News from September 2019
By USDA Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
Release: Washington, D.C., [Sept. 17, 2019] - The United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has published an environmental assessment (EA) and Finding of No Significant Impact for the release of the weevil Ceratapion Basicorne to biologically control yellow ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: A Holmes County company that advertised it manufactured tinctures, salves and herbal formulas was fined more than $165,000 for refusing to allow FDA investigators to inspect its facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging a Richmond man with the armed robbery of Call Federal Credit Union in Midlothian.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, AL - The Justice Department today announced that a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Montgomery, Alabama, returned a two-count indictment charging former Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) Lieutenant Willie Burks, 39, with failing to stop a sergeant under his command from kicking and striking...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Corey D. Wilder, Jr., 27, of Columbus was sentenced in U.S. District Court to serve 42 months in prison for possessing a loaded AR-15 assault-style rifle during a standoff with members of a rival gang in south Columbus in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: 17 Individuals Indicted as part of Drug Trafficking Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Troy Patterson, 51, of St. Croix, appeared before Magistrate Judge George W. Cannon for an Initial Appearance after his arrest by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agents on the charges of Possession of Marijuana with the Intent to Distribute; Possession of Cocaine with the Intent to Distribute; Maintaining Drug-Involved Premises; Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking; and Fugitive in Possession of a Firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) today introduced a continuing resolution with limited anomalies to extend federal government funding through Nov. 21 and avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: The latest issue of Yellowstone Science magazine, the park’s premier periodical devoted to natural and cultural resources, is available online today. Produced in cooperation with the National Park Service’s Greater Yellowstone Inventory & Monitoring (I&M) Network, the new issue focuses on vital signs, a suite of ecological indicators that measure the health of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE).
By USDA Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 24 Kansas counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Allen, Anderson, Barton, Bourbon, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Doniphan, Franklin, Gove, Johnson, Labette, Leavenworth, Linn, Lyon, Miami, Montgomery, Neosho, Osage, Wallace, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Texas Health Care Fraud and Opioid Takedown Results in Charges Against 58 Individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that John Karl Smith, 26, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was sentenced to 84 months’ incarceration and three years’ supervised release by United States District Judge Paul S. Diamond for the robbery of multiple businesses in Philadelphia during the summer of 2018.
By State Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced TEVON FAYSON 24, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, to 180 months’ imprisonment, followed by a term of supervised released, and HASAN THOMAS 24, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, to 130 months’ imprisonment, followed by a term of supervised released.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Devon Denzel Thompson, age 26, of Woodlawn, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute three kilograms of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced Pierre Buissereth, 37, of Indian Land, South Carolina, to 14 years in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release, for his leadership role in a cross-country drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Technical Support Scheme Deceived More Than 7,500 Victims Across the United States and Canada, Many of Whom Are Elderly, into Paying for Phony Computer Repair Services.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) during today’s hearing titled: “The Administration’s Priorities and Policy Initiatives Under the Clean Water Act."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Charlottesville, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Justice Department’s Civil Right Division announced today the arrest of a Florida man on federal charges that in January 2019 he made racially-motivated threats against a prospective candidate that interfered with a local election for City Council in Charlottesville, Virginia.
