News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Mark Anthony Eusebio, aka “Slim," 27, of New York City, was arrested yesterday after having been charged with conspiracy to distribute and distribution of 28 grams or more of cocaine base, a Schedule II drug. Eusebio appeared today before the Honorable John M. Conroy, United States Magistrate Judge, and was ordered detained pending a detention hearing.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Several awards were presented in recognition for exceptional service at the annual Acadia National Park Awards Ceremony hosted virtually on Tuesday September 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Miami, Florida - U.S. District Judge Rodolfo Ruiz, who sits in Ft. Lauderdale, sentenced 50-year-old Richard Allen Ellis, Jr., of Hollywood, Florida, to 20 months in prison for accepting bribes from a contractor. Ellis worked as a supervisor for the Physical Plant Operations Division of the Broward County School Board when he committed the crimes.
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: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, woman today admitted that she paid a man that she believed to be a hitman $4,000 in October 2018 to assault her ex-boyfriend, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Southeast Texas aquaculture company owner was sentenced to life in federal prison Tuesday following his conviction of sex trafficking of a minor female. This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Corpus Christi, Texas, with assistance from the Brownsville (Texas) Police Department and the Texas Rangers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - At the conclusion of a three-day jury trial, jurors sitting in U.S. District Court in Abingdon convicted Tracy Leonard Brown of federal drug and gun charges related to the defendant’s distribution of methamphetamine. Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar and Ashan M. Benedict, Special Against in Charge of the Washington Field Office for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) made the announcement.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Yesterday the House of Representatives passed six bipartisan Natural Resources Committee bills under suspension of the rules, including two bills to combat the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). Of those six, five have now been approved by both the House and Senate and are set to become law.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Last week, former Vice President Biden released his presidential tax plan. He vowed to raise taxes immediately on U.S. businesses, even though our country is recovering from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. But, the last thing struggling American businesses need right now is a massive tax hike.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Martrel Rayshard Reeves, age 30, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing to examine the development of emerging offshore energy technologies, including renewable resources such as offshore wind and marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that, DEWAYNE JOYNER, also known as “Weezy," 36, of Bridgeport, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 180 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) today filed H.R. 8337, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act, reflecting bipartisan agreement on an extension of government funding through December 11. The legislation is a modified version of H.R. 8319, which Chairwoman Lowey filed yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - United States Attorney J. Douglas Overbey of the Eastern District of Tennessee announced today that $406,092 was awarded in Department of Justice grants for the Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance grant (JAG) program.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David J. Freed, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that SHAWN HILL, also known as “SB," 37, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today to assaulting a federal correctional officer, and distributing heroin and crack cocaine shortly after his release from federal custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: The defendant evaded justice for years hiding out in Honduras, but was arrested attempting to re-enter the U.S. last year.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Chair Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) today led a letter with three other key House colleagues asking for an explanation of political interference in the National...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. Sept. 22, 2020 - Kings Canyon National Park will reopen to all visitors on Wednesday, September 23 as air quality improves. This includes the park entrance station on Highway 180 into Kings Canyon, Kings Canyon Visitor Center, trails, facilities and parking areas. Sequoia National Park and Sequoia National Forest remain closed.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Gaming System Sales Frauds.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Today, Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr requesting a classified, Member-level briefing on the “anti-fascist" groups that have spearheaded the riots, destruction of property, and targeted attacks on law enforcement officers in multiple cities across the country.
