News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Smith-Downs’ wife died after accidentally shooting herself with the shotgun.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
Release: CHICAGO - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers detected an unloaded firearm at a Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) security checkpoint on Sunday, Oct. 4.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announces that BENNIE RUTH HARRIS, age 65, of Kenner, Louisiana, was sentenced by the Honorable Judge Lance M. Africk on Sept. 30, 2020 to two years of probation following her plea to acquiring oxycodone by fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jill Streja and Seth Askins (619)546-8401.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Defendant Jason Van Hoesen possessed more than 10,500 child pornography images and videos.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: EPHRATA, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation is planning an investigative excavation to determine the cause of a hole discovered 60 feet downstream of Pinto Dam. The hole is approximately 3 feet in diameter and 2 feet deep, and is likely associated with settling material. The excavation work to determine the cause of the hole will begin Oct. 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot Shea, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A California man was sentenced today for using fraud and bribery to facilitate his child’s acceptance to Georgetown University.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: A man who led a group invading a Waterloo home was sentenced today to ten years in federal prison.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: In three recent water infrastructure laws, Senator Barrasso secured the inclusion of legislative language that authorized the contract.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Maiming and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Thomas Hegarty, 26, of Rochester, pleaded guilty in federal court to attempted bank robbery and robbery charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement in reaction to news reports that controversial former Ukrainian Embassy employee Andreii Telizhenko’s visa was revoked by the U.S State Department in retaliation for his role in spreading Russian disinformation about the 2020 election.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Terry Duane Whited, Jr., 36, of Buhl, Idaho, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 130 months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Whited to serve five years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Whited pleaded guilty to the charge on Oct. 22, 2019.
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Dear Mr. Bulatao and Mr. String...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) announced a $3 million inter-agency agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to research and develop tools and practices that will strengthen the cybersecurity of the Nation's energy sector and maritime transportation system.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - This year, over one million acres in Oregon and over four million acres in California have been destroyed by wildfires. Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), whose district in Oregon has lost entire towns as a result of the fires, penned an op-ed in The...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Illinois man was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for conspiring to transport heroin and cocaine to New Jersey. Daniel Gonzalez Maldonado, 25, of Carpentersville, Illinois, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton in Newark federal court to an information...
