News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Today, the Department of Justice announced it has charged more than 500 domestic violence cases involving firearms during Fiscal Year (FY) 2020. A Department priority since 2019 when Attorney General William P. Barr created the Department of Justice’s first ever-Domestic Violence Working...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Firearm, Along with Other Weapons and Ammunition, Found at Locations Connected to Perpetrator of Jersey City Mass Shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Florida Recording Artist Accused of Buying Ferrari with Relief Money.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: District of Nevada Charged 32 Firearms Cases Related to Domestic Violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARK FELNER, 31, of Clinton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for engaging in sexual activity with an underage victim in 2015 and 2016, and receiving pornographic images from the minor victim.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Houston, Texas, and the Fort Bend County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday the results of an operation targeting sex trafficking in Fort Bend County, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Said El-Khatib, 34, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady to 60 months in prison, followed by 2 years of supervised release announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Yosemite National Park is proud to announce that Ansley Singer is the recipient of the 2019 Barry Hance Memorial Award. The Barry Hance Memorial Award is a peer-nominated award that is named in honor of Barry Hance, a long-time employee of Yosemite National Park who died in an avalanche while plowing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Edward Ray Loretto, 39, an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Jemez, made an initial appearance in court on Oct. 1 pursuant to a two-count federal indictment charging one count of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of sexual abuse of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Western District of Oklahoma’s "Operation 922" has Charged 124 Domestic Violence Related Cases Since March of 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. - After robust outreach with its employees, local communities and government officials, Tribes, stakeholders, as well as Colorado’s congressional delegation, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) realigned its district boundaries in Colorado today. The BLM now has four districts in Colorado - the Northwest Colorado District, Southwest Colorado District, Rocky Mountain District, and the newly formed Upper Colorado River District.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, CT - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Henly Feliz Santiago, 43, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in Torrington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 48 months of imprisonment for trafficking heroin and cocaine
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Defendant used heavy trucks to smash into gun stores and steal 39 firearms and ammunition in Clallam and Skagit Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Eastern District of Kentucky has charged 11 cases since 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Eastern District of California Charged 13 Cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme today announced $1,894,452 in Department of Justice grants to improve services for crime victims in Montana. The grants, awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs, are part of over $144 million distributed to enhance the district's response to victims of crime throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Drug Enforcement Administration and Discovery Education have expanded Operation Prevention, a joint effort to curb drug use among students by educating them about the dangers of abuse. In response to growing demand, new modules launched last night build on the original student curriculum, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A previously convicted felon was sentenced today to over 12 years in prison for his possession of a firearm and possession of distribution amounts of cocaine hydrochloride and cocaine base following a vehicular pursuit in the City of Richmond.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: On October 6, 2020, Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson sentenced former Wind River Indian Reservation Chief Tribal Court Judge Terri Smith and her sister Jerri Lee Smith on federal drug charges. TERRI SMITH, 35, of Arapahoe, Wyoming, was sentenced for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: OAKLAND - Dominic Deandre Gregory has been charged in a criminal complaint with wire fraud in connection with a scheme to raise money with an online campaign purporting to raise money for the funeral of fallen officer Patrick Underwood, announced U.S. Attorney David L. Anderson and Acting Special Agent in Charge Shawn M. Bradstreet of the U.S. Secret Service San Francisco Field Office.
