News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Concord, NH - “Fugitive of the Week," Philip Rory Gingras, 46 years-of-age, surrendered late this afternoon at the Merrimack County Sheriff’s Office in Boscawen, NH. Mr. Gingras was being sought on supervised release violations stemming from a conviction on a federal sex offender registration violation which is a violation of the Adam Walsh Act. Gingras is required to register as a sex offender after he was convicted in a 2002 case for aggravated felonious sexual assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Edwin Torres Arenas (49, Oviedo) has pleaded guilty to seven counts of stealing government funds. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison on each count. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Isis Baldwin (38, Poinciana) with three counts of making a false statement to a federal agency. If convicted, Baldwin faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison on each count.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Miami, Florida - U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom has sentenced Matthew Alexander King (23, Miami) to 20 years in federal prison for retaliation against a federal judge and solicitation to commit murder.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Daniel Lipinski (D-IL) announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “Examining the Surface Transportation Board’s Role in Ensuring a Robust Passenger Rail System."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ANTOINE MERCHANT, age 32, and ANTHONY SMALLS, age 32, both of New York, New York, were charged today in a four-count indictment by the Grand Jury in the Eastern District of Louisiana with conspiracy to pass altered U.S. Postal money orders, passing altered U.S. Postal money orders and possessing stolen U.S. government property.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Bribes included $54,000, a Bowflex home gym and a suite at a Boston hotel.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Nov. 13, 2020, Alexander P. Bebris (age: 51) of Denmark, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison Senior United States District Judge William C. Griesbach for distribution of child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: MOUNT PLEASANT, SC - The National Park Service will hold a virtual public meeting to share phase three of the exhibit plans for Charles Pinckney National Historic Site on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020 at 5:00 pm. National Park Service staff and exhibit contractors, the Design Minds, will present the latest draft of the exhibit plan. All are invited to attend.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man who is a previously convicted felon was sentenced today to 75 months in prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition in connection with an incident in which he shot another individual, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released a new report during National Apprenticeship Week examining federal support for post-high school technical education, skills training, apprenticeships and other workforce...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - United States Attorney J. Douglas Overbey is pleased to announce that Assistant United States Attorney Francis M. Hamilton, III, has received the Claudia J. Flynn Award for Professional Responsibility. This award is one of several honors recently announced by Attorney General William...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced James Matthew Johnson (32, Summerfield) to 40 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Johnson had pleaded guilty on Aug. 10, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Isidro De Los Santos, age 33, a citizen of the Dominican Republic residing in Syracuse, was sentenced today to serve nine years (108 months) in federal prison for his convictions for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of heroin, fentanyl...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Michael LeRose, 32, of Nitro, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and co-founder of the Senate Recycling Caucus, released the following statement to highlight America Recycles Day on November 15.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: OCEAN SPRINGS, MS. - Gulf Islands National Seashore has completed storm damage assessments and debris cleanup in the Davis Bayou Area and the area will reopen on Saturday, November 14 under normal operating hours. The Davis Bayou campground will reopen at 10:00 a.m. Reservations will be honored upon...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Additional areas in Rocky Mountain National Park will reopen after being closed since Oct. 22, due to the East Troublesome Fire. Tomorrow, Saturday, Nov. 14, US 36 past the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center to Deer Ridge Junction will reopen, including the Beaver Meadows Entrance Station. On the east...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: NEW CASTLE, Del. - During the week of Nov. 16, 2020, the National Park Service will begin work on the rehabilitation of Sheriff’s House. The Sheriff’s House is adjacent to the New Castle Court House Museum on the Green in New Castle, Delaware.
