News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Nichole Marie Schell-Loper, age 43, of Durant, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 5 years of supervised release for Embezzlement And Theft From Indian Tribal Organizations, in violation of Title 18, United...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that yesterday in federal court, MICHAEL G. CALE, 60, of Simpsonville, South Carolina, MICHAEL J. LANDRY, 56, of Simpsonville, South Carolina, MICHAEL R. BRIGEVICH, 60, of Traveler’s Rest, South Carolina, and EDWIN PENA, 61, of Fort Pierce...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Peter Michael Burno, 45, and Billy Bob Bell, III, 44, were indicted yesterday on drug trafficking charges.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced the launch of the Plastics Innovation Challenge, a comprehensive U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program to accelerate innovations in energy-efficient plastics recycling technologies. Plastics are used in thousands of products essential to modern life, but plastic waste is also a growing global challenge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Chinese National Who Worked at Monsanto Indicted on Economic Espionage Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Jonathan York and Tommy Morris, two former correctional officers at the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville, Tennessee, with federal civil rights, conspiracy, and obstruction offenses, announced Assistant Attorney General Eric...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, Congressman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Police Found a Gun Hidden Under a Couch Cushion.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida and Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami Field Office announced that Michael Jerome Atkins, 60, was arraigned today by U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick M. Hunt, in Fort Lauderdale, on mail fraud and aggravated identity theft charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - A federal jury has found Leon Williams 30, and Reginald Jones, Jr. 25, both of Tampa, guilty of conspiring to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine, and marijuana, and discharging a firearm during and in relation to that conspiracy. Each faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Three Face Federal Charges in Peñasco, New Mexico, Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: A Sanford man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Portland to transferring obscene material to a minor, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - A federal jury has found Leon Williams (30) and Reginald Jones, Jr. (25), both of Tampa, guilty of conspiring to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine, and marijuana, and discharging a firearm during and in relation to that conspiracy. Each faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement today that it is rolling back key portions of the Risk Management Plan updates, also known as the Chemical Disaster Rule...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR-Special Agent in Charge Douglas A. Leff of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) San Juan Field Office announced the arrest of Jose Paniagua Tolentino.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: SAN JOSE - Edgar Gaspar was sentenced today to 97 months in prison for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: . St. Thomas, USVI - Mohammed Singh, a citizen of Guyana, and Jaisel Yroveles Del Jesus, Shadrach Thompson, and Tereim Grant, all citizens of the British Virgin Islands, were charged with knowingly and willfully entering or attempting to enter the United States at a time and place other than as designated...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Chair of the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Department of Energy's role in addressing climate change.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Join park rangers from Eisenhower National Historic Site in person in the Gettysburg National Cemetery, or online via Facebook Live, on December 16 as they commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park has some advice for visitors planning to explore Kīlauea volcano this holiday season: hit the park website before you hit the trail and avoid the crowded summit area between 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
