News from October 2020
By USDA Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: CHECOTAH, Okla., Oct. 29, 2020 - The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $26.4 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in Oklahoma. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Ashley Speicher, 33, Lublin, Wisconsin was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 42 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin. This prison term will be followed by three years of supervised release.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint against Kendall Frozen Fruits Inc. for alleged violations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). The company, operating from California, allegedly failed to make payment promptly to two produce sellers in the amount of $2,166,335 from May 2017 through July 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Rochester, New York man was sentenced in federal court in Bangor for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine base (commonly known as “crack"), distributing heroin and crack, and conspiring to violate federal firearms laws, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: A former manager of a San Angelo meat packing plant plead guilty today to misleading federal regulators, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Christopher Parker, of Guilford, Vermont, waived indictment and pleaded guilty today to a one-count information charging him with tax evasion. U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss ordered Parker released on conditions pending sentencing on Feb. 15, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Morgan Herrera, age 29, of Robesonia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Oct. 29, 2020 to six months’ imprisonment followed by two years of supervised release (which includes six months of home detention) by U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo, for embezzling over $80,000 from S&T Bank. Judge Rambo also ordered Herrera to pay $80,011 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man Robs Northwest Albuquerque Credit Union.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated two Maine counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Franklin and Washington counties who suffered losses caused by 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: 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 State Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) today released the following statement ahead of Georgia’s upcoming parliamentary elections:
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman, Toledo Police Chief George Kral and ATF Special Agent in Charge Roland Herndon announced today that Operation Red-Zone will be active in the city of Toledo over the Halloween weekend beginning Friday, Oct. 30, and running through Monday morning, Nov. 2, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena man pleaded guilty today to a federal charge of conspiring to kidnap a Chinese national who was violently abducted from a San Gabriel parking lot, and whose parents were extorted for $2 million in ransom before the victim died from his injuries.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - the Honorable District Judge Helen Gillmor sentenced Zachariah Fredrickson, 32, of Kapolei, Hawaii, to ten years in prison, to be followed by ten years of supervised release, for attempting to entice a 13 year-old minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity. He will also pay a $5000 special assessment pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: DETROIT - A former University of Michigan professor is facing charges of child exploitation of a minor following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Today, ICE HSI Special Agent in Charge Vance Callendar joined United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - United States Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger announced today that a team of Assistant U.S. Attorneys across the Eastern District will lead efforts in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming general election.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Columbus man was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 30 years in prison for participating in a local gang’s racketeering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Brooke Alexandria Kimble, 22, of Parkersburg, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for distribution of fentanyl. The five-year sentence was a significant upward departure from the U.S. Sentencing Guideline Range.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: ROANOKE, Va. - Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar today announced awards of more than $3.4 million in Department of Justice grants to fight drug abuse and addiction in the Western District of Virginia. The grants were awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and are part of more than $341 million going to communities nationwide.
