News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced that JAY DEAN LOW, 57, was sentenced to an above guideline sentence of 72 months in prison for wire fraud. LOW, who pleaded guilty on Dec. 18, 2019, was sentenced yesterday before Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: Alleged Victim Was 12 Years Old.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jarmaine Dunbar, 43, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The charges carry a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former member of the New Bedford Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty yesterday to racketeering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Omar Vera-Velazquez, 23, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Gay Vietzke has named Ahna Wilson as superintendent of Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York. She will also oversee the management of Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in Auburn, New York.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: SANTA FE, New Mexico - In keeping with the Trump Administration’s goal of promoting American energy security, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes to offer a total of 33 parcels totaling 6,442.36 acres at its January 2021 oil and gas lease sale. The proposed parcels are located in Eddy and Lea...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the U.S. officially exiting the Paris Climate Accord...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Gabriel Valley man pleaded guilty today to a federal conspiracy charge and admitted that he helped orchestrate a scheme in which Chinese nationals paid up to $60,000 to enter into sham marriages with U.S. citizens in the hope of obtaining “green cards.".
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: Defendant Drove MS-13 Members to Location in Frederick Where Victim was Beheaded, Dismembered, and Buried in a Shallow Grave; Thirty Defendants Charged in this Case to Date.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama- On Oct. 30, 2020, DeGregory Deon Lee, 24, a resident of Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to 205 months in federal prison for his role in committing multiple armed robberies and violating federal firearms laws, announced U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. and FBI Special Agent...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) took another major step to defend the critical infrastructure that underpins America’s security and prosperity by launching the Operational Technology (OT) Defender Fellowship. The OT Defender Fellowship program is a new collaboration with ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jarmaine Dunbar, 43, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The charges carry a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Wheaton, Minnesota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Unlawful Taking of Golden Eagle.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A prior sex offender currently on parole supervision pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to a child exploitation crime punishable by at least 10 years and up to life in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. November 4, 2020- Changes in long-term weather patterns and transition of seasons, along with the decrease in overall visitation has reduced the threat of unwanted human-caused fires in higher elevation areas of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks allowing the fire managers to reduce fire restrictions.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following the final day of voting, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Christopher Krebs, issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: Results in Seizure of 1,447 Pounds of Illegal Drugs, 49 Firearms, and Over $6.6M in Drug-Related Assets.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced MS-13 associate Luis Cruz Rodriguez, age 23, of Frederick, Maryland, to 10 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, after Cruz Rodriguez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering. The guilty plea was entered on Nov. 3, 2020, and Chief Judge Bredar imposed the sentence immediately following the plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALEXIS VELEZ, 56, formerly of Connecticut and Maine, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking narcotics.
