News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE RESTREPO, also known as “Crack Baby," 38, of East Hartford, was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging him with distributing fentanyl and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced DUSTIN LEE BISHOP, 32, of Raleigh, NC to 120 months’ imprisonment, followed by an eight-year term of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) is taking extraordinary steps to implement the latest guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), and local and state authorities to promote social distancing. The NPS is modifying operations until further notice for facilities and programs that cannot adhere to this guidance. Where it is possible to adhere to this guidance, outdoor spaces will remain open to the public.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: San Diego, CA- Cabrillo National Monument is announcing modifications to operations to implement the latest guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), and local and state authorities to promote social distancing. As of Tuesday March 17, at 5 p.m., the Cabrillo National...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: BOULDER CITY, NEV. - Today, the Bureau of Reclamation temporarily suspended public visitation to Hoover Dam. Because of the nature of the structure and in accordance with the social distancing standards recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hoover Dam will be temporarily closed...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Parker Police Department Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Xuehua (Edward) Peng a/k/a Edward Peng was sentenced today to 48 months in prison and ordered to pay a $30,000 fine for acting as an agent of the People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) in connection with a scheme to conduct pickups known as “dead drops" and transport...
By State Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement after China announced plans to kick American journalists out of the country.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Senator Kirsten...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced that Sugarlands, Oconaluftee, and Cades Cove Visitor Centers are closed until further notice. Following guidance from the CDC and recommendations from state and local public health in consultation with NPS Public Health Service officers, these facilities...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: As a community and a nation, we come together in times of crisis. Ironically, when it comes to COVID-19, our unification is best done in a metaphorical rather than literal sense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Oil City, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children and violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: Tucson, AZ - Following guidance from the White House, CDC, the recommendations from local and state public health authorities, and in consultation with the NPS Public Health Service Officers, Saguaro National Park will be temporarily closing the Rincon Mountain Visitor Center in the park’s east district, the Red Hills Visitor Center in the park’s west district, and suspending all public programming beginning Tuesday, March 17.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - William John Clark, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was indicted today on firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: MARSHALL, Texas - U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown announced today that three individuals have been arrested pursuant to a federal indictment charging them with drug and firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Emily W. Allen (619) 546-9738; Mark Conover (619) 546-6763 and Phillip L.B. Halpern (619) 546-6964.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Terrell Armstead, 29, of Baltimore, Maryland, was convicted on Monday of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Shea, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Washington Field Office’s Criminal Division Timothy M. Dunham, and Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department Peter Newsham.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: [Hot Springs, AR] Hot Springs National Park is announcing modifications to operations to implement the latest guidance from the White House, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), and local and state authorities to promote social distancing. As of March 18, 2020, the Fordyce Bathhouse Visitor...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: Today, the National Park Service announced the temporary closing of the Visitor Center operations at Ninety Six National Historic Site, effective Wednesday, March 18, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Aston Wood, 56, New Richmond, Wisconsin and Miami, Florida, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 12 years in federal prison for a mortgage rescue scheme that defrauded more than 70 Wisconsin homeowners. Wood pleaded guilty to wire fraud and bankruptcy fraud on January 6, 2020.
