News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: At time of arrest, defendant was on pre-trial release from Plymouth County Superior Court for various child exploitation offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of RAY GHANSHAM PERSAUD, 21, to calling in a bomb threat to the University of St. Thomas on Sept. 17, 2019. PERSAUD entered his guilty plea this morning before Judge Eric C. Tostrud in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man today admitted that he conspired to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin as part of a conspiracy responsible for distributing significant quantities of heroin and cocaine in the Bayshore area of Monmouth and Middlesex counties, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: GRAND CANYON, AZ - Effective immediately, the National Park Service (NPS) is initiating additional water conservation measures on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park to ensure that the area's facilities can remain open until a replacement water pump can be repaired at the Roaring Spring Pumphouse.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - At a press conference in Milwaukee today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced updates on Operation LeGend. He was joined by Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, who announced charges against 26 defendants who allegedly operated a violent drug trafficking organization in Milwaukee. Law enforcement resources allocated by Operation LeGend contributed to the investigation and today’s enforcement operation.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.5 million grant to the County of Stillwater, Montana, to make critical roadway infrastructure improvements needed to keep commerce flowing and support...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: To Date, the U.S. Attorney’s Office Has Recovered over $325,600 in Fraud Proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Sparta, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for leading a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Christian County, Mo.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, spoke on the Senate floor to stop an effort from Republicans to restrict access to the medication abortion drug, Mifepristone, which was approved by the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Nathan Joe Checotah, age 26, of Okmulgee, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Assault of an Intimate Partner and Dating Partner in Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 113(a)(8), 1151 and 1153, punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jacob Graham, 19, of Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of possessing with intent to distribute five grams or more of actual methamphetamine, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Washington - The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $268 million to modernize rural drinking water and wastewater infrastructure across 28 states (PDF, 222 KB).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Justice, through the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement team, joined Europol to announce the results of Operation DisrupTor, a coordinated international effort to disrupt opioid trafficking on the Darknet. The operation, which was conducted across the...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a new report warning of the lack of cybersecurity leadership in the White House...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Daniel Augustine Solis, 28, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was sentenced to serve 30 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for bank robbery. Chief U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker also imposed a period of supervised release of 3 years and ordered Solis to pay $7038.50, in restitution.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - EM is undergoing a culture change that has resulted in significant achievements over the past several years, and the promise of continued successes ahead, Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar told the audience at the National Cleanup Workshop.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Joshua Clutter, 24, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Lincoln for Receipt of Child Pornography. Senior United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf sentenced Clutter to 120 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that federal, state, and local law enforcement officers charged 17 individuals in federal court for their roles in a drug trafficking organization that operated out of the Midlands region of South Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: 72 defendants charged with federal crimes under Operation Legend in Cleveland.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: A California man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine in Iowa pled guilty on Sept. 17, 2020, in federal court in Sioux City.
