News from December 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Guatemalan woman, who was previously convicted in 2008 for the Minnesota criminal vehicle deaths of four school children, and was later deported, was indicted in federal court Friday on three counts related to identify theft and illegal re-entry after deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: MIAMI, FL - U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida announced the successful completion of a Reentry Simulation yesterday at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami. More than 40 community members, officials and stakeholders attended the event, which simulates the struggles...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the U.S. and China announced a phase 1 trade agreement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A federal jury this morning found seven people guilty of conspiracy and mail fraud for participating in a decades-long, multi-million dollar telemarketing scheme that targeted thousands of small businesses and charities.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: NORMAN, Okla. - The Bureau of Land Management will hold a wild horse and burro event in Mercedes, Texas, Jan. 10-11 at the Rio Grande Valley Livestock Showgrounds. The two-day event, featuring 70 wild horses and burros, will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 10. Adoptions will be held from noon-6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 10, and from 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Jan. 11. Animals are eligible for adoption. Inquire with BLM staff onsite for more information.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Miami, Florida, yesterday returned a two-count indictment against Hialeah Police Department Officer Jesus Manuel Menocal Jr, 32, for depriving two women of their civil rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Peter Oliver Henry, 63, of New Orleans, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to possession with intent to distribute heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Mississippi Field Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: “Thank you, Chairman Neal. “Today our Committee will watch our Democrat colleagues champion a huge tax cut for millionaires and billionaires, while the middle class in America gets nothing. “We will debate their insistence on hiking taxes on small businesses across America to pay for their massive...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Help us combat disaster fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: A man arrested for two carjackings in June pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Santa Fe, NM - Building on the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to reduce the threat of wildfires through active management, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico State Office today issued a new policy to limit fire risk from power lines crossing BLM-managed public lands. The policy provides guidance for effective vegetation management within and adjacent to electric transmission and distribution line rights-of-way, also known as ROWs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Armand White, 32, of South Bend, Indiana, was charged in a criminal complaint for Hobbs Act robbery, bank robbery, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Jose Ricardo Loza and Randy Lee Walker were charged in a criminal complaint with distributing fentanyl and heroin, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Postal Inspector in Charge Rafael E. Nuñez, United States Postal Inspection Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Nov. 25, 2019, Melvin Woods, 26, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dominic W. Lanza to 84 months of imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release. Woods previously pleaded guilty to distribution of fentanyl resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Virginia Tax Lobbyist Sentenced to Prison for Filing a False Tax Return.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Thirteen men were indicted on Dec. 4, 2019, and charged in federal court in Boston with various drug trafficking offenses and money laundering.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a business meeting to consider legislation regarding the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) and a package of lands bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Sharon man pleaded guilty today to illegally retaining national defense information.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: On Dec. 11, 2019, Wade Garrett McWhorter, 26, of Vandalia, Illinois, was sentenced to 64.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Alford Robinson, 33, has been sentenced to 240 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm after he committed an armed robbery. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
