News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Joseph Tyree Ryles, of Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced today to 120 months of incarceration for a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Last week, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona filed an amended Notice of Intent to seek the death penalty against Ryan Phillip Schlesinger.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that ARMANDO J. PEREZ, the former Chief of Police of the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (the “City"), and DAVID DUNN, the City’s former acting personnel...
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding reporting that senior political appointees at the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) are breaching the statutory firewall meant to protect the broadcast services from interference by an administration, including by targeting Voice of America’s (VOA) chief White House correspondent...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was sentenced today in connection with unlawfully importing and exporting salamander and turtle species.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Seventeen individuals have been charged in federal court with operating a multiple-state drug trafficking organization. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the unsealing of the federal criminal complaint today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Micheal Antonio Smith, 32, of Washington, D.C. has been arrested and charged via criminal complaint with robbing three different Wells Fargo Bank branches on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Spearfish, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - Armond Calvin, of St. Louis City, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and one count of using a firearm to commit murder in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Calvin, 22, appeared before United States District Judge Catherine D. Perry.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
Release: On October 5, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced availability of credit guarantees for sales of U.S. agricultural commodities under the Commodity Credit Corporation’s (CCC) Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102) for fiscal year 2021. Further details of the announcement may be found at.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: GRAND CANYON, Ariz. - Grand Canyon National Park rangers urge inner canyon hikers to hike smart while visiting the park this fall season. Hikers and backpackers attempting rigorous distances, such as ‘Rim to Rim’ through the inner canyon are strongly encouraged to be self-reliant and to understand their own physical limitations in order to prevent emergency situations for themselves and responders.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: John McAfee Indicted for Tax Evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that on October 1 2020, RODNEY ROBINSON, age 61, of New Orleans, was sentenced by United States District Judge Barry W. Ashe after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Maurice Dent, 34, of Jackson, was found guilty Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, of possessing a illegally possessing a firearm after having previously been convicted of a felony crime, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives for Jackson. The jury returned the verdict following a four-day trial before U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate in Jackson.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: An essential step to protecting mobile and embedded devices from cyberattacks is ensuring that software is not vulnerable to malicious attacks. More than 12,000 new common vulnerabilities were identified in 2019 alone. Verifying that devices are secure is a daunting challenge, as thousands of apps and...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on President Trump’s reckless actions and his continued disregard for the health and safety of the public and those around him, including the Secret Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Joseph Tyree Ryles, of Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced today to 120 months of incarceration for a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC- The list of groups coming out in support of the bipartisan “Aircraft Certification and Accountability Act" continues to grow. The bill, introduced last week by Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), Subcommittee on Aviation Chair Rick Larsen (D-WA), and Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA) was advanced by voice vote during a Committee markup and now moves to the House floor.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: BAKER CITY, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management announced that the John Day Snake Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet Oct. 15-16 in Enterprise, Ore.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Gloucester City, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring to distribute and selling oxycodone, Adderall, and Xanax and defrauding the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in connection with his role in a drug trafficking ring, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
