News from May 2020
By Interior Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: Holbrook, AZ - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Petrified Forest National Park is increasing recreational access and other services through a multi phased approach. The National Park Service (NPS)...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA - An Odessa, Texas man, who had an online relationship with a juvenile female in the Western District of Virginia, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Harrisonburg to cyberstalking and making interstate threats to the girl’s family following her suicide. United State Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and David W. Archey, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division made the announcement today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By Homeland Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Houston, Texas, removed a Salvadoran fugitive Tuesday wanted for aggravated homicide and terrorist organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - On May 19, 2020 a federal grand jury returned a Superseding Indictment charging a Las Vegas couple with numerous charges, including (1) Conspiracy to Commit Health Care Fraud and Wire Fraud, (2) Health Care Fraud, (3) Wire Fraud, (4) False Statements Relating to Health Care Matters, (4)...
By USDA Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, introduced legislation to help protect the food supply after the COVID-19 crisis has put an unprecedented strain on farmers, workers, food banks, and families.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: Adel El Zabayar Allegedly Worked with the Former President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro Moros and Other Prominent Venezuelan Officials to Distribute Cocaine and Weapons In Coordination with Terrorist Organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Nathan Branham, 39, of Cheraw, South Carolina, was arrested on a federal criminal complaint and charged with online coercion and enticement of a minor and transferring obscene material to a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - DEA Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman announced today that Adel El Zabayar was charged in Manhattan federal court with participating in a narco-terrorism conspiracy, a cocaine importation conspiracy, and...
By Homeland Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) is pleased to announce the selection of John Fabbricatore to the Senior Executive Service and to serve as the field office director (FOD) for the Denver Field Office May 26.
By Homeland Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: DETROIT, MI - U.S. Senator Gary Peters, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, last week introduced a bill to provide $20 billion to help states, nursing homes and intermediate care facilities contain the spread of the Coronavirus. To date, more than 20,000 nursing...
By DOE Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) issued a Final Request for Proposals for the Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) procurement at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site, near Idaho Falls, Idaho, and the Fort Saint Vrain facility near Platteville, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, a federal judge sentenced 53-year-old Elton Vallare of San Antonio to 20 years in federal prison for distribution, receipt and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a Charleston man was sentenced to federal prison for escape. Lacy Moore, 40, was sentenced to 12 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release for walking away from Dismas Charities Halfway House in St. Albans...
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Committee Vice Chairman Jimmy Gomez, Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Gerry Connolly, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee Chairman Jamie Raskin, and Committee Member John Sarbanes issued the following statements after introducing legislation to support a fair and accurate 2020 Census in light of the delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Mihran Stepanyan, Artur Stepanyan, Yan German, and Khachig Geuydjian pleaded guilty today to crimes stemming from their respective roles in a wide-ranging racketeering conspiracy involving diversion of prescription drugs, money laundering, bank fraud, identity theft, and additional crimes...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Patrick Valencia, 50, of Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque on May 26 to assault of an intimate partner by strangulation or suffocation in Indian Country.
By DOL Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Jax Utilities Management Inc. for exposing employees to cave-in hazards at a Jacksonville, Florida, worksite. The construction contractor faces $56,405 in penalties.
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: Brady to MSNBC’s Ruhle: “Too many governors are holding those dollars".
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2020
News Release: Indianapolis - U.S. Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that Shelby County Sheriff’s Department received $58,008, and Shelbyville Police Department received $66,830 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19.
