News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to two years’ (24 months’) imprisonment and two years of supervised release on her conviction of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Fort Pulaski National Monument is seeking public input regarding proposed replacement of the roof on the historic Quarantine Attendants’ Cottage currently used as park headquarters.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Benjamin John Woodring, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to drug distribution, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Prosecution Came as Part of Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: MIAMI -Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Miami Field Office announced that Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, 60, of Tracy, California pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Marcia G. Cooke, to a single count indictment charging him with attempted destruction of an aircraft.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Trent Shores announced today that the Northern District of Oklahoma collected $3,199,436.92 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2019. Of this amount, $1,211,753.29 was collected in criminal actions and $1,987,683.63 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Fort Mill, South Carolina, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count each of conspiracy to defraud the Pennsylvania Medicaid program and health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: SAN JOSE - Janardhan Nellore pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit securities fraud, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation, Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The guilty plea was accepted by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas and Thomas Noyes, Inspector in Charge of the U. S. Postal Inspection Service’s Fort Worth Division, announced today that Joshua Wayne Williams was arraigned yesterday on federal charges. A federal grand jury in the Western District of Arkansas indicted Williams on four counts of Theft of Mail last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Dec. 17, 2019, United States District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo sentenced Nigel Deshawn Velardo, age 23, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to 98 months’ imprisonment and a four-year term of supervised release, for being in possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. electric grid is a critical component to our nation’s economy and everyday life. While electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) and significant geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs) are characterized as low probability/high impact events, their physical and economic impacts would be substantial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Rocky Cottrell, 37, a former resident of Clovis, was sentenced on Dec. 6 by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to 20 years in prison, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release, for production of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Dec. 18, 2019 - Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities Service Administrator Chad Rupe announced USDA has invested $5.6 million in two, high-speed broadband infrastructure projects that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for more than 3,250 rural households...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that KENDALL BARNES, age 23, of New Orleans, pled guilty on Dec. 17, 2019 to a superseding bill of information charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, to possession with the intent to distribute heroin, to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, and to obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Shaun Salazar, 59, Bonner Springs, Kan., is charged with one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, one count of unlawful possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. The crimes are alleged to have occurred Dec. 15, 2018, in Wyandotte County, Kan.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released the following statement regarding the Trump administration’s announcement of a proposed rule to allow certain prescription drugs to be imported from Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Mark Wesley Schmit (50, Jacksonville) to 20 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. Schmit was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: More than $3.2 Million Will Support Efforts to Combat Drugs and Crime.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a funding opportunity for small-scale water efficiency projects as part of the WaterSMART Program. The projects funded with these grants include installation of flow measurement devices and automation technology, canal lining or piping to address seepage, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A New York man was charged with traveling to New Jersey to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor under the age of 16 and transporting the minor from New Jersey to New York to engage in criminal sexual activity, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
