substance use, experimentation and even relapse for those in treatment and recovery. To help people find support facilities, the Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division, along with community partners, has launched a website that pulls together resources for St. Louis Metro residents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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: Justin E. Herdman, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced today that Jayvon Wynne, age 25, of Toledo, has been sentenced to a term of 240 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to federal charges including drug conspiracy, possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Brandon Eric Navarrete, 27, of Reno, was arraigned in federal court today on an indictment charging him for allegedly unlawfully possessing, receiving, and distributing approximately 17,000 images and videos of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 132,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County man today admitted his role in a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in government funds using fraudulently procured electronic benefits transfer (EBT) cards, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
Release: All of us in Biotechnology Regulatory Services (BRS) hope you and yours are doing well during these difficult days. As we have been monitoring the rapidly changing nature of COVID-19, we want you to know that like you, we are doing our best to navigate this new reality. We wanted to reach out with an ...
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 State Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Timothy Pounds is a member of the Senior Foreign Service and currently Deputy Coordinator for Regional Affairs in the Bureau of Counterterrorism. He served three years as the Director in NEA’s Office for Arabian Peninsula Affairs. Before that he was Director of the Egypt Office and Acting Deputy Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Tulsa, Oklahoma-based contractor the Ross Group Construction Corporation (Ross Group), and its corporate affiliates, have agreed to pay over $2.8 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by improperly obtaining federal set-aside contracts reserved for disadvantaged small businesses, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: United States Attorneys Brandon J. Fremin, Middle District of Louisiana, David C. Joseph, Western District of Louisiana, and Peter G. Strasser, Eastern District of Louisiana, jointly announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in Louisiana are joining federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies in their efforts to preserve Louisiana citizens’ rights to free speech and assembly while protecting our communities from violence and destruction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - The Department of Justice today announced $6,322,750 in grant funding through the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP) to eight Maryland law enforcement agencies. The Attorney General announced funding awards totaling...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that YAMIL DIAZ, 48, last residing in Waterbury, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By USDA Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
Release: Over the last six years, the Huanglongbing Multiagency Coordination (HLB MAC) Group, led by USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), has invested nearly $47 million to support critical research and development projects aimed at creating tools that could help the U.S. citrus industry ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Federal Court Issues Temporary Restraining Order Against Man Offering Fraudulent Coronavirus Treatments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: The Defendant Trafficked Methamphetamine While on Probation for State Criminal Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Nebraska man today admitted engaging in fraudulent activity that exposed his employer’s confidential information, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Nebraska man today admitted engaging in fraudulent activity that exposed his employer’s confidential information, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Huntington Beach, California, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on May 11, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
