News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - Ethan Kollie, 24, of Kettering, a friend of the Dayton mass shooter Connor Betts, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to illegally possessing firearms and lying on federal firearms form 4473.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Ocean County, New Jersey, man was arrested this morning on charges that he induced a minor to send him sexually explicit pictures and to engage in sexually explicit conduct over an online messaging service, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald “DJ" LaVoy today announced that USDA is investing $42.5 million in 133 distance learning and telemedicine projects (PDF, 238 KB) in 37 states and two U.S. territories. USDA is providing the funding through the Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) grant program. These investments will benefit 5.4 million rural residents.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A man illegally residing in the United States was found guilty Wednesday in federal court of attempting to persuade online an 11-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity. Two years earlier, this man had also molested the child while she stayed at a friend’s house.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced two Sacramento men for methamphetamine trafficking, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) called on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Inspector General to audit the effectiveness of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) oversight of aeronautical repair stations. Air carriers...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Nov. 19, 2019, United States District Judge Stephanie M. Rose, sentenced Charles Steven Dickenson, 67, of Muscatine, Iowa, to 132 months in prison for receiving child pornography, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Dickenson was also ordered to serve five years...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A mother, her son, and her daughter are among four defendants who pleaded guilty in federal court today to their roles in a $5.4 million conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: MADISON, Wis. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictment today.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has determined that Michael C. Harris was not responsibly connected to Sandifer Farms LLC, Blackville, S.C. This is an update to Press Release No: 131-19 issued on Oct. 15, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Stole More Than Half a Million Dollars in Checks & Money Orders.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio today, 37-year-old Justin John Shorey of Schertz, TX, admitted to aiming a laser pointer at a San Antonio Police Department helicopter flying overhead, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
Release: LINTHICUM, Md. - The number of passengers expected to fly this Thanksgiving holiday is expected to be record-breaking with more than 26.8 million passengers and crew members traveling through security screening checkpoints nationwide from Nov. 22 through Dec. 2. Travelers flying from Baltimore/Washington...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Damon Austin, 37, of Somersworth, was sentenced on Tuesday to 84 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of firearms, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the 2019 CPS ASEC Geographic Mobility detailed table package and updates to historical tables and historical graphs. Geographic mobility and migration both refer to the movement of people from one location of residence to another. These national- and regional-level estimates are from the 2019 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: A man who illegally possessed a firearm was sentenced today to four years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JUAN ARMSTEAD (“ARMSTEAD"), age 32, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty on Nov. 19, 2019 to a two-count Superseding Bill of Information for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and violation of the federal gun control act, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1344, 1349, and 922(g)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - An Alabama man admitted in federal court Wednesday that over the course of four months in 2018, he robbed five banks by intimidation in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on passage of bipartisan bills to reauthorize Brand USA and the SAFE WEB Act during today’s full committee markup.
