News from September 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $68,250 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the West Michigan Shoreline Regional Development Commission, Muskegon, Michigan, to develop a study to analyze the entrepreneurial support needs...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: Detroit resident Darrell Baker pleaded guilty today to bank fraud and money laundering arising out of a $590,000 Covid-19 fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Individuals claiming to represent the Department of Justice are calling members of the public to get their personal information, U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox warned today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Chicago Public Schools employee pleaded guilty in federal court today to making false statements to the FBI during a criminal investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: SENTENCING - SAMUEL DE LA CRUZ-MEDINA.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona announced that the Alabaster City Schools’ Board of Education received $374,883.00 from the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP). Nationally, the COPS Office SVPP awarded nearly $50 million in school safety funding. SVPP provides up to 75% funding for school safety measures in and around primary and secondary schools and school grounds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: Al Stewart, Jr., 21, from East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced today to 51 months in federal.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Sasha Rand, 34, of Farmington, pleaded guilty in federal court to fentanyl trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and carfentanil.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: Defendant concealed fentanyl, heroin and a rifle in a drug processing room hidden behind a kitchen cabinet.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Virginia M. Covington has sentenced Craigory Reeves (29, Tampa) to 23 years and 4 months in federal prison for possessing approximately 13 grams of eutylone with the intent to distribute it and possessing a loaded 9-millimeter handgun. Reeves, a career offender and leader of the Money Power Respect (MPR) gang, had pleaded guilty on June 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa-On Sept. 10, 2020, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Lloyd Davenport, age 44, of Burlington, to 262 months in prison for trafficking methamphetamine announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Following his prison term, Davenport will be required to serve a five-year term of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: Reward Offered for Cargo Theft Fugitive.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Andrew Medina, 29, of Niagara Falls, NY, was arrested and charged by complaint with attempting to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, and a maximum of life.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Virginia M. Covington has sentenced Craigory Reeves (29, Tampa) to 23 years and 4 months in federal prison for possessing approximately 13 grams of eutylone with the intent to distribute it and possessing a loaded 9-millimeter handgun. Reeves, a career offender and leader of the Money Power Respect (MPR) gang, had pleaded guilty on June 16, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. James E. Clyburn, the Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent a letter calling...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
Release: Sept. 11, 2020-- The 2017 Government Accountability Office audit, entitled “Animal Use in Federal Research," recommended that the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) provide research facilities with clear criteria for identifying field studies covered under the Animal Welfare ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Two Vidor, Texas women have pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management reminds recreationists that target shooting is prohibited on all BLM-managed public lands throughout the Central California District due to extreme wildland fire danger. This restriction will remain in effect until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Gage H. Clausen, 20, Cheney, Kan., is charged with one count of making a threat via interstate communications. The crime is alleged to have occurred June 27, 2020, in Cheney, Kan.
