News from February 2019
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation released the Biological Assessment for the re-initiation of consultation on the coordinated long-term operation of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project. The document was transmitted to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announced that today, United States District Judge Louise Flanagan sentenced RONNELL MELVIN, 32, of New Hanover County to 83 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. On Oct. 18, 2018, MELVIN pled guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession with intent to distribute a quantity of heroin and cocaine base (crack).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - The public has extra time to comment about proposed telecommunications infrastructure on Death Valley’s Rogers Peak. Due to disruptions from the 5-week government shutdown, the National Park Service has extended the public comment opportunity through February 25. The proposed changes would increase the area’s cellular service and affect some views.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Statement of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) following the President’s State of the Union address...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - An Illinois accountant was charged today with criminal fraud for allegedly misappropriating more than $65 million from individuals and financial institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Arthur Taylor, age 36, of Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Feb. 1, 2019, before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO), and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) welcomed the U.S. Senate’s passage of the Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act of 2019 (S. 1) in an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 77 to 23.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Indian Energy, Sandia National Laboratories is now accepting applications for a 12-week internship based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Interns will gain first-hand experience with existing tribal energy projects and exposure to issues concerning tribal energy technology use and application.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 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 Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Michael Bennet of Colorado reintroduced their bipartisan bill to improve health outcomes and care coordination for children with complex medical conditions in Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of a charging Deborah Pierre (31, Haines City), Billy Altidor (28, Wellington), and Evanie Louis (26, Wellington) with conspiracy to commit theft of government property, theft of government property, and aggravated identity...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - On Feb. 5, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced a West Hazleton, Pennsylvania man, was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for receiving child pornography, following a joint investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Philadelphia and the Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was indicted today in federal court in Boston in connection with an August 2018 computer intrusion of a Massachusetts company.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Kenneth R. Beckner, of Moundsville, West Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand today on drug charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRANDON SPENCE, also known as “Spun," 31, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a loaded handgun.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: MOAB, UT- Park officials plan to burn piles of dead vegetation in Upper Courthouse Wash at Arches National Park beginning the week of February 10. Burns may occur through the end of the month as conditions allow.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: RENO, Nev. - The Vice Chief of Staff for Humboldt County General Hospital in Winnemucca, Nevada, pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegally writing prescriptions for dangerous and addictive narcotics, such as the opioids Oxycodone and Hydrocodone, without a medical purpose, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich of the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man pleaded guilty today to his role in a string of grocery store robberies during the Fall of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announced that today, United States District Judge Louise Flanagan sentenced RONNELL MELVIN, 32, of New Hanover County to 83 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. On Oct. 18, 2018, MELVIN pled guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession with intent to distribute a quantity of heroin and cocaine base (crack).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Timothy Holt, 27, formerly of Susanville, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to 21 months in prison and three years of supervised release for transportation of obscene matters, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
