News from October 2019
By USDA Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) today announced corrected 2019-crop loan rates for four types of peanuts. The 2019 peanut loan rates were published in June. The peanut loan rates were incorrectly calculated for the 2019 crop year because of...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated two Alabama counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Chilton and Shelby counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that David Ely, age 34, was sentenced yesterday to 120 months imprisonment followed by four years of supervised release for one count of Possession of More Than 50 Grams of Methamphetamine with Intent to Distribute. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Natchez, Miss. - Jarvanti Doss, 22, of Natchez, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III to 15 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for receiving a firearm while under a felony indictment, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Beatrice, Nebraska - On October 6 Homestead National Monument of America recognized its volunteers at a special ceremony. From October 2018 through September 2019, over 600 volunteers provided 11,246 hours of service. Beatrice resident Sue Sindlar was also named Volunteer of the Year at the ceremony.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILLIAM SCOTT, 40, of Springfield, Massachusetts, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 27 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a loaded firearm in Hartford.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, sent a letter conveying subpoenas to...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Beverly man was sentenced to probation today for sending a series of threatening letters to the CEO of an online dating website; one letter contained a white powder described as Anthrax and another contained a red substance described as blood infected with the AIDS virus.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Browning man who admitted using his phone to access and distribute child pornography from his dorm room at the University of Montana was sentenced today to five years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $18,000 restitution, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NICHOLAS ZANEN, 46, of Belgium, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 15 months of imprisonment for insider trading. Judge Thompson also ordered Zanen to pay a $6,000 fine.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded QED Secure Solutions of Coppell, Texas, $200,000 to field test a secure trust anchor for the Internet of Things (IoT) as part of S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP). This is the final phase...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: California Resident Charged with Leading Telemarketing Conspiracy to Defraud and Extort U.S. Consumers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today that Michael L. Corbitt, Jr., (age 38) was sentenced yesterday to eight years in prison for his involvement in two bank robberies. At Corbitt’s sentencing hearing, the government discussed that Corbitt selected...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Bryan G. Vonderahe, 45, of Kirkwood, Missouri, pleaded guilty to three felony counts of wire fraud. Vonderahe appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White who accepted his plea and set his sentencing date for Jan. 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Seven people have been arrested on federal charges stemming from an ongoing investigation into the distribution of narcotics and the possession of firearms in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. To date, large quantities of heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine base (crack) have been seized as a result of the investigation, along with six firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD - With coyotes yapping in the distance, and elk bugling over a nearby rise, twenty-nine black-footed ferrets were recently released into their new home of Wind Cave National Park. These ferrets, raised at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center in northern Colorado, will add to the park’s estimated ferret population of 18 to 20 animals.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on October 7, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Del Rio, TX - A child missing for a month was recovered by members of the U.S. Marshals-led Lone Star and North Texas Fugitive Task Force Wednesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, couple convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance were sentenced on October 8, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Brenda Rodgers, age 57, of Saluda, was sentenced to 25 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to filing false tax returns. Rodgers was also ordered to pay $156,536.09 in restitution to the IRS for back taxes. United States District Court Judge Timothy Cain, of Anderson, presided.
