News from May 2020
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: Texas Man Sentenced to 60 Years in Prison for Sexually Abusing a Child in Hundreds of Videos and Images.
By USDA Newswire | May 12, 2020
Release: Posted by Gail Keirn. APHIS Legislative and Public Affairs. 970-266-6007Jason Suckow of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has been named director of the National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC), headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado. NWRC is ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: FBI Washington Field Office Announces $1 Million Reward for Information About Those Responsible for the 2012 Kidnapping of Caitlan Coleman and Her Family.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - Ojay Smith, 33, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to 48 months in prison for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. He appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. who also ordered Smith to pay $22,327.80 in restitution to the victims.
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management’s Arctic District Office today announced the closure of winter overland tundra travel for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) effective at 12:01 a.m., May 15, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Today, the Justice Department announced that the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) and the Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) have awarded more than $61 million in grant funding to support the Attorney General’s Operation Relentless...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - In honor of National Police Week, U.S. Attorney Lawrence Keefe of the.
By USDA Newswire | May 12, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, May 12, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced Ohio has been approved to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), a new program authorized by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), signed by President Trump, which provides assistance to families of children eligible for free or reduced-price meals dealing with school closures.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: Funding from Operation Relentless Pursuit. KANSAS CITY, KAN. - The Kansas City, Kan., Police Department will receive a $1.3 million federal grant for hiring police officers under the Justice Department’s Operation Relentless Pursuit initiative, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today. The grant...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: A man from Water Valley, Texas, was sentenced today to serve 60 years in prison for producing hundreds of videos and images of himself sexually abusing a child, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A convicted felon who escaped from a Macon halfway house in 2019 was sentenced to serve one year in federal prison, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Aaron Scarborough, 38, of Columbus, Georgia pleaded guilty to one count of escape and was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Marc Treadwell. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Raleigh man was sentenced to 55 months in prison for a felon in possession of a firearm charge.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. -A New York resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges involving heroin and fentanyl trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: Along with the Justice Department, Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) and the Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance have awarded more than $61 million in grant funding to support the Attorney General’s Operation Relentless Pursuit (ORP) initiative.
By USDA Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint against So Ono Food Products LLC. The company, operating from Hawaii, allegedly failed to make payment promptly to seven produce sellers in the amount of $1,344,994 from March 2018 through March 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, Missouri - A federal grand jury in Cape Girardeau, Missouri indicted Nicholas J. Proffitt, 42, for his conduct in connection with the April 24, 2020 fire at the Cape Girardeau Islamic Center. The indictment charges Proffitt with damaging religious property because of the property’s religious character, using fire to commit a federal felony, and damaging a building used in interstate commerce through the use of fire.
By DOL Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: LULING, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Alexander Tank Company - a manufacturer of steel storage tanks based in Luling, Texas - for exposing employees to amputation, confined spaces and other safety hazards. The company faces $234,528 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady today announced that the Department of Justice has awarded the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, $676,895 in DOJ grants to purchase supplies that are essential for responding to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Patrick Michael McHenry, 28, of Sacramento, California, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 36 months in prison for possession of an unregistered firearm, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered McHenry to serve three years of supervised release following his prison sentence. McHenry pleaded guilty to the charge on Sept. 18, 2019.
By USDA Newswire | May 12, 2020
Release: The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing a final rule amending the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) licensing requirements for all regulated animals, as well as certain veterinary care standards.These new regulations will promote compliance, ...
