News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JASON BOYET, age 42, a resident of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Sarah Vance to a one-count Bill of Information charging him with distribution of images depicting the sexual exploitation of children, including children as young as three (3) years old, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 2252(a)(2).
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
Release: SANTA BARBARA, California - Officers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (SBA) discovered a loaded firearm in the carry-on luggage of a male traveler ticketed for travel to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Tuesday morning. This is the first firearm discovered in a carry-on bag by TSA at SBA this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Thomas Harris Jr., 27, of Croydon, PA was arrested and charged by Indictment with multiple firearms trafficking offenses stemming from his scheme to sell almost 40 guns to a buyer on the island of St. Lucia.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-IL) from today’s Full Committee hearing entitled, “Driving Equity: The Department of Transportation’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program":
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Department of Justice Begins Second Distribution of Funds Recovered Through Asset Forfeiture to Compensate Victims of Western Union Fraud Scheme, Bringing Total to Over $300 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was arrested today on a federal criminal charge for allegedly cyberstalking and harassing a former romantic partner.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Thomas Harris Jr., 27, of Croydon, PA was arrested and charged by Indictment with multiple firearms trafficking offenses stemming from his scheme to sell almost 40 guns to a buyer on the island of St. Lucia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Vivian Letizia, age 62, of Stone Ridge, New York, was arrested yesterday on a criminal complaint charging her with illegally dispensing controlled substances outside the course of professional practice and for no legitimate medical purpose.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring to distribute heroin and to distributing a quantity of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that the Western Union Remission Fund began its second distribution of approximately $148 million in funds forfeited to the U.S. government from the Western Union Company (Western Union) to approximately 33,000 victims located in the United States and abroad. These victims, many of whom were elderly victims of consumer fraud and abuse, will be recovering the full amount of their losses.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service will provide free admission to all national parks on September 26 for National Public Lands Day (NPLD) -the country’s biggest annual celebration of the great outdoors. Established by the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) in 1994, NPLD encourages environmental stewardship and the use of public lands for education, recreation, inspiration and general health and wellness.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-After a two-day trial, a federal jury has found Antoine Ladale Perkins, 41, guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The jury returned their verdict late Tuesday afternoon after trial began on Monday and continued with testimony on Tuesday. United States District Judge Brian S. Miller presided over the trial, and Judge Miller will sentence Perkins, of Little Rock, at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Gabriel Valley man who allegedly drove his truck into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators on May 31 in Pasadena was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with conspiring to violate firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to an Intimate Partner was sentenced on Sept. 21, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised and demonstrated a system that could dramatically increase the performance of communications networks while enabling record-low error rates in detecting even the faintest of signals, potentially decreasing the total amount of energy required for state-of-the-art networks by a factor of 10 to 100.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: A Plano man has been convicted at trial of attempting to entice a 12-year-old girl at Sheppard Air Force Base, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JASON BOYET, age 42, a resident of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Sarah Vance to a one-count Bill of Information charging him with distribution of images depicting the sexual exploitation of children, including children as young as three (3) years old, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 2252(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: ROANOKE, Va. - Steven Rosine, a former employee at a production facility in Roanoke, Virginia that manufactures night vision devices used by the U.S. military, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Roanoke to stealing night vision devices and other component parts, and selling them over...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Beginning Oct. 1, 2020, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site (NHS) will be seeking public input on a Draft Accessibility Self-Evaluation and Transition Plan. As part of the planning process, the National Park Service is seeking public comment on the draft plan. Your participation is appreciated and important to our planning process.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Floyd C. Rivers (34, Tampa) to six years and five months in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. The court also ordered Rivers to forfeit the firearm and ammunition used in the offense.
