News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former nanny was sentenced today to 360 months in federal prison for producing child pornography with at least five children - most of whom were eight and nine years old - who had been placed under his care.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) introduced H.R. 5139 the “Stop Sexual Assault and Harassment in Transportation Act," legislation to help track and prevent sexual assault and harassment from occurring in different modes of transportation.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Nancy Izzo Jackson is a career member of the Senior Executive Service, and serves as Senior Bureau Official for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. From 2019-2021, Ms. Izzo Jackson served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of South and Central Asia Affairs where she supported...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: On Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, will hold a hearing on “The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency: Bringing Our Nation’s Heroes Home."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Curtis Arganbright, age 42, a former Westminster Police Officer, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Denver to one count of violating the civil rights of a female in his care whom he sexually assaulted. The guilty plea was entered...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - In keeping with the administration’s priorities of being good neighbors and respecting the ties that native and traditional communities have to public lands, the Bureau of Land Management is announcing that the entire Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument will be closed on Nov. 28, 2019. This closure allows for Pueblo de Cochiti cultural observances and routine BLM maintenance.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Shawnee, Kansas, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm and possessing cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Juan Rivera Marrero a/k/a “Viejo" a/k/a “Charlie,", age 57, currently residing in Dauphin County Prison, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Nov. 13, 2019, to 60 months’ imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo, for drug trafficking and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Ahmad Nassar, 33, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to four years in prison for aggravated identity theft, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and access device fraud, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Roger Nils-Jonas Karlsson, a citizen of Sweden, has been extradited from Thailand to stand trial for alleged securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson; Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; and Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Washington, D.C. Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Juan Rivera Marrero a/k/a “Viejo" a/k/a “Charlie,", age 57, currently residing in Dauphin County Prison, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Nov. 13, 2019, to 60 months’ imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo, for drug trafficking and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Patrick W. Carlineo, Jr., 55, of Addison, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to threatening to assault and murder a United States official, and being a felon in possession of firearms. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Last week, the Senate unanimously passed H.R. 3889, the ONDCP Technical Corrections Act of 2019. The bill, led by Reps. Harley Rouda (D-CA) and Mark Meadows (R-NC), would make needed changes to existing legislative language to improve the federal government’s response to the addiction crisis. The bill now sits on the President’s desk for his signature.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a Springville couple involved in a St. Clair County pill mill scheme, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge of the New Orleans Division Brad L. Byerley, U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, and IRS-Criminal Investigations Atlanta Field Office Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: COOLIDGE, AZ - Casa Grande Ruins National Monument is scheduled to be closed to the public three days each year, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and Independence Day. This year the park will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019 for Thanksgiving Day, including all buildings and access to the park grounds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Naim Muhammad, 56, of St. Charles, MO, pled guilty to one count of making a false claim to Medicaid. Mr. Muhammad appeared today before U.S. District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig who accepted his plea and set sentencing for Feb. 28, 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
Release: MILWAUKEE - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) are reminding Wisconsin residents that starting Oct. 1, 2020, travelers will need a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification to board a flight. Signs are currently posted at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE) and all other Wisconsin airports.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Lydia Moraa Matunda, 33, was sentenced today by the United States Magistrate Judge Susan M. Bazis for one count of Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers or Employees and one count of Willful Injury or Depredation of Property of the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man pleaded guilty today to an attempted robbery at a liquor store, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Twenty defendants have been charged in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl in the Springfield, Missouri, area.
