News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kofi Appiah-Mainoo, 30, of Temple Hills, Maryland, and James Hutchings, Jr., 38, of Waldorf, Maryland, were arrested on November 5, 2019, on a federal charge stemming from an ongoing investigation into the trafficking of firearms into the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: A federal jury in Cleveland convicted a Florida man of Major Fraud, Wire Fraud and Submitting False and Fictitious Claims after he engaged in six-year long scheme to defraud the government.

By DOE Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a markup on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, officers from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Washington field office arrested Luis Fredy Hernandez Morales, 48, at his residence in Springfield, Va. Hernandez was charged on Nov. 5 by the Montgomery County District Court with sexual abuse of a minor.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Fugitive Indicted in ATM Skimming Case Arrested in Romania, Returned to Utah.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation and Klamath Water Users Association (KWUA) today announced that two Klamath Project and Upper Klamath Basin power reports are available for public comment. The draft reports, called The Klamath Basin Affordable Power Studies Power Cost Benchmark Report and Klamath River Basin America’s Water Infrastructure Act Affordable Power Measures Report, are available at

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: For Conspiracy to Possess With Intent To Distribute Cocaine And Possession Of A Firearm In Furtherance Of A Drug Trafficking Crime.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Eli Erickson, a/k/a Black, age 32, of Mission, South Dakota, was found guilty of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, Possession of Firearms in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime, and Drug User in Possession of Firearms as a result of a 3-day federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Former St. Louis Metropolitan Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Undercover Officer Believed to Be Protestor.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An illegal alien from El Salvador, who recently was convicted in state court of taking indecent liberties with a child, pleaded guilty today to illegally reentering the United States after he previously was deported in 2004.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Culpeper County man was sentenced yesterday to over six years in prison for cyberstalking, unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information, and aggravated identity theft.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: On November 7, the National Park Service (NPS) honored volunteers who have made significant contributions to the preservation, protection, and enjoyment of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Durham man who participated in the home invasion robbery of a tobacco store owner was sentenced to prison Thursday, announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Mark W. Sweeney Made Threats on Veterans Crisis Line.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Randy Hays, 32, a former police officer with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) pleaded guilty today in federal court in the Eastern District of Missouri to one count of using unreasonable and excessive force against a fellow SLMPD police officer, who was believed to be a protestor...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) today demanded answers from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) about its efforts to change key provisions of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA).
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Eleven Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today expressing growing concern that the FCC is failing to protect consumers’ privacy by refusing to hold wireless carriers accountable for unauthorized disclosures of consumers’ real-time location data.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: 11-Count Indictment Includes Charges for Possessing Firearm Which Resulted in 3-Year-Old’s Gunshot Wound to the Head.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - November 8, 2019 - Kedrick Ross, 27, of Nashville, was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury and charged with drug distribution and firearms offenses, announced Don Cochran, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: A Kentucky doctor joined a growing list of medical professionals implicated in an illegal kickback scheme involving OK Compounding. This is the eleventh kickback settlement since November 2018.