News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Darnell E. Bassett, age 24, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in connection with a fatal accident on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. The guilty plea was entered on Sept. 25, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Four individuals, including two doctors, a pharmacist who had previously lost his license and been excluded from participating in the Medicaid and Medicare programs and a pharmacy owner have been charged for their participation in schemes in which the Medicare and Medicaid programs were...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Ft. Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Sept. 25, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - A repatriation ceremony took place Wednesday following the recovery of a stolen Egyptian artifact previously on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This following an investigation with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Five individuals were arrested yesterday on a 44-count federal indictment.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Good Morning. Today, the Oversight Subcommittee will examine the effects of gun violence on communities across the country.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Matthew T. Albence held a White House press briefing Thursday to explain how sanctuary policies threaten public safety and called on the public to hold their local lawmakers accountable. The briefing made clear that local jurisdictions across the U.S. that refuse to cooperate with ICE are complicit in the crimes committed by aliens who ICE could have otherwise been arrested and removed.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced Oscar Orlando Navarro-Melendez, 31, a Honduran national residing in Asheville, N.C. to 135 months in prison and five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell woman was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Boston in connection with embezzling approximately $182,000 from a veterinary hospital that employed her.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS, MT. -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) presented its 2019 Rangeland Stewardship Awards today, which are given in recognition of an individual or group’s commitment to the stewardship of public rangelands and sagebrush steppes under BLM management. This year’s recipients include the Garfield County Conservation District in Montana, the Idaho Rangeland Resources Commission and Weimer Ranches of Colorado.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 257,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: HONOLULU - John Winslett, 65, of Bristol, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty today in federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to accept kickbacks in connection with a U.S. government contract. Winslett admitted that he bribed government contracting...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Sentences Ranged from Five Years to Over Fifteen Years in Prison.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Subcommittee on Aviation Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA) today released the following statements on the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) safety recommendations regarding the Boeing 737 MAX 8...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of JUSTIN THOMAS CHAPMAN, 38, to 180 months in prison for distributing child pornography. CHAPMAN, who pleaded guilty on May 8, 2019, was sentenced today before Judge Eric C. Tostrud in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAMON HERNANDEZ, 61, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing cocaine and violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
Release: HONOLULU - Federal, state and county officials today reminded Hawaii residents that starting Oct. 1, 2020, travelers will need a REAL ID-compliant form of identification to board a commercial flight.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Wayne Patterson, who committed a string of eight armed robberies in the metro-Atlanta area, has been sentenced to federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management today published the Final Environmental Impact Statement and Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR) and California Desert Conservation Area Land Use Plan Amendment for the Desert Quartzite Solar Project in eastern Riverside County.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: A dual citizen of the United States and Mexico, and the former State Attorney General for the State of Nayarit, Mexico, was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release, following his guilty plea to an international heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana manufacture and distribution conspiracy.
