News from May 2020
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Ajo, AZ - Due to increased fire danger in southern Arizona, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (OPCNM) will increase fire restrictions throughout the Monument, beginning Friday, May 15, 2020. These restrictions coincide with similar restrictions going into effect on other public lands in southern Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Tyndall, South Dakota, man and a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of an Unregistered Firearm. The man has further been indicted for Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Three Murders Occurred on the Street, at Kissena Park and on an Elevated Subway Platform in Queens.

By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Defendant faces 15-year mandatory minimum sentence.

By State Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Republican Leader on the House Foreign Affairs Committee released the following statement applauding the Trump Administration’s Executive Order to further domestic production of strategic resources necessary to respond to the Covid-19 outbreak...
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, AK - Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is announcing additional modifications to operations to support federal, state, and local efforts to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

By USDA Newswire | May 14, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Gerald Fitzgerald Hunter, 54, a fugitive in a fentanyl and cocaine distribution conspiracy in St. Louis, was arrested in Los Angeles this week.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - Patrick Fitzgerald Franklin, 21, of St. Louis, and Jacquez Trayvon Love, 22, of St. Louis, were charged by a federal complaint today. Franklin was charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A law enforcement officer from Texas pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to sexual exploitation of a minor and cyberstalking charges.

By Homeland Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A Northwest Arkansas man was sentenced to five years in federal prison May 12 for receipt of child pornography, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations Fayetteville and the Northwest Arkansas Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Four complaints were unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn variously charging 10 members and associates of the Indios Locos Salvatruchas clique of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, with murder in-aid-of racketeering, attempted murder, murder conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Charleroi, PA, has pleaded guilty to federal narcotics charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Charleroi, PA, has pleaded guilty to federal narcotics charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that a joint team of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers arrested eight individuals who have all been charged, along with four others, in federal court for their roles in a drug trafficking organization that operated in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Ochopee, FL - An early tropical system could bring help in tamping down the Moon Fish Wildfire. This system should bring some beneficial rain to southern Florida Friday and Saturday. The water levels in Big Cypress National Preserve are quite low due to weeks of dry weather and below average rainfall.

By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A local physician has agreed to pay the United States $450,000 to resolve allegations that he falsely signed home health certifications and plans of care in exchange for money, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Dr. Maaz Abbasi, 41, also agreed to a three-year period of exclusion from participation in any federal health care program.

By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Martin Sheehan, 27, of Nashua, pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to fentanyl trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.

By DOL Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued an alert listing safety tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus in the car service industry.

By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Senate Unanimously Passes Holocaust Education Bill