News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced MARQUIS BERNARD MALLOY, 29, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, to 180 months’ imprisonment, followed by a 3 year term of supervised released.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) blasted the Trump Administration today for submitting a formal notification to the United Nations initiating the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A McKinney, Texas, man was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for conspiring to launder $200,000, which he believed was derived from the sale of narcotics, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement today that it is pursuing a rollback of Obama-era coal ash rules, put in place in 2015 to protect Americans from coal ash - the toxic byproduct of burning coal...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 6 years and 8 months (80 months) in jail on his conviction of violating federal drug and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Oct. 30, 2019, a federal grand jury returned a seven-count indictment against Puerto Rico Police Officer Indira Osorio-Ortiz and her associate Lester R. Vázquez-Cintrón for conspiracy to engage in firearms trafficking without a license, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The FBI is in charge of the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: A Cleveland man was charged in federal court after allegedly firing at federal agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Oct. 30, 2019, a federal grand jury returned a seven-count indictment against Puerto Rico Police Officer Indira Osorio-Ortiz and her associate Lester R. Vázquez-Cintrón for conspiracy to engage in firearms trafficking without a license, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The FBI is in charge of the investigation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: Park officials plan to burn piles of dead vegetation in Salt Valley Wash at Arches National Park beginning the week of November 11th. Burns may occur throughout November, December, and January as conditions allow.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - 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 4, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person and Possession of a Firearm with an Obliterated Serial Number.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Christopher Michael Barnes, 36, of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute narcotics, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: Southern Colorado Man Charged with Federal Hate Crime for Plotting to Blow Up Synagogue.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) blasted the Trump Administration today for submitting a formal notification to the United Nations initiating the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: Burlington, VT - The U.S. Marshals Service arrested a fugitive wanted by the Lamoille County Sheriff’s Department for Sexual Assault.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the Trump administration beginning the formal process for the United States to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement today that it is pursuing a rollback of Obama-era coal ash rules, put in place in 2015 to protect Americans from coal ash - the toxic byproduct of burning coal...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -U.S. Attorney Bill Powell is sharing a warning regarding the dangers of vaping products amongst high school and middle school students following several life-threatening incidents last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to time served and 12 months home detention on her conviction of violating federal drugs laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON. D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released two new proposed rules, one that would ease federal limits on toxic coal ash from power plants, and another that would roll back federal limits on the levels of toxic metals in wastewater that can be discharged from the same power plants.
