News published on Federal Newswire in March 2018

News from March 2018


News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Anthony Renard Wynn, age 47, of Randallstown, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and 400 grams or more of fentanyl.


ICYMI: President Trump Calls on Congress to Pass Right to Try

News Release: WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass right to try legislation during a speech in Manchester, N.H. today. U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is the lead author of S.204, the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello,...


New Orleans Man Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Violating the Federal Gun Control Act

News Release: DORIAN GIVENS, age 30, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced today by the Honorable Susie Morgan for violating the Federal Gun Control Act, announced U.S. Attorney Duane Evans.


News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - The storms from the past year and a half, especially the EF-2 tornado that struck the park in May, 2017, have taken a great toll on the Fort Pulaski flagpole. During recent investigative work by structural engineers, additional corrosion to the guy wire system that supports the garrison...


News Release: The FBI is Seeking the Public's Assistance Regarding a Bank Robbery.


Grand Rapids Man Sentenced to 188 Months in Federal Prison for Firearm Offense

News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Ralph Lamont Blevins, 39, of Grand Rapids, Michigan was sentenced to 188 months (15 years, 8 months) in federal prison for illegally possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Andrew B. Birge announced today.


News Release: Today, the three House Democratic leaders of the Committees with jurisdiction over health care, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), and Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), released a joint statement denouncing the Republicans’ partisan proposal regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace...


Committee-Led Ceiling Fan Legislation Clears Full House of Representatives

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously passed S. 2030, the Ceiling Fan Conservation Harmonization Act by voice vote. Nearly identical legislation authored by Rep. Richard Hudson (H.R. 3477 ) passed the committee in January.


Denver Jury Convicts Cocaine Trafficker

News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado today announces that Carlos Fernandez-Barron aka “Carlitos" was convicted in the United States District Court for conspiring to distribute, and possessing with intent to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine. A Denver jury returned the verdict in federal court today, acquitting him of two other charges.


DOE, FERC, and EPA Set to Testify Before Energy and Commerce in April

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Subcommittee on Environment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today announced the dates of three additional budget and oversight hearings for the committee.


Democratic Health Leaders Oppose GOP’s Health Proposal

News Release: Today, the three House Democratic leaders of the Committees with jurisdiction over health care, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), and Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), released a joint statement denouncing the Republicans’ partisan proposal regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace...


News Release: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that on March 15, 2018, Senior United States District Court Judge Hugh Lawson sentenced Michael Trevor Haynes, age 37, of Moultrie, GA, to 98 months imprisonment for possession of a firearm by a person previously convicted of domestic violence and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously passed S. 2030, the Ceiling Fan Conservation Harmonization Act by voice vote. Nearly identical legislation authored by Rep. Richard Hudson (H.R. 3477 ) passed the committee in January.


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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously passed S. 2030, the Ceiling Fan Conservation Harmonization Act by voice vote. Nearly identical legislation authored by Rep. Richard Hudson (H.R. 3477 ) passed the committee in January.


DOE, FERC, and EPA Set to Testify Before Energy and Commerce in April

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Subcommittee on Environment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today announced the dates of three additional budget and oversight hearings for the committee.


Man arrested at Newark Airport after TSA catches him with a handgun concealed in a shoebox

Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A man was arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport this morning, March 19, after a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer detected a handgun frame concealed inside a sneaker box at a checkpoint in Terminal A.


Convicted Felon Sentenced to 44 Months in Federal Prison

News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Bobby Eric Spates, age 26, of Florence, SC, was sentenced in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for Felon in Possession of a Firearm. United States District Judge Bryan Harwell, of Florence, sentenced Spates to 44 months in federal prison with 3 years of supervised release to follow.


News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Decatur man pleaded guilty today in federal court to kidnapping and child sex-trafficking charges as part of a detailed plan to hire someone to kidnap a woman and her 14-year-old daughter, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.


Middletown Cocaine and Crack Dealer Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison

News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that COLLYER GOODMAN, a/k/a “West," was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in supplying at least 14 other drug dealers with cocaine and crack cocaine in Middletown, New York. GOODMAN was convicted...