News from February 2019
By DOL Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, IL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has renewed an alliance with Teksolv-American Allied Safety Council (AASC), Southwestern Illinois Building Trades Council (SIBTC), and the Council of Owners and Construction Associates Inc. (COCA) to prevent exposures to hazards in the industrial and utility sectors.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Paul “Paco" Garcia, 39, of Barnhart, was charged in a federal indictment with one felony count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As part the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California’s strategy to reduce violent crime by focusing on firearms prosecutions, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced that a federal grand jury returned indictments today in the following cases involving illegal firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Prior conviction for similar offense did not deter Jon Draper from rearming.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Brandon Galette, 24, of Harrisburg, PA, and Andrew Garrett, 24, of Steelton, PA, were charged today by Indictment with one count of attempted robbery which interferes with interstate commerce and one count of using, carrying...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A California woman who was stopped in Chouteau County while driving a stolen vehicle was sentenced today to three years in prison and three years of supervised release for conviction on a firearms crime, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Shaun Pete Snyder, 34, of Kotzebue, has been indicted in federal court for drug trafficking charges. The indictment charges Snyder with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance, possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, and illegal use of a communication facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that five members of this Office will be honored for their exemplary service in cases that have had a profound impact on the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Assistant United States Attorneys Margaret Hutchinson, Nelson S.T.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated nine Louisiana parishes as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Bossier, Caddo, Evangeline, Grant, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, Rapides and Red River parishes who suffered losses caused by excessive rains and flooding that occurred Sept. 1 through Dec. 10, 2018, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Chester man was sentenced today to 27 years for robbing four convenience stores and the attempted robbery of another convenience store.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALVARADO DOMINGUEZ, a/k/a “Jochi," 32, was sentenced today to 279 months in prison for his participation in the “Hot Boys" robbery crew, including an Oct. 27, 2006, robbery that resulted in the murder...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging EDWARD KUMI ANGUAH, age 39, a United States citizen serving in the United States Army, KWAPHOOM EUGENE HOOMKWAP, age 30...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three Union County, New Jersey, men have been charged with robbing liquor stores at gunpoint in November 2018, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: A Cuban national was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for smuggling three women into the United States and requiring them to pay off an imposed debt through forced labor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-Missoula resident Gerald Eugene Kennedy, who admitted to distributing methamphetamine for two to three years, was sentenced today to six years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the Paris Climate Agreement on Thursday, Feb. 28, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated four Arkansas counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Arkansas, Lee, St. Francis and White counties who suffered losses caused by excessive rain that occurred Aug. 1 through Nov. 15, 2018, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Activities Planned at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in March 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today warned the Trump Administration against the ongoing promotion and approval of harmful Medicaid waivers, citing the significant coverage losses taking place in states like Arkansas and the Administration’s failure to appropriately track or evaluate the impact of the misguided policies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Sentences. Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced SHAUN MICHAEL SPRAGUE, 37, with no fixed address on February 5, 2019 for arson of a facility engaged in interstate commerce. Sprague was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received sixty months of imprisonment, to be followed by thirty-six...
