News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Attorney General William P. Barr and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea announced the results of Operation Crystal Shield, DEA’s six-month-long effort targeting the command and control elements of Mexican cartels that operate major methamphetamine “transportation hubs" in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Palm Desert man was named today in a federal criminal complaint that charges him with attempted arson in the May 31 firebombing of the East Valley Republican Women Federated (EVRWF) office in La Quinta.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A criminal complaint was filed here today charging a Russian national for his alleged role in a conspiracy to use the stolen identities of real U.S. persons to open fraudulent accounts at banking and cryptocurrency exchanges.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is temporarily suspending permission for recreational target shooting on public lands managed by its Redding Field Office in Shasta, Tehama, Trinity, Butte and Siskiyou counties. This includes the popular Iron Mountain shooting area in west Redding.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - United States District Court Judge Francisco A. Besosa sentenced Ángel Figueroa-Cruz to 10 months in prison followed by a supervised release term of three years and 150 hours of community service for his participation in a scheme to defraud the government, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Figueroa-Cruz pleaded guilty on Oct. 15, 2019 to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Anita Vijay, 50, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to pay and receive illegal kickbacks in exchange for Medicare beneficiary referrals and to soliciting kickbacks in exchange for Medicare beneficiary referrals, United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Settles with Florida Towing Company it Alleges Illegally Sold or Scrapped Servicemembers’ Vehicles.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the second phase of the experimental Small Business Pulse Survey. Data collection began Aug. 9, 2020. Results will be released weekly starting Aug. 20 through Oct. 15, 2020. The second phase includes questions on the core concepts from the first phase...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: United States Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal information charging ROBERT DALE LATOURELL, JR., 50, MELINDA MAY LATOURELL, 45, AND MELISSA ANN LATOURELL, 45, (the defendants) with conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act. The defendants are scheduled to make their initial appearances in United States District Court at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, NY - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced today that two brothers were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with wire fraud conspiracy for their alleged participation in a scheme...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Indictment Alleges Contract Bid-Rigging Scheme, Kickbacks and Money Laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Operation LeGend. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man has been charged in federal court with drug trafficking and illegally possessing firearms after law enforcement officers found firearms and large quantities of illegal drugs in his vehicle at the Argosy Casino. Dominick A. Campos, 40...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Caraballo, age 37, formerly of Vermont, pleaded guilty on September 4, 2020, before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, to assault with a dangerous weapon and possession of contraband in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of obstructing law enforcement during civil disorder, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $6.8 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs across North Dakota that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, joined a group of colleagues to call on the Trump Administration to put together a comprehensive plan to stop foreign interference in the 2020 election, after the Treasury Department sanctioned Ukrainian national, and longtime Russian agent, Andriy Derkach for his role in spreading misinformation about Vice President Joe Biden.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A South Carolina man was arrested today for possessing an unregistered short-barrel shotgun after he shot multiple vehicles and one person along I-95, and led law enforcement on a high-speed chase into Virginia on Saturday.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that Wa1demar Martinez, a/k/a Crazy, 44, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve five years in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former member of the New Bedford Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty today to racketeering charges. The defendant admitted to his role in a May 28, 2019 incident in New Bedford, where a rival gang member was shot at.
