News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Lemuel Escobar (37, Clermont), Humberto Ramirez (39, Mascotte), Alberto Obaya (48, Plant City), and Vidal Estrada (68, Fort Lauderdale) have each pleaded guilty to charges involving cargo theft of an interstate shipment of goods, and receipt and possession of stolen goods. Each faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: United States Files Complaint to Forfeit Iranian Missiles and Sells Previously-Transferred Iranian Petroleum.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement on the Trump administration’s final rule on price transparency.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Wednesday the results of a five-day targeted enforcement operation that resulted in the apprehension of more than 30 at-large aliens in the south Texas area of responsibility. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers conducted the targeted enforcement actions Oct. 19 through Oct. 23, focusing on aliens subject to removal who pose a threat to public safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Johnnie Lee Harris, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Bilal Mohammad Siddiqui, age 23, of Catonsville, Maryland, to 24 years in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for the federal charges of sexual exploitation of children and cyberstalking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - James Dean Odeneal, former inmate at FCI Hazelton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 80 months of incarceration for manslaughter in the death of another inmate, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Frank Horner, III, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 70 months of incarceration for a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Kula, Maui -Applications are now being accepted forthe year long Community Volunteer Ambassador (CVA) Program at Haleakalā National Park. This paid internship opportunity begins February 8, 2021 and lasts 50 weeks. The CVA intern will help expand the park’s service-learning, community engagement, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Members of a major international drug trafficking organization, including one of its ringleaders and sources of supply from Mexico, have been charged with distributing methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl into Oregon between 2018 and 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted to assaulting with a dangerous weapon two people who were swimming in the Delaware River, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) sent a letter to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man who is allegedly a member of the St. James/Marcella gang was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston with distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Drug Trafficking Funded and Fueled Sex Trafficking Within the Premises and Elsewhere; Collected Rent and Purchased Drugs from the Tenants, Visiting the Drug-Involved Premises at Least Weekly.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that two Louisiana men have been sentenced on federal firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man pleaded guilty in federal court in Springfield today to distributing heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: SOUTHWESTERN UTAH - On Sunday at 8:00 a.m., the Bureau of Land Management’s Color Country and Paria River districts will rescind the fire bans put in place months ago across Bureau of Land Management public lands in Piute, Sanpete, Sevier, Wayne, Washington, Iron, Beaver, Garfield and Kane counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John B. DeVito, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF"), Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Nespelem Man Sentenced in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Monett, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy that distributed more than 20 pounds of methamphetamine in southern Missouri.
