News from March 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement after a District Court judge ruled Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and Arkansas are illegal...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - An armed Pawtucket heroin dealer was sentenced to five years and one day in federal prison, announced BEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle, United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman and Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - Craig H. Gilbreath, Jr., 20, of Springfield, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 60 months in prison for possessing carfentanil.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Local Agencies and Law Enforcement to Present Park Celebration for Crime Victims and Survivors.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The 13-mile Scenic Drive at Red Rock Canyon will be open 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. starting April 1. This change happens yearly as days become longer and sunset is later in the day. The Visitor Center will continue to be open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - On April 3, 2019, Grand Canyon Railway, in consultation with the National Park Service (NPS), will be applying herbicide along the railroad tracks including those within Grand Canyon National Park. The purpose of this application is to inhibit the growth of vegetation adjacent to the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man has been convicted by a federal trial jury of illegally possessing firearms in a case that began when police officers followed a trail of blood from a drive-by shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A City of Paterson police officer was sentenced today to 66 months in prison for violating an individual’s civil rights by assaulting him at a hospital and repeatedly distributing narcotics, including drugs he stole from a crime scene while on duty, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Beginning Friday, March 29, bicyclists willing to brave the unpredictable elements of spring in Yellowstone National Park can ride 49 miles of park roads from the West Entrance to Mammoth Hot Springs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: California Man Charged with Assaulting Laguna, New Mexico Police Officers.
By State Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following opening remarks at the hearing "The State Department’s Foreign Policy Strategy and FY20 Budget Request"...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Military Dependent Pleads Guilty to the Attempted Murder of Her Infant Child in Spain.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Dontez Rayshawn Hudson, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to 18 months incarceration for a heroin distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor on how the Green New Deal would increase the size of government.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded $564,988 in funding to Auburn University for two research and development (R&D) projects designed to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of canines trained to detect explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Defendants in two separate indictments entered guilty pleas Monday, to distributing controlled substances that resulted in death. In Lexington, Daikuan Miller, 23, pleaded guilty to distributing fentanyl that resulted in an overdose death, before Senior District Judge Joseph M. Hood.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Marcos Mueses, 26, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, butyryl fentanyl, 4-fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl, and fentanyl. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On March 19, 2019, a federal grand jury in Knoxville returned a one-count indictment against Stacey Edward Williams, Jr., 39, of Sevierville, Tennessee, and Joshua Michael Catlett, 29, of Sevierville, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: A Tulsa man has been convicted of obstructing commerce by robbery; carrying, using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence; and Hobbs Act conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores. Following the two day trial, the jury deliberated nearly three hours before convicting Melvin Louis Bailey, 26, of the crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: For Possession With Intent To Distribute Heroin.
