News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - Raymond P. Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), and Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (NYPD), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - An Arizona resident pleaded guilty yesterday to sexually assaulting a woman on the Fort Mohave Indian Reservation in Laughlin, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Todd County, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Aggravated Sexual Abuse as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota, beginning on October 6, 2020, and concluding on October 8, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: Hagatña, Guam - SHAWN N. ANDERSON, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands today announced $794,650 in Department of Justice grants to improve services for crime victims. The grants, awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs, are part of over $144 million distributed to enhance the response to victims of crime throughout the United States. Recipients of this funding will include the following organizations.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, issued a subpoena to the Honorable Chad Wolf of the Department of Homeland Security for documents and communications regarding the Department’s decision to summarily single out and ban New York residents...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Trent Shores today announced that Volunteers for Youth in Roger’s County is being awarded $598,792 in Department of Justice funding to support mentoring services for youth in rural areas hit hard by the opioid epidemic. The awards were made by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Office for Victims of Crime, part of the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis today announced $10,089,836 in Department of Justice grants to assist victims in Idaho. The grants, awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs, are part of almost $1.8 billion distributed to state victim assistance and compensation programs to fund thousands of local victim assistance programs across the country and to provide millions in compensation to victims of crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Simeon Atcitty, 38, of Shiprock, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, appeared in federal court on Sept. 29 for a detention hearing. A federal grand jury indicted Atcitty Sept. 10 on a charge of second degree murder in Indian Country. Atcitty will remain in custody pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Tyler Ross Deerinwater, age 29, of Holdenville, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Murder In Indian Country- Second Degree, punishable by up to life imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both;...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: Yamil Abreu Navarro Charged with Importing 79 Kilograms of Heroin to the United States.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) released the following statement calling for input on how to improve the 340B Drug Pricing Program (340B).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Ashley Washington, 33, of Bronx, New York, pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to bank fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: Lenore, Idaho, Man Sentenced in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Defendants Alexanda Amon Kotey, 36, and El Shafee Elsheikh, 32, two militant fighters for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) charged for their alleged participation in a brutal hostage-taking scheme that resulted in the deaths of four American citizens, today made multiple appearances here in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Michael Wayne Miller, age 41, of Muskogee, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Child Abuse In Indian Country (2 Counts) in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1151, 1153, and Title 21, Oklahoma Statutes, Section 843.5(A), punishable by not more than life imprisonment, a fine up to $5,000.00, or both for each count.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Wilber Vigil-Benitez, also known as “Solitario," of El Salvador, was arrested today on an outstanding arrest warrant from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, announced Michael R. Sherwin, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia; John J. Durham, Director...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Todd County, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Aggravated Sexual Abuse as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota, beginning on October 6, 2020, and concluding on October 8, 2020.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) sent a letter to the Comptroller General of the United States Gene Dodaro to request a technology assessment of COVID-19 contact tracing apps by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Eleven law enforcement members were recognized today for their outstanding work in the greater Clarksburg area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, announced today federal charges against four individuals, for operating as “money mules" in two separate business email compromise schemes.