News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 52-year-old man has entered a guilty plea to one count of money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of a criminal complaint charging Shawn O’Neil Smith (22, Zephyrhills) with robbery. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Nine months after the enactment of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Implementation Act and four months since the USMCA took effect, Ways and Means Democrats today released their assessment of the Trump Administration’s inadequate USMCA implementation and enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The leader of an Atlantic City drug-trafficking organization was sentenced today to 135 months in prison for conspiring to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
Release: Passengers: remember to unpack before you repack for a flight!
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A man from Mexico pleaded guilty today to driving more than one kilogram of heroin to Kansas, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: Louisiana Man Sentenced for Arson of Three African-American Churches.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Dennis D. Davis, 34, of Levittown, PA, was sentenced to 16 years in prison and three years of supervised release by United States District Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg for firearms and narcotics offenses, stemming from an arrest after a dangerous and dramatic car chase in July 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge Rodney W. Sippel sentenced Shon Diegan to 60 months in prison today. The 47-year-old Moberly, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Candis Sanders, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $650,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Community Venture Foundation, Fayetteville, Arkansas, to provide technical assistance to small businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic in Northwest Arkansas. The EDA grant project, to be located near a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Opportunity Zone, will be matched with $192,000 in local funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: Awards Are Part of More than $458 Million in Justice Department Funding Announced by Attorney General Barr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - U.S. District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger has sentenced Jason Kelly Register (42, Woodbine, GA) to 10 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. The court also ordered Register to forfeit a.380 caliber pistol and 7 rounds of ammunition. Register had pleaded guilty on Oct. 23, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 52-year-old man has entered a guilty plea to one count of money laundering, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE - DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day brought in nearly a million pounds of unused, expired, and unwanted medications across the country, the largest amount ever collected in the program’s ten years. Americans once again showed their dedication to remove prescription pills from their homes to prevent addiction before it starts.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leaders wrote to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) urging them to crack down on deceptive and dangerous lawsuit advertising and marketing practices by plaintiff lawyers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA -- Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Jonathan A. Wilson of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Philadelphia Field Division announced today that 41,232 pounds of prescription drugs were collected across Pennsylvania and Delaware by the DEA and its partners during the Prescription Drug Take-Back Day event on Oct. 24, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leaders wrote to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) urging them to crack down on deceptive and dangerous lawsuit advertising and marketing practices by plaintiff lawyers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme today announced more than $2.23 million in Department of Justice grants to fight and prevent violent crime in the District of Montana. The grants, awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP), are part of more than $458 million in funding to support state, local, and tribal law enforcement efforts to fight and prevent violent crime in jurisdictions across the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: Deer hunting season opened in Kentucky on September 5. Deer hunting season opened in Tennessee on September 26. During these big game seasons, wild hogs may be harvested with the appropriate weapon that is legal for that specific season and during an extended hog hunting season that lasts from the end of the deer season until the end of February with a weapon that is approved by that state for harvesting big game.
