News from December 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement about the deal on the United States Mexico Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) that House Democrats reached with the U.S. Trade Representative...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Robert Benjamin Jones, 33 of Ocean Springs, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to 23 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Jere T. Miles with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Cincinnati -- The Office of Environmental Management (EM) is issuing a task order for a lease for storage space as a DOE facility for the long-term management and storage of elemental mercury to address DOE’s responsibility as required by Section 5 of the Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008, as amended by...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A resident of Braddock, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of drug trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Denver Police Department Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Staten Island, New York, man has admitted robbing a New Jersey business owner in February 2019, defrauding eight New Jersey businesses from July 2016 through January 2019, and defrauding and stealing the identities of three women, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte today sentenced Rebecca Jelfo, age 47, of Silver Spring, Maryland, to 41 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a federal wire fraud charge in related to a scheme Jelfo executed to defraud two employers...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Half of the park. is after dark! Join us as we begin our 5th season of Park After Dark programming. This year's season consists of four evening programs that gives everybody the chance to enjoy the park after the sun goes down.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
Release: ALBANY, NY - A Troy, New York, man was caught bringing a loaded handgun to the checkpoint at Albany International Airport on Sunday, December 8. Transportation Security Administration officers caught the man with a 9 mm handgun loaded with seven bullets, including one in the chamber.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM recently declared the first phase of closure complete for an underground waste tank central to a pilot project designed to accelerate cleanup at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Qué: La Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos ofrecerá a los suscriptores un periodo de acceso restringido para revisar las nuevas estadísticas sobre las estimaciones de cinco años de la Encuesta sobre la Comunidad Estadounidense para el periodo de 2014 a 2018, que abarcan más de 40 temas sociales...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a package of bills originally heard in the Natural Resources Committee to protect vulnerable coastal and Great Lakes communities impacted by the climate crisis. Rep. Derek Kilmer’s (D-Wash.) Coastal and Great Lakes Communities Enhancement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Pamela Emanuel, 59, of San Jose, pleaded guilty today for her role in a scheme to defraud the state of California by filing false unemployment insurance claims, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that a lengthy federal investigation into an extensive drug trafficking network based in Plaquemine, Louisiana, has resulted in the return of a grand jury indictment charging five (5) individuals with narcotics and firearms-related offenses. As...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Levy Steven Moore, age 49, of Pollocksville, North Carolina, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Maryland to the federal charge of murder resulting from using, carrying, brandishing, and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Fred Arena, 41, of Salem, NJ, entered a plea of guilty before United States District Court Judge John R. Padova on charges of making false statements to government agents. Arena, who was an employee of a federal contractor at the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Gary Zeitvogel, 45, of Gates, NY, pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The charge carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: A Broken Arrow man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for possessing a firearm in furtherance of cocaine distribution crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Law Enforcement Seize www.fosterscareinc.com, an Internet Forum Believed to Facilitate Sex Trafficking.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Thirty-four people died in a tragic boat fire on Sept. 2, 2019, off the coast of Santa Cruz Island, California. Five crew members escaped with injuries after calling for help, but the intense fire aboard the Conception dive boat left the other victims unrecognizable. Thanks to a technology funded...
