News from May 2019
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will honor some of their most dedicated volunteers this week at the agency’s 2019 Making a Difference National Volunteer Awards. Volunteers play a critical role in helping the BLM welcome millions of visitors annually to more than 245 million acres of public lands across the American West.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG - A Morgantown, West Virginia, physician pleaded guilty to obtaining controlled substances by fraudulently writing prescriptions using colleagues’ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) numbers and presenting stolen driver’s licenses to pick up fraudulently prescribed controlled substances...
By Homeland Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released its reports accompanying the fiscal year 2020 Commerce-Justice-Science and Interior-Environment appropriations bills.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALVIN ROBERTSON, 56, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of bank robbery and admitted that he committed a total of three bank robberies and two Subway store robberies in Connecticut last year.
By USDA Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Chairman Jim Costa of California delivered the following remarks at the subcommittee on reviewing animal pest and disease prevention and response capabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Keith Kirchoff (41, Key West) to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crime. A jury had found Kirchoff guilty on Feb. 26, 2019.
By DOL Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Today, in a hearing titled “Eliminating Barriers to Employment: Opening Doors to Opportunity," Republicans took the opportunity to focus on the greatest barrier to employment for Americans from every community and from every walk of life: the failure of American postsecondary education.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Inmate Possessed Prohibited Cell Phone And Shank.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Harrison, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Rodney Minner, age 62, of Eureka Springs, Arkansas was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, and restitution in the amount of $1,095,267.02...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: West Virginia Physician Pleads Guilty to Drug Charge.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - Jermichael Malcolm, 46, of Dayton, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Canton, South Dakota, man convicted of Mailing a Firearm was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Cyrus Dennis Braswell, 57, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to eight years and one month in prison for three counts of mailing threatening communications, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Andre Fields a/k/a “Coop," a/k/a “Pops," a/k/a “Boss," a/k/a “Unc,", 56, of Bronx, New York, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 170 months in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin and more than 280 grams of cocaine base, commonly known as “crack." The defendant pled guilty on Oct. 29, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | May 21, 2019
Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) predicts that summer 2019 will be the busiest on record with an average increase of 6% in the number of travelers who will depart ANC between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - What weighs 160 tons, stands 40 feet tall, needs a barge and massive crane to transport, and will play a role in treating nuclear waste? A pair of vessels delivered recently to EM’s Hanford Office of River Protection Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP).
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Two parents charged in the college admissions case pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Kevin Livsey was sentenced to 19 years and two months (230 months) in federal prison for committing fentanyl and heroin trafficking and firearm crimes while on federal supervised release for heroin trafficking crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that an indictment was unsealed today against Mark Wayne Ramsey, 29, of San Francisco, California, charging him with conspiracy to commit securities fraud and four counts of securities fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - United States Attorney James Kennedy, Jr., and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced that Calvin Elston, Jr., 41, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 400 grams or more of fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 235 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
