News from September 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
Release: HARTFORD - Do you have a star on your Connecticut driver’s license? If not, there’s still time to get your REAL ID-compliant driver’s license with that star on it. But it’s better to get it sooner, rather than later.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: This summer while American families enjoyed time away from work and school, Big Pharma revved up their influence machine to dismantle bipartisan legislation aimed at bringing down drug costs.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: A Cleveland man likely faces at least 30 years in prison after he was convicted by a federal jury on firearms and drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: In Austin yesterday, a federal judge sentenced the last of 35 defendants convicted of his role in a Austin-based drug trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division; Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Federal, state and local authorities have arrested 17 members and associates of the Texas Syndicate in connection with a methamphetamine/heroin trafficking operation in central Texas announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw, and Gonzales Police Chief Tim Crow.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz) released the following statement on the new Government Accountability Office ruling that the Trump administration illegally used federal money during the recent government shutdown to mitigate damage to National Park Service sites. According to the report, the Interior Department did not cooperate with GAO’s investigation.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah man was found guilty Friday of organizing and directing a nationwide drug trafficking organization that imported opioids from China and used the drugs to manufacture fake prescription medications sold throughout the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Hang T. Lam, 46, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to the unauthorized use, transfer, acquisition, and possession of USDA food stamp benefits. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - Stage 1 fire restrictions on public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Wyoming’s Natrona County will begin Sept. 4, 2019 due to dry conditions and high fire danger.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: A Toledo man was indicted on drug and firearms charges.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ- Grand Canyon National Park rangers responded to an emergency call of assistance for a 77-year-old man on a river trip Sept. 3, 2019, below Deer Creek Falls on the Colorado River.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former elementary school teacher pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for sexually exploiting his 15-year-old former student by producing pornographic images of her.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Gary Boshoff, 52, formerly of Topsham, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Mark Consiglio, 49, of Elsmere, Delaware was sentenced today in federal court in Delaware for his role in detonating a pipe bomb at a home in Elsmere, Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Santa Barbara, Calif. - Members from the National Response Team (NRT) of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) along with ATF special agents from the Los Angeles Field Division were activated today to join the investigation of the fire that occurred on the dive boat Conception killing 34 people Monday. The fire started in the early morning hours of Labor Day while the ship was anchored off Santa Cruz Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Dontaveous Benjamin, a 28 year old resident of Selma, Alabama was sentenced to 18 months of incarceration for possession of three pistols after felony conviction for possession of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - Billy Wayne Page, a convicted felon currently on federal supervised release for a previous federal conviction, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to 81 months for illegally possessing firearms and violating the terms of his supervised release. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen made the announcement following Page’s sentencing hearing today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Cartrail Jacobs, 26, has been sentenced to 300 months in federal prison for carjacking and brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: Police and prosecutors in Richmond County are receiving federal grants to improve safety in the community under the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods program.
By State Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C.-House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) issued the following statement condemning Russia’s failure to hold free elections in Moscow and St. Petersburg and its crackdown on peaceful protestors...
