News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two men have been sentenced for their roles in a three-months-long conspiracy that included at least 27 armed robberies, culminating in the armed robbery of a Walgreens in Blue Springs, Mo., in which a suspect was fatally shot by law enforcement officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Fatal Shoot-out with Police Ended Crime Spree.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - July 11, 2019 - Jeffery Durance, 36, of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and an inmate of the Tennessee Department of Correction, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury, charging him with mailing a threatening communication and conveying false information while threatening to use a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD), announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee and the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on management challenges and oversight of Department of State and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) programs.
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: The Czech Republic is a medium-sized, open, export-driven economy with 80 percent of its GDP based on exports, mostly from the automotive and engineering industries. According to the Czech Statistical Office, most of the country’s exports go to the European Union (EU), with 32.4 percent going to Germany ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration today hosted the first Surface Transportation Security Advisory Committee meeting, which was established in accordance with the TSA Modernization Act of 2018. The STSAC joins representatives of federal departments and agencies with surface transportation oversight with members representing surface transportation providers and users to provide recommendations on surface transportation security matters.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A former technician at a Chicago pharmacy has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for stealing thousands of pills of Hydrocodone and selling them for a profit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Ezekiel Jahpari Patterson, age 21, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Complaint Alleges Favro Sold More Than 10,000 Fentanyl-Laced Fake Oxycodone Pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two men have been sentenced for their roles in a three-months-long conspiracy that included at least 27 armed robberies, culminating in the armed robbery of a Walgreens in Blue Springs, Mo., in which a suspect was fatally shot by law enforcement officers.
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: France welcomes foreign investment and has a stable business climate that attracts investors from around the world. The French government devotes significant resources to attracting foreign investment through policy incentives, marketing, overseas trade promotion offices, and investor support mechanisms.
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: Lithuania is strategically situated at the crossroads of Europe and Eurasia. It offers investors a diversified economy, EU rules and norms, a well-educated multilingual workforce, advanced IT infrastructure, low inflation, and a stable democratic government. The Lithuanian economy has been growing steadily ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: District Man Trafficked Illegally Purchased Firearm from Virginia into the District; Man Also Shot Teenager, Paralyzing Him.
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: The Netherlands consistently ranks among the world’s most competitive industrialized economies. It offers an attractive business and investment climate and remains a welcoming location for business investment from the United States and elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Derek Pelker, age 29, of Reading, Pennsylvania was sentenced on July 10, 2019, by U.S. District Court Judge Yvette Kane to 533 months’ imprisonment for armed bank robbery. As part of his sentencing, Judge Kane also ordered Pelker to pay restitution in the amount of $318,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: “Operation Raging Bully," a multi-agency investigation, focused on Dr. Robert Rand and his co-conspirators for the illegal sales of prescription Opioids at a car dealership.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and today reintroduced the Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act, comprehensive legislation to crack down on employers...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - The U.S. Department of Justice announced today a new tool giving tribal governments the ability to input data directly and gain access to the FBI’s National Sex Offender Registry ("NSOR") using the Tribe and Territory Sex Offender Registry System ("TTSORS"). The system connection will...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Archie “A.J." Evans, age 42, of Hudson, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 120 months in prison for his involvement in a crack cocaine distribution ring that operated in Columbia County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Nathanial Atencio, 24, of Counselor, N.M., pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque today to a charge of sexual abuse of a minor in Indian Country.
