News from October 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming struck down the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) 2016 Methane Rule, ruling that the agency “exceeded its statutory authority and acted arbitrarily in promulgating" the regulation. Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released the following statement on the court’s decision.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Lyle Woody Begay, 34, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque to abusive sexual contact in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Today, NATHAN R. ROLLINS, JR., 29, of Lawton, Oklahoma, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison for possessing a firearm after a prior felony conviction, stemming from a road rage incident on the H.E. Bailey Turnpike in Lawton, Oklahoma, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Antoinette T. Bacon, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, and James P. Kennedy, United States Attorney for the Western District of New York, met today with leaders of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: Suburban Chicago Businessman Charged with Illegally Exporting Arms to Ukraine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - U.S. Attorney Michael Bailey today announced over $2 million in Department of Justice grants to address violence occurring at our nation’s schools. The grants, awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs, are part of more than $87 million 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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Frank William Robertson Perry, age 39, of Dundalk, Maryland, has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint, charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. According to court documents, Perry has been identified by law enforcement as a member of the Boogaloo Movement.
By DOE 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: Jun Wei Yeo, also known as Dickson Yeo, was sentenced today in federal court to 14 months in prison. Yeo pled guilty on July 24, 2020 to acting within the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign power without first notifying the Attorney General, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 951. The announcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - After a three-day jury trial with proper COVID-19 health and safety protocols, Frederick Coleman, 29, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit multiple armed business robberies and brandishing a firearm during crimes of violence, in the first post-COVID-19 federal trial held in Memphis. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the guilty verdict today.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), in Phoenix, removed a three-time previously deported criminal alien who is wanted for homicide in Honduras, Oct. 9. The Honduran national was removed via an ICE Air Operations (IAO) charter flight and was transferred to the custody of Honduran law enforcement authorities on an outstanding warrant.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - After a three-day jury trial with proper COVID-19 health and safety protocols, Frederick Coleman, 29, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit multiple armed business robberies and brandishing a firearm during crimes of violence, in the first post-COVID-19 federal trial held in Memphis. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the guilty verdict today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JORDAN FLYTHE, also known as “T," 28, of New Britain, pleaded guilty today to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, fentanyl and cocaine base (“crack").
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Chesapeake man was sentenced today to 380 months in prison for sexually abusing a child.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent a letter to Comptroller...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - An alleged associate of one most serious transnational organized criminal organizations has landed in the United States on charges of distributing kilogram quantities of cocaine from Colombia, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: A Wichita Falls drug dealer has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: SENTENCING - DAVID MARTINEZ MARTINEZ. On October 5, David Martinez Martinez, 40, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for possession of a firearm by prohibited person. Martinez was previously admitted to the United States on a non-immigrant visa and not allowed to possess a firearm. In October...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent a letter to Comptroller...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, as the deadline to submit applications for the Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program - Plus (WHIP+) for 2018 and 2019 losses. USDA did not originally specify a deadline when the program was announced.
