News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Adrian Kyle Benjamin made an initial appearance today in federal court on a criminal complaint for receipt of child pornography, announced David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. Benjamin made his initial appearance in federal court today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kandis A. Westmore.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement after Shimkus went to the House floor to request unanimous consent that the House of Representatives immediately consider the Committee-passed product. Unfortunately, Democrats rejected the request to bring the bill as adopted by committee to the House floor for consideration.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: On Sept. 20, 2020 the National Park Service (NPS) released a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Environmental Assessment (EA) of the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area (LRNRA) Visitor Use Site Management Plan (VUSMP). This completes the visitor use management planning effort for nine priority sites at Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area that began in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: SENTENCING - JERARDO ALVAREZ. On Sept. 29, Jerardo Alvarez, 35, was sentenced was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for aiding and abetting foreign travel in aid of racketeering. Customs and Border Protection officers in Laredo identified a shipment of 200 kilograms of methamphetamine headed...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that LAQUASIA SAMMS, also known as “Quasia," 26, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to making false statements before a federal grand jury in connection with an investigation into the kidnapping and murder of two individuals, and the related murder of a third individual, in November 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Paul Starita (619) 546-7701.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Roderick Dunshaw Tingle, 38, of Meridian, Mississippi, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves to 10 years in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Tingle was also ordered to pay a $1,000.00 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public scoping comments on approximately 111,340 acres of public lands proposed for the upcoming March 2021 competitive oil and gas lease sale in Jackson, Las Animas, Moffat, Rio Blanco and Weld counties.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: If approved, the Arica and Victory Pass solar projects would result in an estimated combined private infrastructure investment of $689 million, $5.9 million in annual operational economic benefit, and together power approximately 132,000 homes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Defendant used embezzled funds to purchase Porsche SUV and luxury items.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: In One Scheme, the Defendant Received more than $189,900 in COVID-19 Unemployment Insurance Benefits, Using Stolen Identities to File Fraudulent Claims in Wisconsin & Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County man has been charged with possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Erik Martinez-Melendez, age 24, a native of El Salvador residing in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, pleaded guilty yesterday to illegal reentry of a deported alien after being convicted of an aggravated felony, in this case, second-degree rape.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Hassan and Abdurahim Nuriso, owners of the Somali specialty market Towfiq Market on Sullivant Avenue, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to conspiring to commit food stamp and WIC fraud. The brothers redeemed more than $10 million in SNAP and WIC benefits at their store between 2010 and 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement after Shimkus went to the House floor to request unanimous consent that the House of Representatives immediately consider the Committee-passed product. Unfortunately, Democrats rejected the request to bring the bill as adopted by committee to the House floor for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 30, 2020, Gerald McFadden, age 36, of Lewistown, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Toby Randall Walker, 36, appeared in federal court in Albuquerque on Oct. 1 on multiple drug and firearm charges brought under the Department of Justice’s Operation LeGend.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky.- An Erlanger, Ky., man, Justin Frank, 30, was sentenced in federal court on Friday to 150 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: MARIANNA, FL - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.6 million grant to Jackson County, Florida, to construct a building at the Jackson County Industrial Park to support manufacturing growth and boost county...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Paul Starita (619) 546-7701.
