News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was charged yesterday with being a felon in possession of a loaded semi-automatic pistol.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: President of Consultant Firm Pleads Guilty to Employment Tax Fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
Release: GREER, S.C. - The Transportation Security Administration discovered a total of six loaded firearms at the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP) security checkpoint in August.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - On July 8, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Operation Legend, a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight violent crime. The initiative is named in honor of four-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed while he slept early in the morning of June 29 in Kansas City.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Denzel Robinson, a/k/a Sparks, 26, of Buffalo, NY, with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS -A Box Elder man who admitted possessing a firearm while dealing methamphetamine on the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 11 years and six months in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Winnfield man pleaded guilty today to stealing firearms from a local store.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.25 million grant to the Town of Pulaski, Virginia, to make wastewater infrastructure improvements needed to support growth of the region’s vital manufacturing...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Seven men have been indicted on federal narcotics and firearms charges as part of an ongoing investigation into drug and firearms trafficking in Southeast Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Cameron Hennelly, age 30, currently of Halfmoon, New York and formerly of Amsterdam, New York, appeared in court yesterday on a charge of distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Hugo Ryan Berteau-Pavy, 26, of Portland, has been charged by criminal complaint with civil disorder, a felony, after targeting the eyes of multiple law enforcement officers with a high-powered laser during a June 13, 2020 civil disturbance in Portland.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Two defendants who were arrested after their meth lab caught fire were sentenced today to federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A man who claimed his status as a “sovereign citizen" made him exempt from obeying the law will spend the next nine years in federal prison for illegally carrying a gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: DETROIT - On July 8, 2020, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Operation Legend, a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight violent crime. The initiative is named in honor of four-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed while he slept early in the morning of June 29 in Kansas City.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A former pastor and a North Texas man have been charged with child pornography-related offenses. Charges were announced today in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Stratford Police Chief Joseph McNeil today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging TYIESE WARREN, also known as “Loose Screw," 20, of Bridgeport, with robbery, firearm and carjacking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VICKI MILLER, 57, of Colchester, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to six months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for embezzling from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - The federal government and a Newport-based optometry practice have reached a settlement agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), to remove barriers to access for patients with disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment yesterday charging ASANTE GAINES, 23, of Bridgeport, with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Eva Warner, aka Joshua Warner, 25, of Beaverton, Oregon, has been charged by criminal complaint with civil disorder, a felony, after targeting the eyes of multiple law enforcement officers with a high-powered laser during an August 8, 2020 riot in North Portland.
