News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - On October 8, 2020, a federal Grand Jury in St. Thomas returned a two-count superseding indictment against Louie Ison Mangampat, 37, of the Philippines, charging him with one count of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of committing a hate crime, United States Attorney Gretchen Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Eastern District of Michigan Charged 189 Cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A California woman pleaded guilty today to participating in a complex multistate credit card “bust- out" conspiracy that funded an illicit Interstate Marijuana Operation, and defrauded banks for over a $1,500,000, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Eastern District of Washington Charged 54 Cases.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Following press reports that the Trump Administration has withheld nearly $4 million in payments to the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) World Trade Center Health Program, House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) blasted...
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 Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Zion National Park Rangers along with Washington County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the missing person case of Holly Suzanne Courtier. The Search and Rescue efforts are continuing today with K-9 Units from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and Washington County and Search and Rescue crews within the Narrows and Eastside Areas of Zion National Park.
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: Michael M. Rapa, 67, of Fairview Heights, Illinois, was arraigned yesterday in federal court on a.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Bryan County woman who admitted to tampering with a witness in a child sexual coercion investigation has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A South Georgia man who has alternated much of his past three decades between selling illegal drugs or serving time in prison has been sentenced to spend nearly 20 years in prison for leading a drug trafficking organization centered in Coffee County.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Lovell, WY - Superintendent Mike Tranel announced the selection of Leonard “Len" Mathieu as Administrative Officer for the Powder River Group of parks, which includes Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Devils Tower National Monument, and Fort Laramie National Historic Site. Len has 23 years of experience serving in support positions, 17 years in HR and the last 6 years as an administrative officer.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Uncompahgre Field Office is seeking public comments on eleven special recreation permit applications for fiscal year 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: U.S. Attorney Halsey Frank today announced $639,654 in Department of Justice grants to the District of Maine to fund crime laboratories, decrease DNA backlogs, support basic and applied forensic research and help law enforcement identify missing persons. The grants, awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP), are part of $192 million in funding to advance forensic science nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Charleston, S.C. --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Diamond Floyd, also known as “Dime-Bag", 24, of Charleston, was sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to three counts of drug trafficking and possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 30-year-old man from Guadalupe, Nueva Leon, Mexico, has been sentenced to federal prison following his conviction of conspiracy to import heroin into the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing firearms, including purchasing firearms advertised on the internet, and of stalking two female victims associated with massage parlors in Kansas.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced it has selected two U.S.-based teams to receive $160 million in initial funding under the new Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). ARDP, announced in May, is designed to help domestic private industry demonstrate advanced nuclear reactors in the United States.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Following press reports that the Trump Administration has withheld nearly $4 million in payments to the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) World Trade Center Health Program, House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) blasted...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: District of Vermont Charged 27 Cases.