News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: A man who abused his wife for years, eventually forcing her to leave Iowa with their children was sentenced today to more than six years in federal prison.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson delivered the following opening statement at today's House Agriculture Committee Member Day.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Luray, Virginia: In 2020, The Shenandoah National Park Trust aims to raise funds to support programs and projects in Shenandoah National Park totaling nearly $1 million. Their generous support will make an enormous positive impact on the park for years to come. The programs for 2020 include.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Gheorghe Cirstea, age 33, and a citizen of Romania, was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for conspiring to steal bank customers’ account information and personal identification numbers (PINs) by using skimming devices that he secretly installed on bank ATMs in the Capital Region from August through October 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced that on Dec. 10, 2019, a federal grand jury indicted Michael C. Siegel (age 52) formerly of Clyman and currently of Fox Lake, Wisconsin, and Scott D. Hoeft (age 40) of Watertown, Wisconsin, for offenses related to the operation of the Hardware Store, a strip club located in Dodge County.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - A federal jury has found Felix Antequera Rivera, Jr. (33, Lakeland) guilty of possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, and up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 10, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Today we announce the installation of a new temporary art exhibit in the Big Thicket National Preserve Visitor Center. Entitled “The Many Colors of the Big Thicket", this art installation was created in partnership with the International Fiber Collaborative, which worked with students from across the...
By State Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement about Turkey’s resettlement of Syrian refugees in territory formerly inhabited by the country’s Kurdish population...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HUSAIN REDMOND, also known as “Pullie," 39, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 63 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a New Haven drug trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Baton Rouge, LA - Two suspects from the Dec. 01, 2019 early morning shooting of twelve persons on the edge of the French Quarter in the 700 block of Canal Street in New Orleans, LA were arrested on Dec. 10, 2019, after a multi-agency investigative operation involving the New Orleans Police Department...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Thomas K. Lagan, age 61, of Cooperstown, New York, and formerly of Slingerlands, New York, was sentenced today to 78 months in prison, to be followed by 2 years of supervised release, for money laundering and filing a false tax return in connection with the theft of approximately $11.8 million from estates for which he served as a fiduciary.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Richard Eugene Derringer, 47, previously of Junction City, Kentucky, was sentenced to 100 years in federal prison, on Wednesday, before Chief United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for the production of child pornography and distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Robert Kirk, age 36, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty yesterday to sexually exploiting a child, and to distributing and possessing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: International Falls, Minn.: The National Park Service (NPS) at Voyageurs National Park is seeking input from the public related to tour boat operations in the park. This public input will be used to aide in development of management options for future potential operations of this public service. You...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging Michael Wedington, Jr., age 19, of Baltimore, Maryland, with conspiracy, taking a motor vehicle by threats or violence, and with possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, in connection with two carjackings.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Ronald Manns Seaman, Jr. (50, Tampa) to 30 years in federal prison for production of child pornography. Seaman had pleaded guilty on Nov. 28, 2018.
By State Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today voted to approve the Promoting American National Security and Preventing the Resurgence of ISIS Act (S.2641). The comprehensive legislation, authored by Chairman Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), is a direct congressional response to Turkey’s military incursion into northeast Syria and attack on the Kurds, as well as their purchase of the Russian S-400 defense system.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - A jury voted yesterday to convict Alfredo Carballo Nava, age 26, a citizen of Mexico staying in Homer, New York, of one count of immigration fraud for using a counterfeit permanent resident card. The jury acquitted the defendant of one count of social security fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Darius Carter, 40, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was convicted today at trial of two counts of Hobbs Act Robbery (i.e., robbery which interferes with interstate commerce) arising from the robbery of two cell phone stores on the same block in the Fairhill section of North Philadelphia, both within one week in October 2018.
