News from November 2019
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Former City of Memphis Division of Housing and Community Development employee Leon Blackmon Sr. and eight other relatives or acquaintances were indicted for their roles in a government-contracting scheme that defrauded the City of Memphis (City) and taxpayers by causing the City to pay...
By EPA 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 State Newswire | Nov 4, 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 Maloney, the Acting Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the transcripts of former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie “Masha" Yovanovitch and former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State Ambassador P. Michael McKinley.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON -Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband for the Civil Rights Division and Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers for the National Security Division, U.S. Attorney Jason R. Dunn for the District of Colorado, and Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips for the FBI Denver Division announced today that a Colorado man has been charged with a federal hate crime for plotting to blow up the Temple Emanuel Synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: CLEVELAND - A Cleveland man was charged in federal court Monday after allegedly firing at federal agents last week during the service a federal search warrant. The charges follow an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Texas man arrested and charged in September 2019, made his first appearance in federal court in Springfield today for kidnapping and stalking.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s pro-defendant policies led to the shootings.
By DOE 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: Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that James Elmer Sneed IV, age 35, was sentenced last week to 84 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for one count of being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Hot Springs.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee and co-author of the International Climate Accountability Act , released the following statement after the Trump Administration announced that the United States will begin the formal process of withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, a pledge signed by nearly 200 nations to limit greenhouse gas emissions and combat global warming.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Paul Glen Hamilton, Jr., of Bowie, Maryland and Melbourne, Florida, was sentenced today to 120 months incarceration for a child pornography charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Richard Earl Carroll (55, Hilliard) to 10 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: Martinsburg, WV - The U.S. Marshals Service Mountain State Fugitive Task Force is requesting the public’s assistance in locating Corey Nipper, 31, of Martinsburg, WV. On July 15, 2019, a warrant was issued for Corey Nipper for violation of his bond. The U.S. Marshals Task Force is assisting the Berkeley County Pre-Trial unit in locating and arresting Nipper.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham man to 121 months in prison for possessing nearly half a kilogram of the highly addictive and extremely potent opioid fentanyl with the intent to distribute, announced United States Attorney Jay E. Town and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Steve Torres, 43, and Uriel Delgado, 37, both of Las Vegas, were sentenced Friday for selling large quantities of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Edwin Rodriguez, aka “Chaka," 31, of Amsterdam, was indicted on Oct. 30 on charges that he distributed heroin mixed with fentanyl on two occasions, and possessed and intended to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin mixed with fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Anthony Wayne Harrison, II, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to four months’ probation for distributing heroin, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Yuminique Toney, 27, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of distribution of fentanyl, was sentenced to serve eight months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
