News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A New York man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for his role as a source of supply in a two-year drug conspiracy that trafficked 5 kilograms of heroin from New York to Richmond.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: HOBBS, N.M. - Acting Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today announced that Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) state offices generated $1.1 billion from oil and gas lease sales in calendar year 2018, an amount nearly equal to the BLM’s budget for Fiscal Year 2018, and the highest-grossing...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 6 marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the FBI, and the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section (HRSP) of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, all members of the Human Rights...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management today announced it will hold a meeting of the Southwest Resource Advisory Council (RAC), demonstrating that partnerships are vital to managing sustainable, working public lands. The public is welcome to attend the meeting which will occur on Friday, March 8, 2019, at the Dolores Public Lands Center, 29211 Hwy. 184, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement during the hearing entitled, “Preventing Gun Violence: A Call to Action"...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; New York Division, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced that Carlique DeBerry, 40, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of distribution of fentanyl causing death, was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Covington admitted to distributing between 500 grams and 1.5 kilograms of meth in Hamblen County.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: TULSA, Okla. -A former Tulsa resident has been sentenced today in U.S. District Court for committing wire fraud and for signing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Tamesha Lewis, 36, of Shubuta, Mississippi, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate, to making a false statement to a licensed firearms dealer in connection with purchasing a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Poplar man was sentenced today to six years and eight months in prison and to three years of supervised release after he admitted beating to death a man during a quarrel in July 2017, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted today in federal court in Boston for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Stephani Taylor, age 26, of Plymouth, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Feb. 1, 2019, to using a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking crime before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, leaders of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure wrote a letter to Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kirstjen M. Nielsen, expressing their opposition to a request from the Governor of Puerto Rico to waive the Jones Act for ten years...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Stephani Taylor, age 26, of Plymouth, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Feb. 1, 2019, to using a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking crime before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: VIDE O . Nearly fourteen months ago, Congress passed historic tax legislation that fundamentally reformed our tax code and provided tax relief to middle-income Americans and job creators. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act made good on our commitment to provide significant tax relief to middle-income taxpayers,...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Darin Hamilton, also known as “Satch," and Jerome Jones, also known as “Sha," for their participation in the 1992 murders of Anthony Lloyd and Robert Arroyo. Specifically, Hamilton is charged with the intentional murder of Anthony...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of PISANU SUKHTIPYAROGE, a/k/a “Pat," 72, owner of the Royal Orchid Restaurant, to 42 months in prison for visa fraud and alien harboring. The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Wilson, age 25, of Hanover Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Jan. 30, 2019, to distributing heroin and unlawfully possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced two indictments charging 14 people with a multitude of crimes, including conspiracy to dispense and distribute controlled substances outside the course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose; distribution...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN-04), the Chair of the Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcomittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcomittee's hearing on "The Power of the Purse: A Review of Agency Spending Restrictions During a Shutdown".
