News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Russell Richardson has been sentenced for fraudulently using hospital funds to acquire 93 firearms for profit as well as his personal use.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Virginia Beach man today on charges of receiving and possessing images of child sexual abuse.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Mount Lewis Field Office is postponing the 2020 Fish Creek Wild Horse Gather to later this year or early 2021 due to operational concerns with COVID-19 related to this particular gather.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel today sentenced Renaldo Solomon Hayes, age 28, of Seat Pleasant, Maryland, to 81 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and for possession with intent...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Yosemite National Park proudly announces the recipients of the 2020 Volunteer of the Year Awards. These awards are bestowed annually to outstanding volunteers in several different categories, recognizing exemplary service to Yosemite National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, United States District Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Walkesha Shavon Jamison, age 41, of Coralville to fifteen months in prison for Concealment of Events Affecting Benefits, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Following her prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Larry Bruce Heaster, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Patrick Brown of Sandusky sentenced to 14 years imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: With Making False Statements To Purchase Firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes to use helicopter, fixed wing aircraft and other motorized vehicles to track, inventory, gather, and transport wild horse and burro herds throughout Colorado in the coming year. The actual number of areas where gathers will be conducted or inventoried will depend on a variety of factors including funding.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the release of 12 topics for the new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 21.1 Pre-solicitation. During the pre-solicitation period, small businesses can review topics and ask technical questions regarding the topic areas.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Government Operations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) today wrote to United States Postal Service (USPS) Inspector General Tammy Whitcomb regarding the handling of a whistleblower complaint, which unearthed allegations of backdating mail-in ballots that arrived after Election Day, and the unusual decision to disclose information about an ongoing investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Thomas Hopes was sentenced to 41 months in prison for conspiring to launder drug-trafficking proceeds between 2017 and 2019, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: GUILTY PLEA - ENRIQUE BACA-TORRES. On Nov. 10, Enrique Baca-Torres, 39, plead guilty to aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Undercover officers met with Baca-Torres and another coconspirator at Dallas gas station. Baca-Torres and the coconspirator loaded a speaker...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Columbus man has been charged federally with illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: In observance of November as Native American Heritage Month, the National Park Service Tribal Historic Preservation Program announces a major milestone as the 200th Tribal Historic Preservation Agreement has been signed. The agreement with the Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Providence, R.I. man was arrested and charged yesterday with firearms trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Boaz Salmon Bratton-Bey, age 37, of Owings Mills, Maryland, pleaded guilty late yesterday to federal bank fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft charges, as well as to committing those crimes while on supervised release for a previous federal conviction for a similar scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: MINERAL, CA- Lassen Volcanic National Park Highway is closed to through traffic for the winter/spring snow season due to recent snowfall.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House and Senate Democratic health care leaders called on the Trump administration to reverse its recent approval of Georgia waivers that would make health care less accessible in the state. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Senate Health, Education and Pensions...
