News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell sentenced Brian Elliott Kursonis, 59, of Charlotte, to 360 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for production of child pornography, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Bell also ordered Kursonis to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Carlos Matchett, 30, of Atlantic City, NJ; Khalif Miller, 25, of Philadelphia, PA; and Anthony David Ale Smith, 29, of Philadelphia, PA, have been charged by Indictment for the arson of a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) vehicle...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: * Michael J. Driscoll, Special Agent in Charge from the Philadelphia Field Office of Federal Bureau of Investigation;.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man who is allegedly a member of the St. James/Marcella gang was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston with distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Connecticut nurse was charged with tampering with liquid morphine prescribed to a patient.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Wellington, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing a firearm following a shootout at an Independence, Mo., motel.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the October Federal Grand Jury B.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: “We don't do science projects just because they're cool. We're doing them to solve important problems that are facing the nation and our workforce."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. -A compounding pharmacy based in Nicholasville, and its owner, admitted on Thursday in federal court to unlawful distribution of compounded prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Halsey Frank Warns Public about Online Solicitations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington announced that Jesse McKay, age 45, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, was sentenced after having pleaded guilty on July 28, 2020, to Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that his Office, working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and their federal, State, and local partners, has put in place additional security awareness and monitoring measures in order to ensure the most secure settings for our...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - As part of an ongoing concerted effort by local, state and federal law enforcement to address the significant uptick in violent crime in the City of Fresno, a federal grand jury returned indictments today against four Fresno County residents with various firearms and drug offenses, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, Va.- Jeffery Scott Spicer, a former Scott County Sheriff’s Deputy, who embezzled more than $20,000 of unworked overtime payments from federal grant money allocated to the Sheriff’s Office over the course of three years, and solicited sex and nude photographs from women placed on home electronic monitoring by state court, was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison. Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: * Michael J. Driscoll, Special Agent in Charge from the Philadelphia Field Office of Federal Bureau of Investigation;.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 33-year-old Corpus Christi resident has been ordered to federal prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Statement by FBI Director Christopher Wray on the Use of Body-Worn Cameras on Federal Task Forces.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today issued the following statements after the U.S. Forest Service (Forest Service) published a Record of Decision (ROD) and final rule exempting the Tongass National Forest from the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule (Roadless Rule).
By USDA Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated three Massachusetts counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Berkshire, Essex and Nantucket counties who suffered losses caused by recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department today announced the filing of a complaint to forfeit two shipments of Iranian missiles that the U.S. Navy seized in transit from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to militant groups in Yemen, as well as the sale of approximately 1.1 million barrels of Iranian petroleum that the United States previously obtained from four foreign-flagged oil tankers bound for Venezuela.
