News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that members of the Hamilton County Metropolitan Child Exploitation Task Force are being recognized with a U.S. Attorney’s Office Excellence Award for their involvement in the prosecution of multiple cases as a result of the U.S. Department...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Martinez Fresh Produce LLC satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Also Admits to Signing False Income Tax Return.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two men pled guilty today to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine before United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers in Huntington, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Elected officials, DOE personnel, and others recognized the efforts of employees of the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP) last week during an event to mark the upcoming completion of the facility’s transuranic waste debris treatment mission at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.
By State Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Representative Michael T. McCaul (R-TX), the Committee’s Ranking Member, Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Todd Young (R-IN) today introduced a bicameral, bipartisan measure opposing the decision to allow the Turkish military to attack America’s Syrian Kurdish partners.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Union City, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to two years probation, ordered to pay $15,308.75 in restitution and a $1,000 fine, on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a newly released video, Arizonans from all walks of life describe the need to protect the Grand Canyon from new uranium mining claims ahead of an expected vote later this month on Chair Raúl M. Grijalva’s (D-Ariz.) Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act. The video, available on Twitter here and Facebook here, includes voices from the Native American, sportsmen and business communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: LANSING, MICHIGAN - Today, the Department of Justice announced awards of more than $122 million to support public safety efforts in Michigan. The funds will help law enforcement agencies and community organizations in jurisdictions across the state fight gun, gang, drug and sexual violence, and bring criminals to justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Samantha Jo Guinn, of Keyser, West Virginia, has admitted to a methamphetamine distribution charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The second of two Columbus men who murdered, tortured, assaulted and intimidated people as part of their drug-distribution conspiracy was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 365 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Zachary Adams, age 34, of Mishawaka, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. for felon in possession, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: TAOS, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today that it will hold a lottery sale for dead and down fuelwood in the Gorham Scout Ranch near Chimayo, NM. BLM personnel will be onsite to direct the public to sites where fuelwood is available for harvest. The harvest lottery will take place...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment on October 9, 2019, charging Brandon Keith Harris, 32, of Bastrop, Louisiana, with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a stolen firearm, and theft of firearms from a federal firearms licensee, U.S. Attorney David...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. Robert Ramone Poe, 39, a Northern Kentucky man who was convicted of illegally possessing a firearm, was sentenced on Tuesday to 105 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Two Dominican nationals were indicted today in federal court in Boston with distributing fentanyl.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Republican Leaders on the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA), issued the following statement criticizing the Democrats' introduction of partisan higher education legislation that will hurt students and doubles down on failed policies...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: MOOSE, WY- The National Park Service has signed a Finding of No Significant Impact for the Mountain Goat Management Plan/Environmental Assessment at Grand Teton National Park. The purpose of the plan is twofold: 1) aid in the conservation of a native population of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in the Teton Range whose status is tenuous, and 2) protect other park resources and values from the rapidly growing non-native mountain goat population.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ- Water connectivity to Grand Canyon National Park's South Rim is restored. The park has removed water restrictions and resumed basic water conservation measures.
