News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Co-Conspirators Distributed More Than 99 Pounds in Utah, Idaho, and Other Locations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Drug dealer Trevon Antone Lucas was sentenced in federal court today to 15 years in prison for selling the counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl that caused the overdose death of a La Jolla resident in June of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: A former Dallas Police Officer pleaded guilty today to falsifying traffic citations in order to collect overtime pay, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Jamie R. Rhome with NOAA’s National Hurricane Center has been awarded the prestigious Service to America medal for his pioneering work in forecasting and warning the public about the deadly and destructive inundation of water associated with a hurricane’s storm surge.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas felon pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to stealing more than 200 firearms from a trailer belonging to a Federal Firearms Licensee, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Ray Roundtree for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Tina Smith, D-Minn., today introduced bipartisan legislation to reauthorize and improve the Department of Energy’s Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs (OIE). The bill, entitled the Tribal Energy Reauthorization Act (TERA), reauthorizes OIE and the Tribal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: For Possessing With Intent To Distribute Cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that a Rochester, New York man was sentenced in federal court in Bangor for conspiring to distribute cocaine base, heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Charges have been filed in connection with the September 2018 armed robbery of a federally-insured.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Indictment Includes High-Ranking Members of the Governing “Table" of the L.A. Program of MS-13 from New York, California, and Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Bonnie Jo Korzun, of Granville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 77 months incarceration for her involvement in a drug distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 34-year-old Mexican man has been ordered to federal prison sentence following his conviction of conspiracy to import large amounts of cocaine and marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: 10:00 a.m. 1300 Longworth House Office Building. WITNESS LIST. The Honorable Scott Hutchins, Deputy Under Secretary, Research, Education, and Economics. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: A Wynona man pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court for dismantling and stealing oil pumping rig equipment from pumpjacks in Osage County, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced James Bernard Kennedy (46, Jacksonville) to seven years and four months in federal prison for distributing cocaine base (also known as crack cocaine).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Dylan Kenneth Cox, 24, of Daphne, Alabama, was sentenced this morning in federal court on drug and gun charges. Cox pled guilty to the two charges-- using, carrying and possessing a firearm in furtherance of or in relation to a drug trafficking felony, and possession with intent to distribute marijuana and alprazolam (commonly known as Xanax) - during July of 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: ELY, Nev. -The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Nevada is announcing a 30-day public comment period on the environmental analysis for its Feb. 11, 2020 and March 24, 2020 oil and gas lease sales. A total of 226 parcels (approximately 355,195 acres) of federal lands are proposed for lease. The parcels are located in White Pine and Lincoln counties, Nevada. The comment period will run from Oct.16-Nov. 14, 2019.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 16, 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 $201 million to improve rural water infrastructure in 31 states (PDF, 250 KB).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger has sentenced Lepoleon Spikes (47, Jacksonville) to 21 months in federal prison for wire fraud involving fraudulently obtained FEMA benefits. Spikes was immediately remanded into the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. The court also ordered Spikes to pay $57,689.19 in restitution to the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: On Nov. 11, 2019 at 2:30pm Vicksburg National Military Park, the State of Mississippi, and the Friends of Vicksburg National Military Park and Campaign will re-dedicate the Mississippi State Monument within Vicksburg National Military Park.
