News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Andrew Douglas Packard, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Jeremy Rubin, 32, of Lafayette, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert R. Summerhays to 52 months (4 years, 4 months) in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release. Rubin pleaded guilty on July 24, 2020 to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A leader of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (Latin Kings) pleaded guilty today to drug conspiracy charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The DEA is holding its 19th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, Oct. 24, at locations across the country. Since the initiative began in 2010, the DEA has sponsored spring and fall campaigns to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means to dispose of prescription...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Nespelem Man Sentenced in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. today announced $332,876 in Department of Justice funding to hire a Special Assistant United States Attorney to try federal firearms cases originating in Wake County. The award supports violence reduction efforts as part of Operation Legend and other Department-led initiatives in cities across the country. In the Eastern District of North Carolina, that initiative is called Take Back North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 27-year-old Odom man has entered a guilty plea to transferring obscene materials to a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: ST JOHN, US VIRGIN ISLANDS - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and territory public health authorities, Virgin Islands National Park is increasing access.The National Park Service (NPS) is working service-wide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - United States Attorney Nicola T. Hanna announced today that Assistant United States Attorneys Lindsey Greer Dotson and Thomas F. Rybarczyk will serve as District Election Officers for the Central District of California during this year’s general election period, which culminates on Election Day on November 3.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is launching a new prize competition to improve public safety around canals throughout the United States. Reclamation maintains approximately 8,000 miles of canals in the Western United States and more than 1,000 of those miles are in urban areas. These canals in urban areas have higher risk of drownings.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Nineteen Individuals Charged With Drug and Other Related Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - A Houston, Texas man was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert R. Summerhays to 42 months (3 years, 6 months) in prison followed by 4 years of supervised release for his role in smuggling cocaine to the Opelousas and Eunice areas.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
Release: TRAVERSE CITY, MI - Residents of the Traverse City area will be able to enroll in the Transportation Security Administration’s TSA PreCheck® application program inside Cherry Capital Airport (TVC) from Monday, Oct. 26 through Friday, Oct. 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal grand jury sitting in Charlotte has returned a criminal indictment charging Amir Salvatore Khayyat, 27, of Charlotte, with cyberstalking and making interstate threats, for sending his victim hundreds of harassing and threatening emails and voicemails, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that VANCE COLLINS, a/k/a “Big AK," and RAMON RAMIREZ, a/k/a “Obendy," were found guilty of hiring gang members to murder an individual believed to be having an affair with RAMIREZ’s wife. COLLINS was also...
By State Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, called on Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to make clear that the United States policy toward Indonesia is rooted in American values-particularly support for human rights-in light of Secretary Esper’s recent...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Indiana Criminal Justice Institute awarded over $3,000,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $7.7 million grant to the city of Greenville, Mississippi, to make sanitary sewer infrastructure improvements needed to keep businesses open in the event...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A South Carolina man today admitted defrauding at least 20 individuals by soliciting investments in what he claimed were highly successful, algorithm-based trading pools in foreign currency derivatives (“forex") and other financial instruments, and then using the bulk of the money for personal expenditures and to pay off other victims, Attorney for the United States Rachael Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Kavita L. Harack (34, Kissimmee) has pleaded guilty to committing wire fraud. She faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
