News from September 2020
By USDA Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal judge sentenced Chase Smothermon, 32, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to 45 years in prison for abducting and assaulting two men, one of whom was tortured, killed, and mutilated. Smothermon suspected the victims of stealing drugs and money from his home.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE - The third major drug ring takedown resulted in 14 arrests today. U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran and DEA Special Agent in Charge Keith Weis announced the culmination of these three wiretap investigations.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
Release: NEWARK, N.J.- Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator David Pekoske traveled to Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) today to meet with the TSA workforce and conduct one of his regular virtual town hall meetings, which was broadcast to agency employees nationwide.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Trump Administration will award more than $1.2 billion in airport safety and infrastructure grants through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to 405 airports in 50 states and six U.S. territories.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, New Jersey, resident was sentenced today to 94 months in prison for perpetrating a sophisticated computer hacking scheme that targeted two companies in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Jemez Pueblo Man Wanted on Federal Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Phillip Cline, Jr., age 39, of Elkton, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to making threatening interstate communications. Cline admitted that during a recorded phone conversation with an employee of an auto loan business, Cline threatened to physically harm the employee, whom he described using racial epithets.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Trump Administration will award more than $1.2 billion in airport safety and infrastructure grants through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to 405 airports in 50 states and six U.S. territories.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Aug. 29, 2020, as a result of a joint investigation between U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Puerto Rico Police Department, and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Puerto Rico, CBP officers seized undeclared currency totaling at least 27 million dollars. The currency was found inside boxes bound for St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal judge sentenced Chase Smothermon, 32, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to 45 years in prison for abducting and assaulting two men, one of whom was tortured, killed, and mutilated. Smothermon suspected the victims of stealing drugs and money from his home.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: ATHENS, Ohio - A virtual science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) camp supported by a grant from EM was conducted recently by Ohio University to educate youth in the region that includes the Portsmouth Site.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Trump Administration will award more than $1.2 billion in airport safety and infrastructure grants through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to 405 airports in 50 states and the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Palau, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-Oluwole Oluwaseun Odunowo, 37, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced today to 54 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for his role in a nationwide conspiracy to commit mail fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERIC YOPP, also known as “E-Love," 34, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny to 21 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing cocaine.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Trump Administration will award more than $1.2 billion in airport safety and infrastructure grants through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to 405 airports in 50 states and six U.S. territories.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: SOCORRO, N.M. - The Socorro Soil and Water Conservation District (SSWCD), in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Socorro Field Office, will treat approximately 3,600 acres of cholla cactus-invaded native rangelands. This project is part of the Restore New Mexico Program which is an aggressive partnership between landowners and land management agencies to restore the state’s grasslands, woodlands and riparian areas to a healthy, more productive condition.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The importance of small businesses in supporting Oak Ridge’s EM mission was on full display last week at the eighth annual Small Business Awards Breakfast.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: A man who threw two guns out of a moving car while being chased by federal Marshals was sentenced today to more than three years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - Violent crime in Yellowstone County has increased significantly since COVID-19 appeared in Montana, a trend law enforcement attribute to methamphetamine and domestic violence, federal and local law enforcement officials announced today.
