News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - Joel Smithers, 36, a Martinsville-based doctor, was sentenced Oct. 2, 2019 to 40 years in federal prison and sentenced to pay a special assessment of $86,000, on 861 federal drug charges in U.S. District Court in Abingdon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Richard Joe Pruitt and John Joseph Kopp, both inmates at FCI Morgantown in Morgantown, West Virginia, were sentenced today for possession of contraband, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Three men were charged in a federal grand jury indictment that alleges they distributed narcotics, including counterfeit pharmaceutical pills, containing fentanyl that resulted in the overdose death of hip-hop artist Mac Miller.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - On October 26-28, BLM will sell cactus and yucca salvaged from public land where a solar energy development is planned. The plant sale will take place north of the Apex Industrial Area, along Interstate 15,about 10 miles northeast of the Las Vegas Valley.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Andrew Thomas, of Detroit, Michigan, has admitted to a drug distribution charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury today found Fredy David Ramos (44, Orlando) guilty of illegal reentry to the United States after deportation. Ramos faces a maximum penalty of two years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Dec. 18, 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $35 million in new funding on Wednesday at the Innovation XLab: Artificial Intelligence Summit in Chicago, IL, for the development of tools and systems that will enable reduced expense and increased flexibility in the operation and maintenance at nuclear power plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Andrew Thomas, of Detroit, Michigan, has admitted to a drug distribution charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A Mexican national was sentenced Thursday to six years in federal prison following his conviction of possessing child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 464,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: To better communicate the threat of a flash flood, NOAA’s National Weather Service is moving to a bulleted format for the warnings, with easily readable information, including a description of the flash flood hazard, the source of the information and the hazard impact.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted today for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for his role in a cocaine trafficking ring responsible for smuggling over 20 kilograms of cocaine into central Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: Colville, Washington Man Sentenced in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: Former North Carolina State Political Party Chairman Pleads Guilty to Making a False Statement to The FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Paul Alexander, a/k/a David Paul Hayes and Shorty, age 47, of Hanover, Maryland, on five federal charges including conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, two counts of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substances-specifically fentanyl, possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Sept. 26, 2019, Joshua J. Klein (age: 38) of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 225 months’ imprisonment for firearm and drug offenses. Klein was also ordered to serve 5 years’ supervised release after his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Daniel Silva and Colin McDonald (619) 546-9713.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report today that contained troublesome findings of potential fraud within Head Start, which provides early education services to low-income children. Following the report’s release, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Republican Leader of the Committee on House Education and Labor, sent a letter to Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) requesting the Committee hold a public hearing to examine potential fraud within Head Start.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: 3-Year-Old Remains Hospitalized. NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Oct. 2, 2019 - Kedrick Ross, 27, of Nashville, Tennessee, was charged today with two counts of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and two counts of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug crime, announced U.S. Attorney Don...
