News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: Repeat offender had sold heroin and meth and possessed firearms at her home on Tulalip Reservation.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Houston - the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security that targets criminal and terrorist organizations that exploit America's travel, trade, financial and immigration systems - announced Friday its year-end statistics for fiscal year (FY) 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: Pipe Spring National Monument, AZ - Beginning Jan. 2, 2020, payments for park entrance fees, and Interagency Pass purchases at Pipe Spring National Monument will be by credit and debit card only. Cash and check payments will no longer be accepted. Visitors can pay via the following charge cards: American Express, Master Card, Visa, Discover and Diners International. As always, recreation passes will be honored for entrance fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - A discharged veteran of the military who reaped monetary benefits for faking a mental health condition triggered by a combat experience that did not occur, and who falsely claimed to have earned two of the highest honors bestowed for military service entered a guilty plea in federal court...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID FRANCIS, 41, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, NJ - ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Newark announced Dec. 6, that agency arrests for child exploitation have increased for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 over last year. HSI Newark also announced that it actively participates in the Angel Watch Program (AWP), which targets individuals previously convicted of sexual crimes against a child, and who may pose a threat of committing child sex tourism.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
Release: LINCOLN - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) begins offering Blended Lanes at Lincoln Airport. Blended Lanes provides TSA Pre✓® screening to confirmed TSA Pre✓® individuals and their accessible property at smaller airports that do not have a dedicated TSA Pre✓® checkpoint. At larger airports, Blended Lanes is utilized during off-peak hours when TSA Pre✓® passenger volume is too low for dedicated TSA Pre✓® lanes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS -Public Land Order (PLO) No.7890 was approved by the Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, Rob Wallace and provides a 20-year extension of a public land withdrawal established in 1999 by PLO 7419 for the Department of the Air Force (DAF) for safety purposes.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking public input on alternatives to reduce salinity in the Colorado River from sources in the Paradox Valley in western Colorado. Currently, the Paradox Valley Unit (PVU) in Montrose County, Colorado, is intercepting naturally occurring brine and...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: Roosevelt, AZ - Tonto National Monument invites the public to assist with the collection of bird data for the National Audubon Society’s 120th Annual Christmas Bird Count on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019. The bird count will be conducted during Monument hours from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Participants can...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid today sentenced a Rock Island, Ill., man, Justin Michael Kellett, 36, to 15 years in prison for illegal possession of a firearm by a felon. Kellett was ordered to remain on supervised release for five years following his release from prison. Kellett has remained in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service since his arrest in April 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: Bogdan Nicolescu, 37, and Radu Miclaus, 37, both from Bucharest, Romania, were sentenced to 20 years and 18 years, respectively, for their roles in a scheme to, among other things, infect more than 400,000 computers with malware and gain access to credit card and other information for later sale on dark market websites.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - 100 fewer cures. Storm clouds on the horizon. 88% reduction in number of drugs brought to market in California alone. This is Speaker Pelosi’s drug pricing scheme, and it will have devastating effects for Americans relying on innovative new medicines for hope.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ENRIQUE LARA, 37, of Chicago, Illinois, has been sentenced to fourteen years in prison for possessing with intent to distribute liquid methamphetamine concealed in the fuel tank of a tractor-trailer, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) in introducing the IMPACT Act, which would reinstate and expand reporting requirements to determine the impact of the more than 8,700 Opportunity Zones across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - DANIELLE FRANKLIN, age 28, and a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on December 5, 2019 to one count of assisting in the preparation of a fraudulent tax return before United States District Court Judge Eldon E. Fallon, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser of the Eastern District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: Fausto Isidro Meza-Flores, also known as “Chapo Isidro," has been charged in a superseding indictment with a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana for importation into the United States. Meza-Flores, a Mexican national who is believed to currently reside in Mexico, is the leader of the Meza-Flores Transnational Criminal Organization (TCO), a major drug trafficking organization based in Sinaloa, Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2019
News Release: California Man Pleads Guilty to Role in Million Dollar Scheme Targeting Thousands of U.S. Servicemembers and Veterans.
