News from May 2020
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: An Oklahoma marijuana distributor made an initial appearance in federal court today for allegedly soliciting a woman to molest her 11-year-old child in exchange for help with living expenses, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: An Evans man has been indicted for possessing child pornography during a virtual session of the U.S. District Court grand jury necessitated by precautions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Branden Coluccio, 32, of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 37 months in prison for conspiracy to commit health care fraud. As part of his sentence, he was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $3,070,157...
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, Representative Paul Gosar and BLM State Director Raymond Suazo meet with representatives from ASARCO.
By EPA Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent a letter to White House Coronavirus...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been arrested on a federal complaint charging him with selling fentanyl-laced heroin on the city’s Southwest Side.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - United States Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger today announced that various jurisdictions across the Eastern District of Virginia have recently been awarded over $972,500 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19.
By DOL Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: Following the introduction of bipartisan legislation to create a “safe harbor" for independent contract workers in the sharing economy as we combat COVID-19, Republican Leader of the Committee on Education and Labor, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued this statement...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Eike Blohm, 38, of South Burlington, Vermont, was charged by criminal complaint in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, with one count of production of child pornography, and one count of possession of child...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that four defendants have been charged and arrested in connection with a smash and grab burglary at the Eagles Nest Armory, a gun store in Arvada. The defendants were charged with conspiracy to receive, possess, conceal, store, or sell, a stolen...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Roanoke Rapids man was sentenced today to 262 months imprisonment for being a felon in possession of a firearm during a March 23, 2018 shooting incident.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2020
News Release: He Was Ordered to Pay Over $1 Million to Medicare and Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder and U.S. Marshal Rob Heun today issued the following statements in support of the Alaska Department of Public Safety’s (DPS) initiative to enhance 911 services in rural Alaska.
By Homeland Newswire | May 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced a bipartisan bill to provide greater assistance to communities facing ongoing disaster response challenges from the Coronavirus pandemic, severe flooding or other disasters...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Kayden James Billings (22, Oxford) with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. If convicted, Billings faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-An Arizona man was sentenced today to 132 months in federal prison for his involvement in a fentanyl conspiracy that took him through Russellville, Arkansas. Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced that Herbierto Felix Ruiz, 48, was sentenced for conspiracy to possess fentanyl with intent to distribute.
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2020
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: Severe shoreline erosion along Lake Michigan and the need for social distancing due to the Covid 19 Pandemic will make for a very different beach season this summer at Indiana Dunes National Park. To assist the public in finding an open beach and one that has available parking, the National Park Service will provide a Beach Parking Information Line.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A man identified as a member of the Heath Street Gang pleaded guilty today to charges of distributing crack cocaine in a public housing development.
By State Newswire | May 21, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement about President Trump’s planned withdrawal of the United States from the Open Skies Treaty...
By USDA Newswire | May 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 21, 2020 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) today announced additional progress in the implementation of the agriculture-related provisions of the U.S.-China Phase One Economic and Trade Agreement (The Agreement), which entered ...
