News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) this week announced $4.5 million in grants for the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act Program. The Montana Department of Justice will receive $84,342 for its Peer Support Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man has pled guilty to three drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Martel DaAngelo Brown, also known as “Marty," 33, pled guilty to two counts of distribution of fentanyl and one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: COPS Office Public Affairs (202) 514-9079; cops.office.public.affairs@usdoj.gov.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Kurt Batucan Sheldon (29, Interlachen) has been arrested and charged by federal criminal complaint with production and possession of child exploitation material. Sheldon faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, and up to 50 years, in federal prison. Sheldon has been detained pending a hearing scheduled for Sept. 10, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: The Defendants Were Transporting the Massive Cocaine Shipment in a Go-Fast Vessel off the Coast of Mexico’s Quintana Roo State.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - Two Robeson County men were sentenced today to federal prison for heroin and fentanyl distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Brandon Gineyard, 38, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 41-year-old Ft. Lauderdale, Florida woman has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking charges in the Eastern District of Texas announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
Release: The United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is advising the public of the intent to prepare a Joint Environmental Impact Report and Environmental Statement (EIS) for wildlife damage management activities in California.APHIS has entered into a Memorandum ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - On September 4, 2020, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Jason Wickett, age 47, of Little Sioux, to 200 months in prison and eight years of supervised release to follow his prison term for distribution of child pornography announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Wickett pleaded guilty to the offense on April 22, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis held a hearing on “Ensuring a Free, Fair, and Safe Election During the Coronavirus Pandemic." At the hearing, Republicans emphasized the fact that health officials have said it’s safe to vote in person this fall when health protocols...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former Senior Correctional Officer at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Beaumont, Texas, was sentenced yesterday in federal court for assaulting an inmate housed at the facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Good morning. As Attorney General Barr noted, our nation has made great progress against violent crime, but it still plagues way too many of our communities. And those of us in law enforcement cannot rest while any American lives in fear in their own home, or certainly, their own neighborhood. The violent...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Two men have been sentenced to prison and more than a dozen defendants charged in separate cases in the Southern District of Georgia relating to illegal possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas resident made his initial appearance in federal court on September 4, 2020 for illegally possessing machine guns and unregistered firearm suppressors, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich of the District of Nevada, Special Agent in Charge Frank Burrola for Homeland...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: At a press conference in Chicago today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced updates on Operation Legend.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that ROBERT HADDEN was arrested this morning and charged with enticing...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today issued a Federal Register Notice announcing the Aircraft Pilots Workforce Development Grant Program. The program will expand the pilot workforce and will help high school students receive training to become aerospace engineers or unmanned aircraft systems operators. The program also prepares teachers to train students for jobs in the aviation industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A member of a violent Chicago street gang has been sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for engaging in a pattern of racketeering activity that included murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - William M. Kelly Inc. and Omega Imaging Inc., together, operate 11 radiology facilities in Southern California, have agreed to pay the United States $5 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by knowingly submitting claims to Medicare and the military healthcare program, TRICARE, for unsupervised radiology services and services provided at unaccredited facilities, the Department of Justice announced today.
