News published on Federal Newswire in December 2019

News from December 2019


Toledo Man Sentenced for Planning Terrorist Attack in Toledo’s Entertainment District

News Release: Vincent Armstrong, 24, was sentenced today to 72 months of incarceration for his involvement in planning a terrorist attack at a local Toledo bar. His co-defendant and live-in girlfriend, Elizabeth Lecron, was previously sentenced to 180 months of incarceration and lifetime supervised release.


Men Sentenced to Prison for Conspiring to Introduce Narcotics to Federal Prison in Butner, North Carolina

News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced federal inmate CHARLIE MORGAN to a 15-month term of imprisonment followed by a 3-year term of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute...


News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Miguel Sernas, age 41, of Mexico City, Mexico, was sentenced today to time served (approximately 12 months in jail) for conspiring to steal trade secrets from the General Electric Company (GE). Sernas was also ordered to pay restitution to GE in the amount of $1.4 million.


News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Employees with EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC) recently marked 1 million miles of safe driving to dispose of cleanup debris at the Hanford Site ’s Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility (ERDF). Check out this video for a day in the life of an ERDF driver.


News Release: Government Seeks to Return Statuette Dating to the Fifth Century B.C.E. to Italian Government.


News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Barry E. Sanders, 64, the former owner and CEO of Trailblazers, Inc., an auto and truck parts supply business formerly located in Lexington, was sentenced today, by Senior U.S. District Judge Joseph M. Hood, to 18 months imprisonment for bankruptcy fraud.


Lead Defendant Pleads Guilty in Drug Conspiracy That Produced, Distributed Powerful Synthetic Opioid

News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A Georgia man who operated an industrial-scale illegal pill-manufacturing operation has admitted to the main charge in a drug trafficking conspiracy, representing the final guilty plea among the defendants.


News Release: SAN JUAN, PR-Special Agent in Charge Douglas A. Leff, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) San Juan Field Office, announced the arrest of Jan Javier Fernandez Libed (Fernandez).


News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Aurora Police Department Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.


News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The magazine EHS Today has named EM’s Oak Ridge cleanup contractor UCOR one of America’s Safest Companies.


Expect Improvements and Closures on Eagle Lake Carriage Road in 2020 at Acadia National Park

News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- In 2020, the Eagle Lake Carriage Road in Acadia National Park will be rehabilitated to improve and stabilize the road surface and associated features. Recreationists should anticipate closures generally from one intersection to another from April 15-Nov. 15, weather and schedule...


U.S. Citizen Extradited from Brazil Sentenced for Wire Fraud Charges

News Release: BOSTON - A former accountant was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a $2 million wire fraud scheme.


News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years in jail on his conviction of malicious destruction of property by fire, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.


New Jersey Man, Avowed Member of White Supremacist Group, Pleads Guilty to Making False Statements

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...


News Release: Public's Assistance Sought to Apprehend Fugitive from Justice.


News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Delon Phillip Price, of Dearborn, Michigan, was sentenced today to 63 months incarceration for drug distribution, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.


McCaul and Engel Introduce Global Hope Act to Improve Childhood Cancer Survival Rate Worldwide

News Release: Washington D.C. - Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee introduced the Global Hope Act, legislation that will support efforts to help lower childhood cancer mortality rates in developing countries. While most prevalent forms of pediatric...


News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.


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...


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