News from April 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) issued the following statement on the passage of the Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan Authorization Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland has charged Rondell Henry, age 28, of Germantown, Maryland, by criminal complaint with interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle. Today, the government filed a motion arguing for Henry to be detained pending trial as a...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today hailed House passage of the Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan Authorization Act, which he introduced April 2. Thanks to Grijalva’s leadership, the House approved the bill - formally designated H.R. 2030 - by a voice vote, expediting passage and avoiding procedural hurdles to get the bill closer to President Trump’s desk as fast as possible.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Anthony Rondel Blair, Jason Arias, Daniel Newton, David Lomba Barros, Angelica Dominique Cuyugan Tuzon, Shondra Vernon, Michelle Rosa, and Madison Renee Kelleher have been indicted for their roles in a criminal network that imported cocaine into the United States from Costa Rica and laundered the proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: A Lima man was indicted on charges of using firearms while trafficking cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Quondall D. Davis, 24, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with sex trafficking of a minor and sex trafficking of an adult by force. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a scheme to steal credit cards from the mail, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Dominican national previously deported from the United States on three occasions pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence today to trafficking heroin and fentanyl, and illegal reentry into the United States, announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman, Rhode Island State Police Superintendent James M. Manni, and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Peter C. Fitzhugh.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Sean R. Fabian, age 41, of Plattsburgh, New York, was convicted on Friday, following a four-day jury trial, of conspiring to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Edward Gonzalez, age 30, of Hazelton, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 2, 2019, for drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: Victim Witness Coordinator Polly Montano (619) 546-8921.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: A Ravenna man was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for drug and firearms crimes.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: Denver-The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will hold 12 public workshops between April 29, 2019 and May 16, 2019 in and around Denver about proposed airspace improvements over the metropolitan area.
By State Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON -U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were joined by a group of 15 of their Senate colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo encouraging him to raise key issues and concerns with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at their scheduled bilateral meeting later this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: ASHLAND, Ky. - Kimberly Dawn Moore, 26, of Flat Woods, Kentucky, was sentenced today, to 120 months in federal prison, by United States District Court Judge David L. Bunning, for conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS, Montana -- Reclamation's April forecast of the April through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn Basin is as follows...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: Pipestone, MN - Pipestone National Monument has scheduled a prescribed burn during the period of April 22 - May 18, 2019. When appropriate wind, temperature, and humidity conditions exist within this date range, approximately 100 acres of the tall grass prairie will be burned. Additional information will be provided to park neighbors and the media when the appropriated conditions are forecasted and the specific date of the prescribed burn is determined.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - After a one-day bench trial, a Las Vegas resident was convicted of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Jackson, Ohio man has agreed to plead guilty in U.S. District Court to orchestrating a $50 million dollar Ponzi scheme that defrauded at least 46 investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2019
News Release: PLANO, Texas - An 18-year-old Plano man has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to prison for plotting a terrorist attack at a Collin County, Texas shopping mall, announced Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis and United States Attorney Joseph D. Brown jointly today.
