News from June 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today approved the fiscal year 2020 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies bill on a vote of 29 to 21. The legislation funds agencies and programs within the Department of Agriculture, the Farm Credit Administration, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Food and Drug Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: A Kent man was sentenced to 30 months in prison for money laundering and filing false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A federal jury has found Mikhy Farrera-Brochez, a 34 year old man originally from Winchester, Kentucky, guilty of two counts of sending threatening communications to the Government of Singapore and its Ministry of Health. The jury also found Farrera-Brochez guilty of one count of possessing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A federal jury has found Mikhy Farrera-Brochez, a 34 year old man originally from Winchester, Kentucky, guilty of two counts of sending threatening communications to the Government of Singapore and its Ministry of Health. The jury also found Farrera-Brochez guilty of one count of possessing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Mexican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for passport fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Wendi E. Detter, age 46, of Lititz, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones III, to 18 months’ imprisonment to be followed by two years of supervised release for wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 39-year-old Mexican National has admitted he injured a Border Patrol (BP) agent by hitting him with arm shackles, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Marcell Deangelo Lewis, 24, of Shreveport, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark L. Hornsby on Monday and pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: A federal indictment was unsealed charging two Youngstown men for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy, as well as additional firearms charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
Release: Congressman David Price (D-NC), Chair of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Appropriations Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2020 Transportation-Housing and Urban Development bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe P. Kelly announced that Terrell Williams, 51, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for failing to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). After serving his prison term, Williams will be also be required to serve 5 years of supervised release and register as a sex offender.
By State Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the killing of peaceful protestors in Sudan and the continued failure to establish a civilian-led transitional government...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: Two Indictments Unsealed Charging Iranian Citizen with Violating U.S. Export Laws and Sanctions against Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned a three-count indictment today charging JERMAINE GILBERT, 21, of Waterbury, with firearm possession and drug trafficking offenses.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: 9:30 a.m. 1300 Longworth House Office Building. WITNESS LIST. Dr. Jack M. Payne, Senior Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Dr. William F. Tracy, Professor of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. Ms. Elizabeth...
By State Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after 35 peaceful protesters were killed in Sudan by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, an element of the Sudanese military that is implicated in carrying out the horrific genocide in Darfur.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph Chojnacki, 26, of Cheektowaga, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with receipt and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling almost $558,000 from the health care foundation that employed her as an accountant.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
Release: BURLINGTON, Vt. - A Knoxville, Tennessee, man was caught with a loaded gun at Burlington International Airport on Saturday, June 1, after Transportation Security Administration officers at the airport stopped him from bringing a loaded handgun past the checkpoint and onto an airplane. It marked the second gun caught at one of the airport checkpoints so far this year, the same number that TSA officers at the airport detected during all 12 months of 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TX - Fire crews have contained the Castolon Fire, which burned along the river in the western part of Big Bend National Park. While there were lost structures, incredible work was done to protect and preserve numerous historic buildings and artifacts.
