News from September 2020
By USDA Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: RADCLIFFE, Iowa, Sept. 3, 2020 - Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue designated 18 Iowa counties as primary natural disaster areas, enabling producers who suffered losses because of the recent Derecho, that occurred on Aug. 10, 2020, to be eligible for emergency loans. Additionally, Perdue...
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 $2.5 million grant to the city of Marble Falls, Texas, to build a new flood-resistant wastewater treatment plant that will increase the city’s capacity to protect businesses from flooding and encourage additional business development. The EDA grant, to be matched with $625,000 in local investment, is expected to retain 750 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Randall Pete Loftis, age 41, of Seminole, Oklahoma was sentenced to 4 years of probation and ordered to pay $249,000.00 in restitution for Theft From Organization Receiving Federal Program Funds...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents, working jointly with Caribbean Corridor Strike Force (CCSF) officers seized Saturday approximately $27 million in cash at Pier 10 in San Juan.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kristina Hand, age 47, of Morris, New York, was arrested today and charged with stealing thousands of dollars from her former employer, the Morris Central School District.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Oscar Rene Marrot-Garcia, 27, of Los Banos, was sentenced today to 6.5 years in prison for conspiring to manufacture, to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: ― The U.S. Census Bureau released migration statistics from the 2014-2018 American Community Survey (ACS). These data tables highlight the geographic mobility of people between counties, metropolitan statistical areas, minor civil divisions in some states, and municipalities (municipios) in Puerto Rico. The five-year data provide estimates of in-migration, out-migration and net migration of movers and nonmovers between origin and destination of these geographies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: An international conspiracy that profited from drug trafficking and the illegal wildlife trade and conspired to hide the illegal nature of the proceeds has been shut down in a multi-agency law enforcement operation.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - Nineteen foreign nationals face federal charges in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina for illegally voting in the 2016 federal elections, according to federal charges publicly announced on Wednesday. These charges are the latest indictments to result from an ongoing years-long federal criminal investigation being conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Raleigh office.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
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, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
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: CONCORD - Ira Weeks, 40, of Greenfield, was sentenced to 85 months in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Anthony A. Shuster, Jr. and Amy S. Lambert-Shuster, both of Caldwell, Ohio, have admitted to drug and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
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 in a case investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division, Kansas City District Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Defendant had over 1,000 plants in the home.
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: Kansas City MO - United States Marshal Mark S. James announced today the capture of multiple homicide suspects and other dangerous felons during the first week of September. While the U.S. Marshals does not discuss the specifics of arrest operations, the following are examples of the day-to-day work that Deputy Marshals and Task Force Officers do throughout the Western District of Missouri and across the nation in all 94 federal districts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Marcus D. Evans, 26, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today to 16 ½ years in prison by United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., following his convictions for two counts of robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm. In addition to his...
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.
