News from November 2019
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Cactus Flat, SD - In recognition of Veterans Day, on Monday, Nov. 11, the staff and volunteers of Minuteman Missile National Historic Site will debut an improved and expanded mobile phone tour of the park. While an audio tour exploring the features of the Delta-09 missile silo has been available for...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - A local man has been charged federally with assaulting a law enforcement officer engaged in a federal investigation with a deadly weapon. The charge is a result of a shooting that took place during the execution of a federal search warrant during the evening of Nov. 4. Two others have also been charged in a drug conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation today announced the first public negotiation session for Sacramento River, Shasta, and Trinity Division contractors as authorized by Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act). The WIIN Act directs Reclamation to convert water service and existing repayment contracts for construction cost prepayments upon the contractor’s request.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - The Justice Department announced the formation of the new Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF) focusing on deterring, detecting, investigating and prosecuting antitrust crimes, such as bid-rigging conspiracies and related fraudulent schemes, which undermine competition in government procurement, grant and program funding.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service will have five entrance fee-free days in 2020. On each of these significant days of celebration or commemoration, all national parks will waive entrance fees.
By State Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Washington-Today, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Acting Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter asking Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney to appear at a deposition on November 8, 2019, as part of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry of President Donald J. Trump.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
Release: ROANOKE, Va. - A California man was stopped by the Transportation Security Administration this morning with a.38 special handgun loaded with three bullets, at the Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport checkpoint. The TSA officer who was staffing the checkpoint X-ray monitor detected the handgun inside the man’s carry-on bag.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Pawtucket couple allegedly found to be in possession of significant quantities of fentanyl, cash, and drug packaging materials were indicted by a federal grand jury today on drug trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman and Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Rio Puerco Field Office is announcing a temporary closure of Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument November 12 - 15, 2019, while new facility improvements are installed. The new facilities include a double vault toilet and recycling receptacles.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk, Virginia, man was cited on state weapons charges by police at Norfolk International Airport this morning after a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer found a.40 caliber handgun loaded with nine bullets, including one in the chamber, in the traveler’s carry-on bag.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, 39, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, and Majid Ghorbani, 60, an Iranian citizen and resident of California, have entered pleas of guilty to charges stemming from their conduct conducting surveillance of and collecting identifying information about American citizens and U.S. nationals who are members of the Iranian dissident group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Peter C. Fitzhugh, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations, Raymond Donovan, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an 11-count indictment charging Joseph Bongiovanni, 55, of Tonawanda, NY, with conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to distribute controlled substances; accepting a bribe; obstruction...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Florence, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Eron Jordan, 28, of Conway, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Brian Keith Blalock, Jr., 25, of Pascagoula, Mississippi, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of a controlled substance, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent-in-Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Bruce Kevin Fleming of Lewes, Delaware, was indicted today in the District of Delaware on tax charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Carlos Prado, 40 years old, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady after pleading guilty to distribution of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Frank Brothers, 30, of St. Louis, MO, pleaded guilty to felony charges of robbery and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Brothers appeared in federal court today before United States District Judge Rodney W. Sippel who accepted his plea and set his sentencing date for Jan. 31, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. -The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration collected 882,919 pounds of unwanted, unused and expired prescription medications and vaping cartridges at the 18th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day event, Oct. 26, while the DEA Omaha Division accounted for 22,067 pounds collected from sites in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Maysam Ghovanloo has been sentenced for violating the federal wire fraud statute in furtherance of a scheme to defraud the National Science Foundation. Ghovanloo was a tenured full professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
