News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge J. Michael Gannon and United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that two drug-trafficking organizations with fifteen total members were indicted by a grand jury for charges of drug-trafficking, unlawful use of a communication facility and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The cases were investigated and prosecuted by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 22 Michigan counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers who suffered losses due to recent weather events may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) deportation officers removed an Albanian national Monday, who is wanted in his home country to serve a 25-year prison sentence for theft resulting in death and illegal possession of firearms.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) today expanded a bipartisan investigation into surprise...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is proud to provide a wide range of services that promote the marketing of U.S. agricultural products throughout the United States and the world. In 2019 AMS supported both new and established industries through its efforts to create national standards for agricultural products and to improve tools and resources for our customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: A man who illegally possessed a firearm was sentenced today to more than two years in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) sent a letter today to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai in response to the FCC’s recent announcement that the Mobility Fund Phase II (MF II) will be replaced with a new 5G Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two more residents of Western Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to drug trafficking in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Seattle - A former project manager for Portland, Oregon-based shipbuilder Vigor Marine LLC, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 51 months in prison for his scheme to defraud his employer out of approximately $1.5 million, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. SHELTON LAYNE SMITH...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn and the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs announced that the Department of Justice has awarded funding of more than over $62 million to provide services designed to protect officers and improve overall public safety. OJP’s Bureau of Justice...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Browning man who admitted to sexually molesting two children on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 27 months in prison, a lifetime of supervised release and ordered to pay $442 restitution, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A former Hampton police detective pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Jose Manuel Romero-Parada, 25, formerly of Indianapolis, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 480 months in prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Subcommittee Ranking Member Bob Latta (R-OH) sent a letter today to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai in response to the FCC’s recent announcement that the Mobility Fund Phase II (MF II) will be replaced with a new 5G Fund.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) today expanded a bipartisan investigation into surprise...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report on facial recognition technology...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - This week, Alonzo Anagal, of Kayenta, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 15 years of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release. Anagal had previously pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and assault of a child resulting in serious bodily injury.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement today after the Senate passed their anti-robocalls bill, the Pallone-Thune TRACED Act, by unanimous consent. The House of Representatives passed the bill by a vote of 417-3 earlier this month...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that two Anchorage men have been charged for their roles in the December 2019 armed robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., branch located at 5740 Debarr Road in Anchorage.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Spearfish, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.