News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Larry Casper (619) 546-6734.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Bobby Ray Scott III, age 42, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Bank Robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2113(a) and 2113(d). Bank Robbery is punishable by not more than life imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Mark Kevin Dodson, age 51, of Okemah, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Arson In Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 81, 2, 1151 and 1153, punishable by not more than 25 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: DICKINSON, N.D. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Dickinson Field Office has signed a finding of no significant impact and decision record on an environmental assessment that analyzes potential impacts from leasing 630-acres of federal coal in North Dakota to BNI Coal, LTD.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement in response to the latest shameless, unfounded and partisan investigation by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee and Finance Committee Republicans, targeting Vice President Biden...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: FBI El Paso Presents 2019 Director’s Community Leadership Award to Mary Aguilar Yañez.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Versailles, Ky., man, Kashajuan Kalil Lyvers 24, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison on Wednesday, before U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Laurie Kelly, will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming Nov. 3, 2020, general election. AUSA Kelly has been appointed...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: In Waco, a federal judge sentenced 23-year-old Killeen, TX, resident Eboni Siamone McMurray to 205 months in federal prison in connection with two armed bank robberies, announced U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer, FBI San Antonio Division Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs and Killeen Police Chief Charles F. Kimble.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Bakersfield Field Office will reopen the San Joaquin River Gorge Special Recreation Management Area in Fresno and Madera counties due to easing of wildland fire risk from the Creek Fire. The area will be open to the public the morning of Sunday, Oct. 25, for hunting, hiking, biking, horseback riding and camping.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: Puerto Rico CPA Indicted and Arrested on Wire Fraud Charges in Relation to Act 20 and Act 22 Scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: Taking another step toward strengthening the nation’s critical infrastructure, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has drafted guidelines for applying its Cybersecurity Framework to critical technologies such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) that use positioning, navigation...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M, - Beginning Nov. 1, the Bureau of Land Management plans to implement three prescribed fire projects this fall and winter. The exact timing of implementation will largely depend upon weather conditions. Details on each specific project follow:.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A previously convicted felon pleaded guilty today to engaging in a COVID-19 related loan fraud scheme with losses of $196,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Ashly Phillips, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: ST GEORGE, UT: Travelers driving south to the Mt. Dellenbaugh trailhead, the Waring Ranch historic site, and the Kelly Point Road (NPS1203) will experience intermittent traffic delays daily due to water pipeline construction on Mohave County Road 103. Delays to motorists may range from 15 minutes to...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Laurie Kelly, will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming Nov. 3, 2020, general election. AUSA Kelly has been appointed...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 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), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA) wrote to Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea to request a briefing on DEA’s management of the supply of opioids in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: SAN ANTONIO, TX-This week, law enforcement authorities in the United States and Mexico participated in coordinated law enforcement operations seeking to identify individuals lasing aircraft along the U.S.-Mexico border from Del Rio, Texas/Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila to Eagle Pass/Piedras Negras.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced today that Savon Barnes, 28, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by complaint with possessing with intent to distribute, and distributing, ...
