News from June 2020
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Argentina. Overview: During 2019, Argentina continued to focus its counterterrorism strategy on the Tri-Border Area (TBA) of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay where suspected terrorism financing networks operate. Robust U.S.-Argentine law enforcement and security cooperation continued in 2019. Argentina...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: GLENNALLEN, Alaska - In compliance with CDC social distancing guidelines to keep community members and employees safe, the Bureau of Land Management Glennallen Field Office has modified its procedures for issuing federal subsistence hunting permits for moose and caribou in Unit 13.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Burkina Faso. Overview: Terrorist activity in Burkina Faso rapidly and significantly increased in 2019, as members of JNIM and ISIS-GS conducted the highest level of targeted political assassination, the largest attack on civilians, the largest attack on Burkinabe security forces, and the largest attack...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: New Allegations Assert Assange Conspired With “Anonymous" Affiliated Hackers, Among Others.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: United Arab Emirates. Overview: The United Arab Emirates government continued to prosecute multiple individuals for terrorism-related offenses in 2019. In line with previous years, the UAE continued its collaboration with U.S. law enforcement on counterterrorism cases; its membership in the Global Coalition...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are seeking public comments to inform the land allotment program for Alaska Native Vietnam-era veterans. The provision was enacted as a part of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, which...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: TAOS, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management will postpone the public scoping meeting on the travel and transportation planning process for the Horsethief Mesa Travel Management Area (TMA). The TMA is north of Arroyo Hondo, N.M., on the east rim of the Rio Grande. The virtual meeting was scheduled for...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News 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: Jordan. Overview: Jordan remained a committed partner on CT in 2019. As a regional leader in the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, Jordan played an important role in Coalition successes in degrading the terrorist group. Jordan continued to face a persistent threat of terrorist activity both domestically...
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 Lewis and Clark Regional Development Council of Mandan, North Dakota, 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: Somalia. Overview: The Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) remained a committed partner of the United States in the ongoing fight against al-Shabaab (AS) and ISIS-Somalia, taking significant steps to implement security sector and other institutional reforms designed to improve its CT capabilities. However,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A former Rocky Mountain Bank loan officer accused of approving loans to a bank customer while at the same time profiting from private, undisclosed loans to the customer today pleaded guilty to fraud crimes, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Ethiopia. Overview: Ethiopia’s political reform process continued in 2019 under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, facilitating even greater counterterrorism cooperation with the United States. The continuing threat of al-Shabaab (AS) and ISIS emanating from Somalia is the Government of Ethiopia’s (GOE’s) core...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, Missouri -United States District Judge Henry E. Autrey sentenced Justin Newkirk, 41, of Raytown, Missouri, to 96 months in prison for possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine while possessing a firearm.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Kyrgyz Republic. Overview: The Kyrgyz Republic’s CT efforts continue to focus on rooting out “extremists," CVE, limiting the flow of Kyrgyz FTFs, and preventing those returning from conflicts abroad from engaging in terrorist activities. While the Kyrgyz Republic is concerned about ISIS, ISIS-K, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Four additional defendants were also charged in Atlantic County, New Jersey in a related investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Jamal Hassan, age 42, of Liverpool, New York, and Saddam Hassan, age 39, of East Syracuse, New York, pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy to traffic in contraband cigarettes, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith. Jamal Hassan also pled guilty to one count of a money laundering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Philadelphia, PA - United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, William M. McSwain, announced that Juan Caceres, leader of a heroin distribution ring and six others were arrested and charged by criminal complaint on charges of possession with intent to distribute various amounts of heroin as associates of the Caceres drug trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A former Rocky Mountain Bank loan officer accused of approving loans to a bank customer while at the same time profiting from private, undisclosed loans to the customer today pleaded guilty to fraud crimes, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas -A 46-year-old federal inmate has been sentenced for escaping from a Bureau of Prisons facility in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
