News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A man with citizenship in Lebanon and the United States was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for child exploitation offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: FBI Phoenix Issues First ‘Seeking Information’ Poster in Navajo Language.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Christopher Steven Ledbetter, 29, of McLoud, Oklahoma, has pled guilty to unlawfully possessing a fully automatic machinegun, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Five individuals were indicted Thursday for the burglary of a Vacaville gun shop, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Winnemucca, Nev - With the lifting of public health and safety restrictions enacted by Nevada government officials, the BLM Humboldt River Field Office (HRFO) is restoring access to the Canyon Recreation Area (WCRA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Alfredo Esparza, Jr., 49, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 60 months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Esparza serve four years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Esparza pleaded guilty to the charge on January 9, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Gregory Clive Burke (57, Mims) to 18 years in federal prison for enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. Burke, a registered sex offender who was on state probation after a previous conviction for possession of child pornography, was indicted by a grand jury on Dec. 20, 2018. He had pleaded guilty on Nov. 21, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: [Natchez, Mississippi] - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Natchez National Historical Park is increasing recreational access and services. 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 26, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani sentenced Raheem Marrow, age 48, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, to 75 months’ imprisonment and a six-year term of supervised release for heroin trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Defendant was on federal supervised release at time of crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Deonte Turner, 28, Fitchburg, Wisconsin was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 37 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a loaded firearm as a felon. Turner pleaded guilty to this charge on Dec. 27, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Took Pain Meds from an Unconscious Patient’s IV.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was indicted yesterday in connection with brandishing a loaded sawed-off shotgun in an apartment while arguing with teenaged residents in December 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Today, leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar expressing concerns about the Trump Administration’s termination of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant awarded...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced that, on June 25, 2020, he issued a one-count information charging John La Fave (age: 70) with wire fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343, and that La Fave has entered into an agreement to plead guilty to the charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA-For the second straight year, murders, robberies and aggravated assaults in Missoula County have decreased as law enforcement continues investigating and prosecuting methamphetamine trafficking, firearms offenses and armed robberies through Project Safe Neighborhoods, announced federal, state and local prosecutors today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN- Jaime Walsh, 53, has been charged in an eight-count federal indictment for multiple forms of fraud, including wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, and fraudulent claims against the government. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Chinese Citizen Convicted of Economic Espionage, Theft of Trade Secrets, and Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Angelica O. Preti, 45, of Ontario, Canada, was sentenced in U.S. District Court here today to 18 months in prison for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) by illegally exporting gas turbine engine parts from the United States to Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A Virginia man, who allegedly transmitted a threat via interstate commerce to kill a United States Senator, was arrested yesterday in Virginia Beach on a federal criminal complaint. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven A. Sund made the announcement today following the defendant’s initial court appearance this afternoon.
