News from September 2020

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - A federal jury today found Raymond Lee Kelly (52, Cocoa, FL) guilty of possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony. Because of his extensive criminal record, which includes drug trafficking convictions, resisting arrest with violence, battery on a law enforcement officer...

By US DOT Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: San Rafael, CA - Yesterday, Representatives Jared Huffman (CA-02), Chair of the Natural Resources Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Subcommittee and member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Peter DeFazio (OR-04), Chair of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, led a letter to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Brazilian national was arrested today and charged in connection with paying bribes to receive contracts for work at a collegiate institution in New York.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLOS SOTO, also known as “Puchie," 39, of New Britain, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking firearms.
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 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: ROCKFORD - GIANNI GASPARE ANTHONY CARDENAS, 25, of Rockford, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Rockford on two counts of transmitting threats in interstate commerce to injure another person.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: Helped his Imprisoned Father Distribute Over 250 Pounds of Meth.

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: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman convicted of Maintaining a Drug Involved Premises was sentenced on Aug. 31, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man who was one of twenty-six people indicted by a federal grand jury in September 2018 as the result of a series of ATF Task Force and FBI Safe Streets Task Force undercover Project Safe Neighborhoods investigations targeting individuals illegally obtaining and/or trafficking firearms, and trafficking narcotics, was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for trafficking methamphetamine.

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.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Sierra Monique Green, 24, and Martinus Shamar Watts, 31, both of Lexington, have pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, to conspiring with others to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl and distribution of fentanyl resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Robert Chapline, 60, of Hamburg, NY, pleaded guilty, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr., to production of child pornography. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30 years, and a $250,000 fine.
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 Commerce Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today called on Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) to honor the Committee’s bipartisan agreement on the subpoena issuance process and hold a business meeting to vote on the subpoena she intends to issue to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-The former office manager and bookkeeper for a La Grande, Oregon medical practice pleaded guilty today for devising a scheme to defraud her employer, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.

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 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: Jackson, Miss. - Marquis Howard McNeely, 38, of Meridian, pled guilty today before U.S. Chief District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.