News from October 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today sent Interior Secretary David Bernhardt a letter asking for documents and interviews to explain the administration’s violent June 1 law enforcement crackdown at Lafayette Square against peaceful civil rights protesters. The letter, available at...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Deshawn Gonsalves, 26, of St. Croix, pled guilty in District Court to one count of Felon in Possession of a Firearm, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Vanderburgh County Superior Court and its collaborative partners awarded over $409,000.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: MOAB, Utah - The BLM Moab Field Office plans to release and begin a 30-day public comment period for the Canyon Rims Travel Management Area Environmental Assessment (EA) from October 14 through Nov. 15, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Justin Coffman, 29, has been federally charged with being a drug user in possession of firearms, and has been indicted in state court for the criminal offense of possession of a hoax device. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the unsealing of the federal criminal complaint, and 26th Judicial District Attorney General Jody Pickens announced the state indictment by the Madison County Grand Jury today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: WEST GLACIER, Mont. [Oct. 14, 2020] - Due to continued winter weather, the alpine sections of the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park will remain closed for the season. Currently, visitors can drive 15.5 miles of the road from the West Entrance to Avalanche Creek. All roads on the east side of the park remain closed due to COVID-19 operating requirements.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy, in collaboration with the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and the Office of Science, announced a request for information (RFI) about “enhanced weathering" research opportunities that could lead to advances in the capture and storage of carbon dioxide (CO2).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - U.S. Attorney Robert M. Duncan, Jr., announced on Monday two separate grants of Department of Justice funds that were awarded to recipients in the Eastern District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that four defendants were charged in three separate indictments with fraud and misrepresenting occupancy in order to steal thousands of dollars in federal assistance. This assistance, taken from the Troubled Asset...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A multi-convicted felon who led law enforcement on a 90-minute car chase throughout Orange County earlier this week has been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces arrest of alleged Cicis Pizza shooter, Henry Terrell Page. Page was arrested earlier today by the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Five individuals in Florida have been arrested and more than $1.1 million dollars in cash has been seized in a wide-ranging, ongoing joint federal and state investigation into a significant number of fraudulent unemployment insurance claims submitted to the Rhode Island Department of Labor...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Gene Hawkins, age 50, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on October 9, 2020, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 21 months’ imprisonment for selling 1.5 grams of heroin in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that United States District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced Michael Allen Worley, age 60, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 144 months in federal prison following his convictions for bank fraud and wire fraud. The Court further sentenced Worley...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Twenty-two people are facing charges in a multi-state organized drug trafficking enterprise dubbed the “19th Street Enterprise," U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Stanislaus John Richard Hensh, age 48, of Luray, Virginia entered a guilty plea to Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 846, punishable by not less than 10 years imprisonment, a fine up to $10,000,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A man and woman who are in custody in Topeka were indicted today on federal charges of robbing three Kansas businesses, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Fairview Heights, Ill. - In observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Department of.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 28-year-old resident of Los Fresnos has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for large-scale meth trafficking, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
