News from February 2019

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Kenneth Dunn, 60, of Nashua, was sentenced to 36 months of probation and 6 months of home confinement for making false statements to obtain federal employee disability benefits, announced United States Attorney Scott W. Murray.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ten people are facing federal drug trafficking charges in New Mexico following an 11-month investigation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Lea County Drug Task Force.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Defendant Surgically Implanted Liquid Heroin in Puppies to Smuggle Narcotics.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JERRY CAMPBELL (“CAMPBELL"), age 60, of Avondale, Louisiana, entered a plea of guilty yesterday to Theft of Government Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Robert Ian Thatcher, 31, of Elmira, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, U-47700 and 100 grams or more of furanyl fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 23 years in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Beaver County resident has been charged in a Superseding Indictment by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Local children and teens who like art and wildflowers will have a chance to combine both in Shenandoah National Park’s annual “Youth Art in the Park" wildflower art contest. The contest is held in conjunction with the park’s annual Wildflower Weekend May 11-12, 2019.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: The United States is making exciting changes to how computer models will be developed in the future to support the nation’s weather and climate forecast system. NOAA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have joined forces to help the nation’s weather and climate modeling scientists achieve mutual benefits through more strategic collaboration, shared resources and information.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: FBI Miami Announces Nominee for 2018 Director’s Community Leadership Award.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: As Prepared for Delivery. M. President, the first tax filing season under Trump’s tax law is upon us, and it looks like a whole lot of chickens are coming home to roost. Republicans jammed their bill through the Congress at record speed. Pile-driver legislating. The bill was signed into law with a whopping...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a California man convicted of Interstate Communications of Threats to Injure was sentenced on February 4, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Pecos, NM: Beginning February 7th, 2019, Pecos National Historical Park will offer spring fishing permits for the Pecos River within the park boundaries. The 2019 spring fishing season will begin March 7th and end April 15th.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ten people are facing federal drug trafficking charges in New Mexico following an 11-month investigation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Lea County Drug Task Force.

By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today U.S. Senator Patty Murray issued the following statement on the Department of Justice (DOJ) announcement that its Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has opened an investigation into the DOJ’s prosecution of serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - More than 220 participants from 13 Houston-area public safety agencies and 20 industry partners tested first responder technology integration in a December exercise at the Port of Houston. Led by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T)...

By State Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sens. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) issued the following statement announcing that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will take up S. Res. 27, a resolution calling for the cancellation of the ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Sarita Ranch Provission Inc., Los Angeles, Calif., for failure to pay for produce.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: A third individual has been indicted on charges related to the armed robbery of gold bars.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) issued the following statement regarding the introduction of a House Resolution for the Green New Deal.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: A contractor from North Royalton was indicted for paying cash bribes to a City of Cleveland building official.