News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: POCATELLO - Arnulfo Gonzales-Torres, 23, of Idaho Falls, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 63 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Gonzales-Torres to serve 15 years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Gonzales-Torres pleaded guilty to the charge on Feb. 25, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: HELENA - A Helena man who admitted possessing five firearms and ammunition after having been convicted of a felony was sentenced today to 51 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, today announced an update on Operation Legend in Chicago.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Ukiah, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Ukiah Field Office will reopen portions of the Cache Creek Natural Area, which is part of the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, in Lake and Colusa counties due to reduced wildland fire danger. The area will be reopened to the public at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 4, for hiking, biking, hunting, horseback riding and camping.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO. - The FBI is asking for the public’s assistance to identify potential victims in the case of U. S. v Jeffrey Pierce. Pierce, a high school basketball coach at Seaman High School in Topeka, KS, was charged Sept. 2, 2020, with sexually exploiting minors. Using social networking platforms, Pierce is alleged to have contacted his victims while pretending to be a female teenager. He would then solicit explicit photos or videos from the juvenile victims.
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 $7.2 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to 18 EDA Economic Development District organizations across Texas to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: On July 8, 2020, United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the formation of a new Twin Cities Violent Crime Task Force (Task Force) in response to an extraordinary spike in gun violence and violent crime across the Twin Cities. The Task Force brought together Minnesota-based federal, state...
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: FBI and Mohave County Sheriff's Office Seek Public Assistance on Homicide Suspect.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: This week, the U.S. Census Bureau began to release daily 2020 Census Nonresponse Followup workload completion rates by area census office. As of Sept. 1, over 60.3% of the Nonresponse Followup workload has been completed nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - Jacob Gorman, age 39, of Waverly, New York, was arrested and charged with attempting to entice a child. Following his initial appearance in court on Friday, a detention hearing was held today and United States Magistrate Judge Miroslav Lovric ordered that Gorman be detained pending trial.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s continued failure to confront the threat from right-wing domestic terrorism, while politicizing the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An accountant has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge that he ran a $3.3 million Ponzi scheme that falsely promised generous returns for foreign exchange currency investors, and he facilitated the scheme in part with money he embezzled from his former employer, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A North Carolina man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge James C. Dever III in the Eastern District of North Carolina on charges that his company, Garland F. Fulcher Seafood Company Inc. (Garland Fulcher), at his direction, falsely labeled hundreds of thousands dollars’ worth of foreign crabmeat as “Product of USA.".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for distributing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Man Tat Le, aka Asian Le, pleaded guilty to distribution of methamphetamine Wednesday morning and was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Dale A. Kimball imposed the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Chet Atkins Massey, of Sand Fork, West Virginia, was sentenced today to six months of incarceration to be followed by six months of home detention for his involvement in methamphetamine distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton man was sentenced today to 160 months in prison for his role in a large drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed more than one kilogram of heroin in Trenton and the surrounding area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Texas man who oversaw a drug ring in the Kansas City metro area was sentenced Wednesday to 262 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
