News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned two indictments Thursday arising from a single investigation into a drug trafficking organization operating in California and trafficking drugs to Colorado, Nebraska, Oregon, and Washington, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Last week, Merrell Derek Steve Felix, 40, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 46 months in prison. Felix previously pleaded guilty to Assault by Strangulation committed on the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: United States Obtains Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction Against Edward Snowden.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - United States Attorney Michael Bailey today announced $1.5 million in Department of Justice grants to combat elder abuse and financial fraud targeted at seniors across the Arizona. The grants, awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP), are part of over $9 million in...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously adopted legislation introduced by Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) that would help track and prevent sexual assault and harassment from occurring in different modes of transportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Portsmouth man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for discharging a firearm in relation to a drug-trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Fort Smith, AR - David Clay Fowlkes, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that David Ray Powers, age 29, of Marshfield, Missouri, was sentenced on Sept. 30,2020, to 120 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for his role in an automobile accident scheme in which health care practitioners fabricated or exaggerated accident victims’ injuries to support fraudulent insurance claims to Personal Injury Protection (PIP) insurance plans for medically unnecessary services, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Ten men from around the country have been sentenced for participating in a child pornography enterprise and conspiracy, Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) today announced interest rates for October 2020, which are effective October 1 - Oct. 31, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: U.S. Attorney Halsey Frank today announced that Brunswick-based Volunteers of America, Northern New England has received a federal grant of $749,586 to help assist offenders reenter their communities after confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Eddil Ortez, 27, of Manchester, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for attempted possession of fentanyl and cocaine with intent to distribute.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that Better Buildings, Better Plants partners have cumulatively saved more than $8 billion in energy costs and 1.7 quadrillion British thermal units (BTUs).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Fort Smith, AR - David Clay Fowlkes, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that David Ray Powers, age 29, of Marshfield, Missouri, was sentenced on Sept. 30,2020, to 120 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced Darryle Lavance Evans (47, Jacksonville) to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for distributing cocaine. At the time Evans committed this offense, he was on federal supervised release resulting from a previous federal drug...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Tennessee Department of Transportation will be inspecting the historic O&W Bridge on October 5, 2020 (weather permitting). The inspection will require the use of a boom lift to view the upper parts of the truss. The bridge will be closed to vehicles 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM (ET), but accessible by foot traffic if/when it is safe to do so.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - On Tuesday, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia entered a final judgement and permanent injunction against Edward Snowden, a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 29, 2020, Lorenz Quiambao, age 39, of Easton, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for attempted online enticement of a minor and attempted sex trafficking of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 29, 2020, Lorenz Quiambao, age 39, of Easton, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for attempted online enticement of a minor and attempted sex trafficking of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester, Mass. man was indicted by a grand jury today with civil disorder and possession of a Molotov cocktail during a demonstration in the City of Worcester over the death of George Floyd.
