News from December 2019

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney John H. Durham, New Haven State’s Attorney Patrick Griffin, Special Agent in Charge Brian C. Turner of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hamden Police Chief John Cappiello and New Haven Police Chief Otoniel Reyes today announced that a federal grand...

By US DOT Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Today, U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., chairman and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Reps. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., and Sam Graves, R-Mo., chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, ...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Philip M. Close, 42, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with production of child pornography. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30 years, and a $250,000 fine.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Two men have pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to child sex crimes charges, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - The National Park Service at New River Gorge National River is announcing new hours for Sandstone Visitor Center for the coming winter season. Due to reduced winter visitation, Sandstone Visitor Center will be closed from December 9, 2019 through spring of 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jose Fontanez, age 38, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 135 months in prison for stealing, possessing, concealing, and storing firearms stolen from Target Sports, Inc., a federally licensed firearms dealer in Schenectady County.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: New York Man Pleads Guilty to Providing Material Support to Terrorists.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Donald Geiss, Jr. to Serve More Than 5 Years in Prison.

By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM and cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho have been working with a local small business to create mock-ups of critical equipment needed to treat 900,000 gallons of liquid radioactive waste from underground tanks at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory Site.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jose Manuel Diaz-Montelongo, 32, of Roswell, New Mexico was sentenced yesterday in federal court to 207 months in prison for discharging a firearm during a drug trafficking crime and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years in prison on his conviction of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-David Carl Paulsen, 33, of Bend, Oregon, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in federal prison and two years’ supervised release for illegally manufacturing and possessing marijuana during a March 2018 butane honey oil (BHO) explosion in Bend.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. -The Bureau of Land Management plans to gather and remove approximately 25 wild horses from private land in Moffat County this month using a bait-trapping technique.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: This information pertains to December 2019 and January 2020.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Tech Tuesday-Online Shopping. Welcome to the Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday segment. Today we look at building a digital defense as you race to finish your holiday shopping. This just in - a red alert straight from the big guy at the North Pole: we are just two weeks away from Christmas! Are you ready?
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced today the arrests of LAGARIA SLAUGHTER and TANNER HOWELL, both of whom are service members stationed at a base in New York...

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released the following statement regarding the announcement of a deal on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Anthony Eugene Wiggins, age 40, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to a string of robberies, including five bank robberies and five armed robberies at liquor stores, committed between Sept. 24, 2018 and Nov. 15, 2018, as well as an attempted...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Jeremy Nunway (age: 40), a former resident of the Menominee Indian Reservation, received a sentence in separate cases in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in Green Bay. Nunway, an...