News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jake Edward Howland, 23, of Vallejo, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to three years and 10 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a machine gun, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Walker Manuel Moreta, 32, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: A convicted felon from Illinois who unlawfully possessed a gun was sentenced Nov. 21, 2019, to nearly four years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Vermont Man Indicted for Hate Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer was sentenced today to 19 years in prison for conspiring to communicate, deliver and transmit national defense information to the People’s Republic of China.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: This week, a Toledo federal jury convicted Arvel Ray Henderson, II, age 50, on one count of theft of public money, one count of concealment of bankruptcy assets, and one count of bankruptcy fraud. Henderson is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 20, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Defendant Conspired to Kill a Suspected Federal Informant.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that United States District Judge Terry F. Moorer sentenced defendant Deonta Terrell Felts, 26, to imprisonment for 147 months for interference with commerce by robbery and for brandishing a firearm during and...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will offer Christmas tree permits for sale.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: Join a ranger on Saturday, Nov. 30, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, in search of wild turkey and other wildlife as you work off Thanksgiving dinner. Meet the ranger at the Calumet Dunes parking lot in Indiana Dunes National Park. Hike along the ancient Calumet shoreline of Lake Michigan and through forested dunes and small blowouts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Dylan Lee Jarrell, 22, of Anderson County, Ky., admitted in federal court that he transmitted a threatening communication in interstate commerce, committed cyberstalking, made a false statement to federal law enforcement officers, and possessed a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Jarrell pleaded guilty to the charges today, before U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Department of Transportation will award $8 million in airport infrastructure grants to two airports in the state of Tennessee. With this announcement, the Trump Administration has invested a historic $10.8 billion in more than two thousand American airports across the United States for safety and infrastructure improvements since January 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that defendant WAYNE BANKS, 33 years of age, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019 by U.S. District Court Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon for charges relating to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management signed a Record of Decision today authorizing the Ten West Link Transmission Line project. The project, which has been identified as a priority under Title 41 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, would modernize energy infrastructure, strengthen grid reliability and improve efficiency for millions of customers in Arizona and California.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - The annual removal of nonnative lake trout from Yellowstone Lake recently concluded and the multiyear effort points to a declining population. Lake trout are removed in an effort to preserve the native cutthroat trout population, the largest remaining concentration of inland cutthroat trout in existence.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) praises Chairman Ajit Pai and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for voting to protect taxpayers and secure our nation’s communications infrastructure. The vote was to, “bar use of the Universal Service Fund for the purchase of equipment and services from companies that pose a national security threat."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - After a three-day trial, a federal jury found James Williams, Jr., 29, guilty of making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Ray Roundtree of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for the San Francisco Field Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that that JOSEPH A. BORINO, age 62, a resident of Spring Hill, Texas was charged on Nov. 21, 2019 by a federal grand jury in an eight-count Indictment for his role in the marketing and operation of what claimed to be a Medical Reimbursement...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) praises Chairman Ajit Pai and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for voting to protect taxpayers and secure our nation’s communications infrastructure. The vote was to, “bar use of the Universal Service Fund for the purchase of equipment and services from companies that pose a national security threat."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: The investigation and prosecution dubbed Operation Vanilla Gorilla reached its ultimate milestone this week with the federal prison sentence of the final defendant, representing the wrap-up one year after indictments.
