News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - Today, the Department of Justice announced it has charged more than 14,200 defendants with firearms-related crimes during Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, despite the challenges of COVID 19 and its impact on the criminal justice process. These cases have been a Department priority since November...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today commended the Supreme Court decision to end the field operations of the 2020 census. The law requires the census be reported to the president by December 31 and this ruling will allow the census to be complete by the statutory deadline.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued this statement following the court ruling allowing the Census Bureau to prematurely end enumeration...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 30-year-old Southeast Texas man who posted hundreds of images depicting child pornography on two separate public blogs in 2017 and 2018 was sentenced Tuesday to more than 12 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: An Owasso man admitted his guilt Tuesday in federal court after striking and killing William Houseman while eluding officers at speeds exceeding 90 mph in 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Frerichs had sources of supply in Colorado and Arizona, and distributed over 15 pounds of meth in northwest Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that a Huntington woman and Akron man who participated in a conspiracy that saw large quantities of methamphetamine shipped from Akron and sold in Huntington pled guilty today. Niki Renee Maynard, 49, entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, and Robert Von Wilson, 24, entered a guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Birmingham, Ala. - U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona announces Operation Safe Families, a new initiative to fight domestic violence in the Northern District of Alabama. Through Operation Safe Families, the U.S. Attorney’s Office will work with federal, state, and local law enforcement to use federal firearm ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: 137 Charged in the Middle District.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: A search is underway for a missing hiker in the northwest corner of Mount Rainier National Park. Sam Dubal, 33, of Seattle, was last known to be hiking the Mother Mountain Loop out of the Mowich Lake Trailhead, departing on Friday, October 9 and due out on Saturday, October 10.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that a Huntington woman and Akron man who participated in a conspiracy that saw large quantities of methamphetamine shipped from Akron and sold in Huntington pled guilty today. Niki Renee Maynard, 49, entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, and Robert Von Wilson, 24, entered a guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) and the top Republican on the Oversight Subcommittee Mike Kelly (R-PA) sent letters to the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice asking them to launch investigations into the unauthorized disclosure of the President’s private tax information.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice announced it has charged more than 14,200 defendants with firearms-related crimes during Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, despite the challenges of COVID 19 and its impact on the criminal justice process. These cases have been a Department priority since November 2019 when Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A Havelock man pleaded guilty today to Theft of Mail by a Postal Employee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Keenan Smith, 29, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to nineteen years in prison and five years of supervised release by United States District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno for attempting to rob the Trolley Car Diner on Germantown Avenue in Northwest Philadelphia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - U.S. Attorney Scott W. Murray today announced a $267,595 Department of Justice grant to prevent violence in the Franklin School District. The grant, awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs, is part of more than $87 million in grants nationwide to bolster school security, support first responders who arrive on the scene of a school shooting or other violent incident, and conduct research on school safety.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The K-25 site, now called the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), was built in 1943 in a rural region of East Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to five bank robberies, including one that resulted in a high-speed chase.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A Rocky Mount man was sentenced today to 92 months in prison for a 2018 bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Steven M. D’Antuono Named Assistant Director in Charge of the Washington Field Office.
