News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Rochester, Ill., man has been arrested and charged by criminal complaint with making a threatening communication against U.S. Congressman Rodney Davis. Randall E. Tarr, 64, of the 200 block of E. Mill St., Rochester, Ill., was arrested today and appeared in federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Tom Schanzle-Haskins in Springfield.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: NEEDLES, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on the Environmental Assessment and a proposed modification to the Plan of Operations for the Castle Mountain Mine located in San Bernardino County. Public comments on this EA must be submitted to the BLM by Jan. 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD - A South Beloit man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly to charges of producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging 11 individuals with federal drug trafficking offenses. Ahmad Rashad Weston, a/k/a “Blood," (42, St. Petersburg); Charleston Shellie Long, a/k/a “Shellie," (38, St. Petersburg); Shyron Deonta Givens...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: As part of the Project Safe Childhood initiative, four men pleaded guilty or were sentenced this week in U.S. District Court, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Rochester, Ill., man has been arrested and charged by criminal complaint with making a threatening communication against U.S. Congressman Rodney Davis. Randall E. Tarr, 64, of the 200 block of E. Mill St., Rochester, Ill., was arrested today and appeared in federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Tom Schanzle-Haskins in Springfield.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that LATRICE M. COLVIN, 33, of Bridgeport, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 30 days of imprisonment, followed by seven months of home confinement and two years of supervised release, for operating a credit card fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI -United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that Ashen Tirado-Tapia, Jahniel Fuertes-Robles, and Abdiel Rivera-Medina pleaded guilty yesterday to attempting to smuggle over $1 million into St. Thomas by boat.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Four men have been charged with attempted enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. Rolando Hernandes, Mark Hanna, James Daniel Stinchcomb, and William Sage were arrested separately for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and committee member Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) introduced legislation Thursday to allow the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to issue subpoenas compelling Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to offer information when vulnerabilities are detected on critical infrastructure systems.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - Building on the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to reduce the threat of wildfires through active management, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Montana/Dakotas 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 12, 2019
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Jefferson City, Missouri, man has been convicted by a federal jury of providing false information in two unsuccessful attempts to purchase firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that, on December 4, 2019, a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned an indictment charging VAUGHN THOMAS, also known as “Fettiboy LV," 20, of Bridgeport, with retaliating against a federal grand jury witness.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the House of Representatives voted 230-192 in favor of passing H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act. Pallone introduced the landmark legislation earlier this year, which now advances to the Senate for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Dec. 10, 2019, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Richard Garner (age: 55) of Rancho Cucamonga, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. -Otha Ray Flowers, 37, of Jackson, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Henry T. Wingate to 10 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Tammy Fox, 49, of Carrolton, Illinois, was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of wire fraud related to her former position as Office Manager of Explosive Professionals Midwest, Incorporated, also known as ExPro Midwest.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the House of Representatives voted 230-192 in favor of passing H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act. Pallone introduced the landmark legislation earlier this year, which now advances to the Senate for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A California man was sentenced here today for crimes involving more than $2 million in Department of Defense contracts.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, met today with Army and Air Force veteran Jim Holmes and his wife, Richelle, who recently lost their 17-year-old daughter, Kaela, to brain cancer after living for years at Patrick Air Force ...
