News from June 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
Release: SEATTLE - Officers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport have detected three loaded firearms in travelers’ carry-on luggage since Thursday during the routine X-ray screening at the security checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: OAKLAND - Scott A. Wilson was arrested today in connection with a complaint unsealed in Oakland alleging that he defrauded the Operating Engineers Local Union No. 3, based in Alameda, California, of approximately $4.5 million, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John L. Bennett, and U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Quentin Heiden.
By DOE 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: BOISE - Jonathan Schmidt, 41, of Boise, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 78 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Schmidt to pay a $2,000 fine and serve 20 years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Schmidt pleaded guilty to the charge on Feb. 21, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Stetson Shane Barnes, 28, of Loving, New Mexico, Donald Alfred Busch, 32, of Carlsbad, New Mexico, Jehra Lynn Hedgecock, 31, of Carlsbad, New Mexico, and Tyson Lee Terrell, 36, of Carlsbad, New Mexico, appeared in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico during the course of this week ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JESUS SEGUINOT, also known as “Chuchi," 30, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for drug distribution and gun possession offenses.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: Washington - Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) forged a new partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) by signing the National Programmatic Agreement among the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Programs, National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation for Sequencing Section 106 (USDA-RD NPA).
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: NICARAGUA: Tier 3. The Government of Nicaragua does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; therefore, Nicaragua was downgraded to Tier 3. Despite the lack of significant efforts, the government took some steps to address...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: BARBADOS: Tier 2 Watch List. The Government of Barbados does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. These efforts included completing an anti-trafficking manual on assisting and interviewing victims, formally reinstating the...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: CYPRUS: Tier 1. The Government of the Republic of Cyprus fully meets the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. The government continued to demonstrate serious and sustained efforts during the reporting period; therefore Cyprus remained on Tier 1. These efforts included amending laws to ...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Tier 2 Watch List.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: The Western District of Michigan’s Local Hotline Continues as a Supplement to the New Portal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that a Washington man has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in a long-running scheme in which he and his criminal associates developed distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnets. The defendant used the botnets to facilitate DDoS attacks, which occur when multiple computers acting in unison flood targeted computers with information to prevent them from being able to access the internet.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: THAILAND: Tier 2. The Government of Thailand does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period; therefore Thailand remained on Tier 2.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: MALDIVES: Tier 2 Watch List. The Government of Maldives does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. These efforts included convicting two individuals for trafficking-related offenses, convening the National Anti-Trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell Coleman today announced that a federal grand jury has indicted a man for attempting to rob a pharmacy during civil unrest in Louisville. This indictment is additive to multiple charges recently announced by the United States Attorney’s Office for the looting of neighborhood pharmacies for controlled substances, carjacking, and illegal possession of firearms by convicted felons.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
Release: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Tier 2. The Government of the Central African Republic (CAR) does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period;...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: Concord, NH - Last night, this week’s featured “Fugitive of the Week," Henry Edward Woods, 36 years-of-age, surrendered at the Berlin police Department. Woods was being sought on multiple outstanding arrest warrants including; a parole violation warrant on an underlying charge of aggravated assault with...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee was re-sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for sexually exploiting a child, using USPS computers to access child pornography and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Malden man was arrested today and charged with using stolen identities to make purchases, rent cars and open credit accounts.
