News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Two Self-Described “Boogaloo Bois" Charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support to Hamas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Indianapolis, IN - The U.S. Marshals Southern District of Indiana and Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force, in coordination with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), recently wrapped up an operation dubbed "Homecoming" to recover highly endangered missing children throughout the Indianapolis area.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Sept. 3, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers removed an unlawfully present French man wanted by French law enforcement authorities for organized fraud. Stany N’Goma Mavambu, 24, was removed to France and handed over to French authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Robert S. Brewer Jr. (619) 557-5690.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: CONCORD, NH - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced Ira Weeks, 40, of Greenfield, was sentenced to 85 months in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 3, 2020, Miguel Scott Arnold, age 33, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo, for his role as the leader of a human trafficking operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department today announced a federal criminal complaint charging Michael Robert Solomon, 30, and Benjamin Ryan Teeter, 22, with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization (Hamas).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: (DILLON, Mont.) -The Bureau of Land Management’s Dillon Field Office has reduced its earlier closure order for the Bear Creek Fire, re-opening more than 11,000 acres of public land prior to opening day of archery season. About 5,000 acres of BLM-managed public land remain closed to help with continued mop-up activities on the fire.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: By shining white light on a glass slide stippled with millions of tiny titanium dioxide pillars, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have reproduced with astonishing fidelity the luminous hues and subtle shadings of “Girl With a Pearl Earring," Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece. The approach has potential applications in improving optical communications and making currency harder to counterfeit.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: The Woodlands, TX-Ways and Means Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement on the August jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the City of Philadelphia’s guidelines on reopening museums, Independence National Historical Park is increasing access and services. The National Park Service is working servicewide 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 | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Chyquan Cupe, aka “Cash," was sentenced yesterday to 9 years of imprisonment for possessing firearms in furtherance of his drug trafficking activities and being the leader of a drug trafficking conspiracy which distributed...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Chyquan Cupe, aka “Cash," was sentenced yesterday to 9 years of imprisonment for possessing firearms in furtherance of his drug trafficking activities and being the leader of a drug trafficking conspiracy which distributed...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Bayfield, WI - All public uses on Oak Island within Apostle Islands National Lakeshore are temporarily restricted to trained park staff due to unusual bear behaviors. This restriction is in effect beginning 8:00 am on Aug. 28, 2020 until the bear no longer exhibits these behaviors. Public uses on Oak island are temporarily closed however public access to the rest of the park’s 20 islands remains open.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management’s Butte Field Office has issued an Emergency Closure Order temporarily restricting camping, day use, road access and hunting in the Little Whitetail and Hay Canyon areas in Jefferson County due to the State Creek Fire.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: RENO, Nev. - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of promoting American energy security, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is holding a competitive geothermal lease sale on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. The agency will offer 18 parcels for leases totaling 35,632.680 acres in Carson City, Churchill...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Evansville - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today, Joshua W. Eaden, 38, Oakland City, Ind., was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for orchestrating a fraud scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) Chairman Jason E. Kearns...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigates a Utah man who was charged Sept. 3 with using his position and authority as the officer in charge of production and sourcing at a home audio products company to solicit and obtain kickbacks for his personal benefit from Chinese companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A gang member and self-styled rapper with a felony criminal record has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for illegally possessing a gun.
