News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: A Toledo man was charged in federal court for making threats against a member of Congress and illegally having ammunition.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: KINGMAN, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Kingman Field Office invites the public to provide input on a Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) remediation project at the abandoned COD Mine and Mill site, located on BLM-managed public land in the Cerbat Mountains north of Kingman, in Mohave County.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JOAQUIN ENRIQUE LOPEZ-JIRON, age 33, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty on Thursday, August 8, 2019 to a one-count bill of information charging him with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. ' 1326.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Received more than four years in federal prison for his cocaine and firearm possession near a local casino.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Darnell Catlett, 46, of Upper Marlboro, was sentenced today for his role as a leader of a nearly year-long crack and cocaine drug trafficking conspiracy in Washington, D.C. and Maryland, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Timothy Dunham, Special Agent in Charge, Criminal Division, FBI Washington Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: GUNNISON, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Southwest Colorado Fire and Aviation Management Unit is actively engaged on the Mill Gulch Fire, located in the Gunnison Field Office approximately 11 miles southwest of Lake City, Colorado. The lightning-caused wildfire was discovered on August 7, 2019 and is estimated to be 0.1 acres in size and currently smoldering in vegetation on the ground.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Norflok, VA - United States Marshals Service, in coordination with Norfolk Police Department, ATF, DEA, Norfolk Sheriff’s Office, Chesapeake Sheriff’s Office, and several other agencies, conducted Operation Washout, which is a U.S. Marshal led initiative that targets fugitive gang members. As a result, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Former Executives and Supervising Laboratory Technician Have Pleaded Guilty in Multi-Million Dollar Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has found Rose Beth Litzky (33, Palm Bay) guilty of conspiracy to produce child pornography, production of child pornography, and possession of child pornography, involving two female children. Both of the victims...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged a Columbus man with multiple crimes related to the sexual exploitation of minors. The man allegedly chatted with minor females on Instagram, Snapchat and other social media sites and requested that the girls send him videos of themselves engaged in sexual acts.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service Administrator Chad Rupe today announced that USDA is investing $181 million to upgrade rural electric systems in 10 states (PDF, 98 KB). The funding includes $7.7 million to finance smart grid technologies that improve system operations and monitor grid security.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Three parents have been charged and two have pleaded guilty to receiving their children’s Social Security disability payments while the children were not in their care.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An MS-13 gang member was sentenced today to more than five and a half years in prison for his leadership role and participation in a violent gang-related assault of a victim with multiple baseball bats.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A California man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Beginning Aug. 12-Sept. 30, the Bureau of Land Management Rio Puerco Field Office plans to conduct a prescribed fire in McKinley and Sandoval counties, weather permitting.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, the Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, sent...
By State Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, John Barrasso (R-WY), Cory Gardner (R-CO), Rick Scott (R-FL), Ron Johnson (R-WI), and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-Poplar resident Richard Allen Granbois, who admitted to possessing methamphetamine for distribution and possessing a firearms in connection with drug trafficking, was sentenced today to six years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON–Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan ordered today, effective immediately, rescission of the Public Notice regarding security conditions at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, Philippines (MNL) issued in December. The Notice was published on Dec. 27, 2018, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan is in Yuma, AZ to provide a tour of a Southwest border soft sided facility with media. Following the tour, he will host a press conference.
