News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Bethann Marie Wallace, 48, of Baldwinsville, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with interstate communication of a threat. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service formally welcomed the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial as America's 420th unit of the National Park System on Sept. 18, 2020. The memorial honors Eisenhower’s legacy as the World War II Supreme Allied Commander and nation's 34th president.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: FBI El Paso Participates in National Messaging Campaign to Educate Citizens About Election Security and Foreign Malign Influence in Advance of the November Election.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Washington - As a part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on PK Produce Inc., Canton, Ohio, for failing to meet its contractual...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today condemned a decision by the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to allow the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to deny visas and green cards to certain immigrants who use key safety net programs, including Medicaid and SNAP.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Jorge Rodriguez, 23, a citizen of the Dominican Republic most recently residing in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced on Thursday to 132 months in federal prison for fentanyl trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida -A federal jury has found Wilmer Eduardo Mejia-Palacios (36, Orlando) guilty of four counts of making a false statement to a federally licensed firearms dealer. Mejia-Palacios faces up to five years in federal prison on each count. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Dec. 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE N.Y. -Five men arrested in Syracuse yesterday are alleged to be members of a conspiracy to traffic in cocaine and heroin operating between Puerto Rico, New York City, and Syracuse, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon, Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Defendant accepted delivery of package he believed to contain cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham. United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUQMAN GOTTI, formerly known as Timothy Pennington, 39, of Manchester, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 80 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for exchanging sexually explicit images with a teenage boy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn applauds announcement.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat, and poultry industries, on Aug. 28, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision against James F. Tollett Jr., doing business as Tollett Farms (Tollett) of Dayton, Tenn., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.2 million grant to Carlton County, Minnesota, to establish an aeronautics workforce training center to support the region’s emerging aviation industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Louisville man was convicted Thursday, by a federal jury sitting in Covington, of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Dr. Richard Davidson (41, Boca Raton) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. Davidson has also agreed to forfeit $2,472,087 to the United States, which represents the proceeds he obtained through the commission of the offense. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - St. Louis - On Sept. 17, 2020, a federal grand jury indicted Louquincy Carr for four counts of armed business robbery, four counts of brandishing a firearm in connection with those robberies, and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The 35-year-old St. Louis resident was previously charged by a federal complaint regarding one of these robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm While Under Indictment.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Cane River Creole National Historical Park is pleased to announce that Magnolia Plantation will reopen to the public on Monday, Sept. 21, following an almost four-week closure due to Hurricane Laura.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
Release: MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Transportation Security Administration discovered a loaded firearm at a Memphis International Airport (MEM) checkpoint this morning.
