News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, Okla. - The DEA Oklahoma City office announced that nineteen defendants have been indicted and arrested for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Oklahoma and elsewhere. Federal charges for Drug Conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA -Victor Lamont Carr, of Ranson, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day of incarceration for his role in a drug distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MEEM JANNAT, 25, of Brooklyn, New York, formerly of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to seven months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for her role in a counterfeit check bank fraud scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $600,00 grant to the city of Gallup, New Mexico, to support regional economic recovery strategies for healthcare and transportation industries. The project, to be located in a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Opportunity Zone, will be matched with $150,000 in local funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, after the Trump Administration invested nearly $5 million to study and begin pre-construction work on the Friant Kern Canal Project, the Bureau of Reclamation signed the Record of Decision giving environmental clearance to repair a 33-mile stretch of the canal in California’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot Shea, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Ryan Thomas Savage, of Wintersville, Ohio, was sentenced today to 37 months of incarceration for his role in a cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced the conviction of two defendants charged in Operation Hidden Fee, an extensive federal, state, and local investigation by the Middle District Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) aimed at a narcotics trafficking network in Baton Rouge. The Indictment filed in this matter charged significant offenses involving heroin, methamphetamine, and “crack" cocaine, as well as several firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: A Tulsa man admitted today in federal court that he violated a protective order by sending harassing and threatening emails to a female victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Vicente Perez, 22, of Albuquerque, was sentenced on Oct. 29 in federal court to six years and three months in prison for robbery. Perez pleaded guilty on July 10. His accomplice, Jacob Merkel, pleaded guilty on Aug. 24 for his part in the crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: Lengthy History of Tax Fraud Included Faking Terminal Cancer Diagnosis to Avoid Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel today sentenced Wayne Deo Ramsaran, age 46, of Jessup, Maryland, to time served of 29 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for managing a drug-involved premises. Ramsaran must also forfeit all rights and interests to the condominium.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 39-year-old former Border Patrol (BP) agent has been ordered to prison following his conviction on multiple drug trafficking charges and threatening a federal agent with bodily harm, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 45 year-old Texas woman has pleaded guilty to tax evasion in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Fitchburg man was convicted today of trafficking fentanyl following a bench trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - Regan Dube, who along with her husband Michael Dube formerly owned and operated American Toxicology Labs, was sentenced this week in U.S. District Court in Abingdon, Virginia to three years of probation, four months of home detention, and 400 hours of community service. Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar and Virginia Attorney General Mark G. Herring made the announcement today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Reston man pleaded guilty today to selling fentanyl to an individual who later overdosed on the drug and died.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - Earlier this year, the Domestic Names Committee of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names voted unanimously to approve the proposal to name a peak after the Devils Hole pupfish and Ash Meadows Amargosa pupfish. At 4,355 feet in elevation, the previously un-named Pupfish Peak is a high point in an area known as Devils Hole Hills on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $500,000 grant to Grant County, New Mexico, to support economic recovery and expansion efforts in partnership with the Silver City Chamber of Commerce and Western New Mexico University. This EDA grant will be matched with $126,552 in local funds.
