News from November 2019

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Holbrook man was convicted yesterday in federal court in Boston of distribution of heroin and cocaine base.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a nine-count superseding indictment charging Nino Buggs, a/k/a Rico, 23, of Buffalo, NY, with distributing butyryl fentanyl, U-47700, fentanyl, possession and distribution of heroin, possession with...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DR. ANDREW J. VAN ATTA, age 37, from Wasilla, Alaska, was charged today with wire fraud.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston man has been ordered to prison following his conviction related to his theft of guns from two local pawn shops during armed robberies, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two Kansas City, Missouri, men were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a series of armed robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging surveillance and security equipment company Aventura Technologies, Inc. (Aventura), located in Commack, New York, and seven current and former employees with selling Chinese-made equipment with known cybersecurity vulnerability...

By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: National Park Service (NPS) Region 1 Regional Director Gay Vietzke has named Steven Sims as the new permanent superintendent of Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site in Pennsylvania. Sims is currently serving as superintendent of Valley Forge National Historical Park, Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site and the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail. He will begin his new assignment in late January.

By DOE Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
Release: ARPA-E Provides Funding to Support Lower-Cost Fusion Energy Concepts

By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Medford, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management, Medford District, will hold a public open house on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019, from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., at the Jackson County Expo.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: The defendant shot his victims in the head while they were seated in the front seat of their minivan.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that SHANNON WICKER, also known as “Bishop," 33, of New Haven, was arrested yesterday on a federal criminal complaint charging him with narcotics and firearm offenses.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former owner of restaurants in Boston and Chelsea was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for tax fraud convictions.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: DENVER - The Drug Enforcement Administration is alerting the public of dangerous counterfeit pills killing Americans. Mexican drug cartels are manufacturing mass quantities of counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl, a dangerous synthetic opioid that is lethal in minute doses, for distribution throughout North America.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Defendants Make Admissions and Agree to Pay a Total of $5.99 Million.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, launched the next phase of the youth vaping investigation by sending letters to JUUL Labs, Inc. (JUUL) and Alternative Ingredients, Inc. The Subcommittee requested documents and information about reports that JUUL may have knowingly sold nearly one million contaminated vaping pods.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - Active duty military, veterans and their families joined with federal government employees in a specialized civil rights training today at Fort Benning, a significant U.S. Army installation located along the Georgia-Alabama border, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two New Jersey men were sentenced to federal prison for their participation in a drug trafficking operation in Fayette County, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Fuquan Hagler, 40, was sentenced to 36 months in prison, to be followed by a three year term of supervised release, while Brian Kelley, 46, was sentenced to 60 months in prison, to be followed by a four year term of supervised release.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Charlottesville, VIRGINIA - An Odessa, Texas man, who had an online relationship with a juvenile female in the Western District of Virginia, has been indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in U.S. District Court in Charlottesville and charged with cyberstalking and making interstate threats to the...

By Commerce Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Thank you for inviting me here today. I appreciate the opportunity to speak with the employees here at the International Trade Commission and help celebrate your annual awards day.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.