News from September 2020
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park is seeking information to help identify the party responsible for vandalizing the Foothills Parkway West Entrance Sign near the Highway 321 intersection in Walland, Tennessee between Sept. 18, 2020 and Sept. 19, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Sargeant Marine Inc., an asphalt company incorporated and formerly headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $16.6 million to resolve foreign bribery charges stemming from conduct by the company and its employees and agents in...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Leonidas N. Mavrogenis, Jr., 62, of Salem, was sentenced to serve 60 months in federal prison for distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today. Mavrogenis was also ordered to pay $8,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An illegal alien and admitted MS-13 gang member was sentenced today to 28 months in prison for serving as a getaway driver for three men associated with MS-13 who had just committed an armed robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Major Government Contractors Admit to Overcharging between 2009 and 2019 by Billing Time Not Worked, and also Agree to Three-Year Independent Corporate Monitor.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man today admitted possessing large quantities of heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, along with a firearm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Chemists inside the Analytical Laboratory at the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant have finished testing high-purity gas systems that will help technicians analyze incoming samples and determine the correct glass-forming recipe for treating low-activity waste.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Oil Trader Indicted in International Bribery and Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Corrupt Payments to Ecuadorian Officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A northern California man was sentenced today to seven years and six months in prison, to be followed by lifetime supervision, for receiving and distributing more than 1,000 images of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Concord, NH - In a combined effort by the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Forces from both Maine and New Hampshire, last week’s featured “Fugitive of the Week," Christopher Ryan Ross, 40 years-of-age of Waterboro, Maine was located and arrested early this afternoon. Mr. Ross was being sought on a federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two active-duty United States Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton were arrested today on a federal grand jury indictment charging one Marine and three civilians with conspiring to distribute narcotics - including oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl - to civilians and members of the United States Marine Corps, one of whom suffered a fatal drug overdose in May. The second Marine is charged in the indictment with being an accessory after the fact.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - As part of an international effort to disrupt narcotics trafficking on the darknet, members of the Los Angeles Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) Task Force today announced cases brought as a result of Operation DisrupTor. The cases charge members of a Southern California...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Self-Identified Left-Wing Anarchist Began by Spray Painting “A" on Marked SUV.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Brien Keith Powell, 51, of Shreveport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter. Powell was sentenced to 168 months for Possession of Crack Cocaine, and 60 months for Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A prior sex offender in Neosho, Missouri, was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Good morning. Operation DisrupTor was coordinated by the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement team, also known as JCODE. JCODE began in 2018 as an FBI-led, multi-agency initiative to target criminal activity on the darknet-especially the trafficking of fentanyl and other opioids. Operation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: $870,000 in Bribes Allegedly Paid to Ecuadorian Government Officials to Win a $300 Million Oil Contract.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, cosponsored a bipartisan bill that would extend two key deadlines for the 2020 Census by four months and require the Census Bureau to continue field operations through Oct. 31,...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 68-year-old aquaculture company owner has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of sex trafficking of a minor female, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: 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.
