News from October 2020
By USDA Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
Release: The government of Germany has asked USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to authorize the importation of moth orchid (Phalaenopsis spp.) for planting into the United States and Territories.APHIS has drafted a pest risk assessment that lists the potential pests likely to remain on ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - United States Attorney David M. DeVillers announced today that he has designated Election Officers in each of the district’s three offices to serve as points of contact for the upcoming general elections.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: GREENVILLE, N.C. - A Shallotte man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for dealing crack and using firearms to facilitate his drug dealing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On October 6, 2020, Kevin Cummings, 51, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez to six months in prison. The court also ordered Cummings to pay $305,371.20 in restitution to the Social Security Administration (SSA) and a $200,000 fine. Cummings must surrender to serve his prison sentence on January 7, 2021. Cummings previously pleaded guilty to Providing a False Statement Related to Social Security.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: FAA issues free educational resource discussing 100 years of work to create a safe, modern aviation system in Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Corey Kimani Sanders, 31, of Columbia, was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man who worked as a teacher in China has pleaded guilty in federal court to sexually exploiting one of his former students by attempting to blackmail her into sending him pornographic images.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Devin Diggs, 21, a former U.S. Army solider previously stationed at Fort Drum, New York, was sentenced today to serve 24 months in federal prison for the burglaries of two federally licensed firearms dealers in Northern New York, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and John B. DeVito, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
By DOL Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, encouraged disability advocates to keep up the fight to slow and stop the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court-and highlighted how Senate Republicans’ singular focus on their rushed confirmation process would harm the disability community and impact their access to affordable health care.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Fort Scott National Historic Site has contractors beginning work next week to remove and replace the cedar shake shingles, eave troughs, and downspouts on seven (7) restored and reconstructed buildings. To allow the work to proceed as quickly and safely as possible, no more than one building will be...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Four Union County, New Jersey, men were arrested today for their roles in a conspiracy to steal mail and possess stolen mail, including credit cards and pandemic relief credit cards, fraudulently use the stolen credit cards without authorization, and defraud the U.S. Postal Service and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that a Portland, Oregon, resident has been charged with setting fire to the plywood and awnings on the Justice Center building that houses the Multnomah County Detention Center (MCDC) and Portland Police Bureau’s (PPB) headquarters and Central Precinct.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: New Orleans, LA - The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) New Orleans Task Force sponsored a two-month operation in the New Orleans metro area with critical support from state and local law enforcement netted 45 arrests with 27 of the arrests being for violations of the Louisiana Sex Offender Registry.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - An Indiana man has been charged with a federal firearm offense for allegedly illegally selling dozens of handguns and assault rifles in the Chicago area.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Natural Resources Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) this morning highlighted a newly released Government Accountability Office (GAO) report finding that the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) royalty reductions for oil and gas companies during the COVID-19 pandemic violated its own regulations...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MN: In late May of this year, a floating cattail mat, approximately a third of an acre in size, was located at the eastern end of Lost Bay on Lake Kabetogama near the Cruiser Lake Trailhead. The mat lodged itself onto a rock pile in front of the Cruiser Lake Trail dock. On October...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Cindy Cipriani (619) 546-9608.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Officers find gun in running washing machine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Anthony Frazier, Jr., 28, of Ramah, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, appeared in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Oct. 2 for an initial appearance on an indictment charging him with second-degree murder in Indian Country and obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: A. Tonya Odom Named Assistant Director of the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity Affairs.
