News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: ,strong>BUFFALO, N.Y. U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced today that following a two week trial, a federal jury has convicted Henry Lloyd, 34, and Roman Dunnigan, 41, both of Buffalo, NY, of conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Lonnie Vantewa Albert, 55, of Portland, has been charged by criminal complaint for allegedly assaulting two Federal Protective Service officers with a sport utility vehicle on Aug. 30, 2020, announced Billy J. Williams, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of TEVIN JAY MAURSTAD, 25, to 270 months in prison. Following a two-day bench trial, MAURSTAD was convicted on Oct. 25, 2019, on six counts of drug trafficking and firearms violations. MAURSTAD was sentenced yesterday before Judge Susan Richard Nelson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Khiem Dinh Vh, 56, of D’Iberville, Mississippi, an unlicensed wholesale seafood dealer who operated a business known as “Gulf Coast Seafood" in Jackson County, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act, which makes it unlawful to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Three defendants are now charged by a federal Grand Jury as a result of civil unrest in Jefferson County during the period of Monday, June 1, 2020, through Wednesday, June 3, 2020. The defendants charged are alleged to have engaged in looting a neighborhood pharmacy for controlled substances ...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. -U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removed previously-deported Luis Lizarraga-Garcia, 36, an aggravated felon and Mexican national unlawfully present in the United States Wednesday. Lizarraga-Garcia is wanted for homicide in his home country of Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that WARREN G. TREME (“TREME"), age 55, a resident of Metairie, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to defraud First NBC Bank, the New Orleans-based bank that failed in April 2017.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and other Senate colleagues today sent a bipartisan letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue requesting funds in the CARES Act be provided to wheat growers of all wheat varieties to address price impacts from COVID-19.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Aug. 19, 2020, an administrative law judge issued a decision in favor of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) against Shane M. Lynch d.b.a. Lynch Cattle Company, LLC (Lynch) for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on Sept. 2, 2020, Nathan Lee Kempter of Highlands Ranch, Colorado was found guilty following a jury trial before Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard of enticement of a minor and travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. Kempter will be sentenced on Dec. 11, 2020, and faces up to life in prison on the two counts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Missouri man with a prior child sexual exploitation conviction pleaded guilty today to possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Susan A. Gibson, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), and James Buthorn, the Inspector in Charge of the New Jersey Office of the United States Postal...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Michelle Peterson O’Connor, 31, of Portland, has been charged by criminal complaint with civil disorder after throwing a helmet at an officer making an arrest during an unlawful assembly in Portland on Aug. 24, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Overland Park man pleaded guilty today to possessing 152 videos containing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former chief executive officer of a New Jersey-based importer of Italian luxury cars admitted today that he failed to report to the IRS as income kickback payments he received for misallocating limited edition sports cars, Attorney for the United States Rachael Honig announced.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $29 million in funding for 14 projects as part of the Galvanizing Advances in Market-aligned fusion for an Overabundance of Watts (GAMOW) program, which is jointly sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and the Office of Science–Fusion Energy Sciences (SC-FES).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging Shaykh Abdul-Majid, age 35, of Washington, D.C., for federal armed commercial robbery and for discharging, brandishing, using, carrying, and possessing a firearm during and in relation to any crime of violence. At his initial appearance today, U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles B. Day ordered that Abdul-Majid be detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Jesse Herman Bates, 38, of Seattle, Washington, has been charged by criminal complaint with civil disorder after shooting a firefighter with a ball bearing during a protest in Portland on July 13, 2020, announced Billy J. Williams, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man was charged in federal court today with illegally possessing a firearm during a shooting incident in which two women were wounded by gunfire, one of whom died as a result.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
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