News from November 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on President Trump’s nomination of Dr. Stephen M. Hahn to serve as Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Chad Ponce (38, Jacksonville) today pleaded guilty to killing an endangered species. Ponce faces a maximum penalty of one year in federal prison and a $50,000 fine. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on Nov. 1, 2019, Giel Riak, 21, of Omaha, was sentenced to 66 months in federal prison by United States District Judge Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. for distribution of marijuana and selling two handguns in connection with drug trafficking. There is...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - James Mills, of Barbourville, Kentucky, was sentenced Thursday to 121 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Robert E. Wier, for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on President Trump’s nomination of Dr. Stephen M. Hahn to serve as Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: Permits can be purchased in-person at the district office. They may also be purchased by telephone or through the mail. Permits cost $4 each with a limit of 10 per purchaser.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s California-Great Basin Region today announced Kristin White as operations manager for its Central Valley Operations (CVO) office in Sacramento.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH, NC - The Department of Justice today announced awards of more than $165 million to support public safety efforts in the state of North Carolina. The funding from the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and Office on Violence Against Women...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Oct. 31, 2019, United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Theodore R. Stang, Jr. age 31, of Girardville, Pennsylvania, to 24 months’ imprisonment and a two-year term of supervised release, for unlawfully purchasing firearms for another individual.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Matthew Logan Lipscomb, of Kerens, West Virginia, has admitted to selling methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - A felon with a conviction from the Middle District of Pennsylvania entered a guilty plea to an illegal firearms charge this week after being found with a stolen gun and other firearms in the Middle District of Georgia, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: OAKLAND - Victor Covian-Perez was sentenced to 36 months in prison today for being an alien in possession of a firearm and ammunition, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Rayfield Roundtree. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Darrell Donnell McDonald, 39, of Biloxi, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden, to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, 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 1, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced MURRAY MCNEILL TODD, age 47, of Bladenboro, North Carolina to 87 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. The Court also ordered TODD to pay restitution totaling $517,379.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: CALIFORNIA WOMAN KNOWN AS “THE DRUG LLAMA" PLEADS GUILTY TO CONSPIRACY, TRAFFICKING FENTANYL ON THE.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In honor of Lung Cancer Awareness Month, this week, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), former Amtrak Board Member and top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, introduced legislation that would ban smoking on Amtrak.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has finalized a plan to reduce the size and slow the growth of wild horse and burro populations on public lands in the Twin Peaks Herd Management Area, along the California-Nevada border in northeast California.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that James Traband, 53, of Upland, Delaware County, PA was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison followed by lifetime supervised release by United States District Judge Harvey A. Bartle for possession and distribution of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park announces the upcoming flight plans for November 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
Release: On the record, attributable to DOE Press Secretary Shaylyn Hynes...
