News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of Clairton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to maintaining a drug-involved premises, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced today that the full Committee will hold a hearing on Jobs and Opportunity: Federal Perspectives on the Jobs Gap on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 10:00AM in 1100 Longworth House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that John Oliveira, 32, of Bangor was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 27 months in prison and three years of supervised release for distributing fentanyl. Oliveira pleaded guilty to the charges on April 17, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Allegheny County residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of damaging railroad signals and equipment, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that an Anchorage man was sentenced to federal prison for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of opium, and for possession of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 216 months in prison for robbing a Newark jewelry store and then stealing a car at gunpoint immediately afterwards, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was arrested yesterday and appeared in federal court in Boston for failure to register as a sex offender.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today voted against the nomination of John Ring for the National Labor Relations Board. In a floor speech yesterday, Senator Murray also spoke about the unprecedented nature in which John Ring’s nomination is being jammed through the Senate-especially as so many other nominees have been waiting six months to be confirmed. Murray noted...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced today that Brittney Neal (Age: 24) and Cedric L. Glosson (Age: 23) had been indicted for armed carjackings in Milwaukee. Both defendants were charged with one count of motor vehicle robbery and one count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - To ensure the security of airline passengers and the nation’s airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will begin implementing new, stronger screening procedures for carry-on items at Wilmington International Airport (ILM) on April 14. The new procedures, which were...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Milton, Sr., 42, of Buffalo, NY pleaded guilty to production of child pornography, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30 years, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Darwin Good was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison for heroin trafficking and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of heroin trafficking in July 2016, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: Shipped 45 Pounds of Meth from Arizona to Iowa.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: Children and their families can join in a variety of free, hands-on activities including a touch table with animal skins and skulls, talk to a real wildland firefighter, run in a relay race, dress up in a uniform, or complete a Junior Ranger activity book.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement regarding House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) decision to retire at the end of his term.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: DENVER - A member of a Darknet drug trafficking organization was sentenced Wednesday to 36 months’ imprisonment for importing controlled substances.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a legislative hearing on S. 2602, the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies (USE IT) Act.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following questions raised by Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) in today’s Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook has taken action to remove illegal online pharmacy ads.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: Bulgarian National Arrested for Conspiracy to Defraud the United States and Illegally Export Prohibited Articles to Syria in Violation of U.S. Export Control Laws.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) and Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), along with Subcommittee on Health Ranking Member Sandy Levin (D-MI) and Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL), released a white paper with solutions to combat the opioid epidemic.
