News from May 2020
By Homeland Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: Dear Vice President Pence and Secretary Azar...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: Potential Victims Can Contact the U.S. Attorney’s Office Directly.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: The COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights the Service and Sacrifice of Law Enforcement Officers at All Levels.
By USDA Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the availability of $900,000 for local governments to host a Community Compost and Food Waste Reduction (CCFWR) pilot project for fiscal year (FY) 2020. The cooperative agreements will support projects that develop and test strategies...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas David Clay Fowlkes, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Diane Upchurch of the FBI Little Rock Field Office, announced today that Simon Saw-Teong Ang...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: In honor of National Police Week, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider will recognize the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement. The week will be observed Sunday, May 10 through Saturday, May 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: SIOUX FALLS - In honor of National Police Week, U.S. Attorney Ron Parsons will recognize the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement. The week will be observed Sunday, May 10 through Saturday, May 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - In honor of National Police Week, United States Attorney William M. McSwain recognizes and celebrates the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement. The week will be observed Sunday, May 10 through Saturday, May 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - In honor of National Police Week, U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst recognizes and honors the service and sacrifice of our federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement. The week will be observed Sunday, May 10, through Saturday, May 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, man, Joe G. Peavler, 53, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison on Monday, by Chief U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves, after previously admitting to committing wire fraud and assisting in the preparation of a false income tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - In honor of National Police Week, U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez joins the Department of Justice in recognizing the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement. This year’s observance will take place from Sunday, May 10 through Saturday, May 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: Virtual Candlelight Vigil Scheduled for May 13 at 7:00 p.m. (CDT).
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - In observance of National Police Week, U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray honors federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officers for their courage and service, and pays tribute to the brave officers who lost their lives in the line of duty. The week will be observed Sunday, May 10 through Saturday, May 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: University of Arkansas Professor Arrested for Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell Coleman is today announcing his appointment of Frank Dahl as a federal prosecutor in the Louisville, Kentucky-based U.S. Attorney’s Office which serves the 53 counties and nearly 2.5 million people of the Western District of Kentucky.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: MONTE VISTA, Colo. - Current and forecasted weather, coupled with exceptionally dry conditions have prompted the BLM’s San Luis Valley Field Office to implement fire restrictions on BLM-managed lands in five counties in southern Colorado. Stage 1 fire restrictions will go into effect Tuesday May 12, 2020 on all BLM lands in Alamosa, Rio Grande, Conejos, Costilla, and Saguache counties.
By DOE Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, recently sent a letter requesting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Department of the Interior (DOI) combine efforts to allocate personal protective equipment (PPE) and rapid COVID-19 tests for federal wildland fire crews.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - As National Police Week kicked off May 10, officers at Lake Mead National Recreation Area responded to more than 80 incidents, including two capsized vessels.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that a Gresham, Oregon man has been charged with illegally purchasing, importing, and offering for sale chloroquine, the active pharmaceutical ingredient in prescription drugs used to treat malaria.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Friday, May 8, 2020, Calvin Lee Morris, a 34-year-old man from Banks, Alabama, was sentenced to 40 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Following his prison sentence, Morris will be on supervised release for three years. There is no parole in the federal system.
