News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A Liberty County man will spend more than 12 years in federal prison for persuading a 12-year-old child to engage in sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a criminal complaint charging DAIJON LEWIS MILES, 28, with three counts of Hobbs Act robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. MILES, who was arrested on Aug. 27, 2020, made an appearance today before Magistrate Judge Tony N. Leung in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Republicans on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis released a report finding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to be a resounding success in protecting over 50 million jobs across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announced today the arrest of Antoine Thomas who escaped from the Dyer County Jail on Aug. 30, 2020. Officials say Thomas along with Michael Bolden overpowered a Correctional Officer, took their keys and then scaled a fence to flee from the jail. The Correctional...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - U.S. Attorney John Milhiser and FBI Springfield Special Agent in Charge Sean M. Cox announced that 10 men were arrested over the weekend in Springfield, Ill., and charged in separate criminal complaints with attempted enticement of a child to engage in sexual activity. The complaints...
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: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Lamar Tindall, 45, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $2,955 in restitution by United States District Court Judge Joshua D. Wolson for robbing three separate BB&T Banks over a period of ten days in May 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: SAN JOSE - Hao Zhang was sentenced yesterday to eighteen months in prison and ordered to pay $476,835 in restitution following his conviction at trial on charges of economic espionage, theft of trade secrets, and conspiring to commit both offenses, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense for Students Heading Back to School Online.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A man has been charged with a federal firearm offense for allegedly “straw purchasing" guns in Indiana on behalf of a convicted felon in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Lamar Tindall, 45, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $2,955 in restitution by United States District Court Judge Joshua D. Wolson for robbing three separate BB&T Banks over a period of ten days in May 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - The former mayor of southwest suburban McCook, who also served as a Cook County Commissioner, pleaded guilty in federal court today to extortion conspiracy and tax charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: A Michigan man was arrested today in connection with a wire fraud scheme involving $3.1 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of BRANDON JAMES JOTBLAD, 29, to 120 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography. JOTBLAD pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday before Judge Eric C. Tostrud in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Berea, Ky., man, Larry Dale Foley, Jr., 48, pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday, before Chief U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves, to employing, using, persuading, inducing, enticing, and coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: MONTICELLO, Utah - Bureau of Land Management (BLM) sincerely thanks the climbing community for their efforts in avoiding raptor nesting sites during the spring climbing season. The BLM now welcomes climbers to use any walls within the Indian Creek corridor, and no longer asks for voluntary avoidance of nesting areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Ryan Ashley Hubbs, of Paris, Ohio, is facing federal charges involving a carjacking and firearms, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: Officers Seized 122 Firearms. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - U.S. Attorney Tim Garrison announced today that 355 arrests have been made by local and federal law enforcement officers in Operation LeGend. Among those arrested since the launch of the operation, 88 are federal defendants in the Western District of...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Tuesday the results of recent enforcement actions targeting removable aliens who have been arrested for, or have pending charges or convictions, for crimes involving victims.
