News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has indicted a Scioto County man and several of his family members and associates with charges related to a child sex trafficking operation. The man allegedly exchanged drugs obtained in Columbus and elsewhere for sexual access to the children of drug-addicted mothers.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: France. Overview: France remained a key partner of the United States in international CT efforts in 2019. It is a longstanding and important member of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. France continued to conduct important CT operations in Iraq, Libya, Mali, Syria and the Sahel region, as well as...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Peru. Overview: Peru successfully hosted the Pan American and Parapan American Games in 2019, with 8,500 athletes competing over 38 days across 20 venues - unprecedented in scale and duration. The U.S. government coordinated with Peruvian security services to provide security support to U.S. athletes...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, resident was sentenced in federal court today for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - A Wake Forest man pleaded guilty today to theft and embezzlement from a credit union.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Niger. Overview: Niger faces terrorist threats on five of its seven national borders. The Government of Niger (GoN) remains committed to denying terrorists safe haven within its territory. It cooperated with its neighbors and with international partners, including INTERPOL, and is a member of the Global...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) filed a detainer June 19 on a Mexican national accused of child rape and aggravated sexual assault on a child.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Belgium. Overview: Belgium continues to make incremental improvements to CT-related policy, information-sharing practices, and resource allotments, which have enhanced authorities’ abilities to investigate and prevent terrorist attacks. Belgium actively shares terrorist and criminal information with ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell Marks Fifth Anniversary.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Hakeem Burnett, 30, of Jackson, pled guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Henry T. Wingate to possessing a firearm after having been previously convicted of a felony crime, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Cameroon. Overview: In 2019, Cameroon experienced a resurgence of terrorist activity in the Far North Region. While the Government of Cameroon attributed most terrorist attacks to BH, ISIS-WA likely perpetrated a significant number of assaults. A December 11 Amnesty International report stated that 275...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Eastern Maine Development Corporation, Bangor, Maine, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Brazil. Overview: Brazil and the United States maintained strong counterterrorism cooperation in 2019, building on collaborative efforts underway since the 2016 Summer Olympics. The Brazilian Federal Police (PF), Brazil’s lead counterterrorism agency, worked closely with the United States and other nations’...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Austria. Overview: U.S.-Austrian law enforcement cooperation remained strong. Parliament ended its ad-hoc probe of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism (BVT), Austria’s key counterterrorism agency within the Ministry of the Interior. The parliamentary inquiry ...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Greece. Overview: The Greek government remained a collaborative CT partner in 2019. The Greek Parliament passed legislation to criminalize terrorist travel and the provision of material support to terrorists. Following Greece’s first comprehensive national assessment of money laundering and terrorist...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: South Africa. Overview: South Africa saw a decrease in suspected terrorism-related incidents in 2019, following an unusually high number of incidents in 2018. ISIS facilitation networks and cells remained a threat, after being first publicly acknowledged by the South African government in 2016. Regional...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Philippines. Overview: The Philippine government adapted its military, law enforcement, and counter-radicalization efforts to address shifting threats from terrorist groups that continued to operate primarily in the country’s South. The Philippines continued to cooperate with the United States, notably...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Venezuela. Overview: On Jan. 10, 2019, Nicolás Maduro sought to begin an illegitimate second term as president, following 2018 presidential elections that were widely condemned as fraudulent. Juan Guaidó, as president of the National Assembly (AN), invoked the Venezuelan constitution on January 23...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Algeria. Overview: The United States and Algeria built on their CT partnership through regular dialogue and exchanges of technical expertise. Algeria continued its significant efforts to prevent terrorist activity within its borders and remains a difficult operating environment for terrorist groups.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Afghanistan. Overview: The United States partners with Afghanistan in a bilateral CT effort through Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. The U.S. military, along with 38 other Coalition nations, also supports the ANDSF through the NATO Resolute Support “Train, Advise, and Assist" mission. In 2019, the Taliban...
