News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced FRANKIE LEE JONES, 34, of Fayetteville, North Carolina to 180 months imprisonment, followed by 15 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced in federal court in Boston for trafficking in cocaine while on supervised release from an earlier federal drug trafficking conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) extended the deadline today for public comments on the proposed Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Road Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) from 45 to 60 days, moving the deadline to Oct. 29, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced KENNETH WADE REINHOLD, 33, of Holly Ridge, North Carolina to 360 months imprisonment, followed by a lifetime of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - Aaron Lee Woods of Roanoke, whose Eastern Avenue home was alleged to have been something like a “fast food operation for marijuana," was arrested on a federal criminal complaint last week and charged with crimes related to federal drug trafficking and firearms offenses. United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced James Edward Phillips, III (45, Jacksonville) to 10 years in federal prison for selling cocaine and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Phillips had pleaded guilty on June 11, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, the State Department provided a Report to Congress regarding the Administration’s Proposed Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2020. The report proposes an abysmal refugee admissions ceiling of 18,000 for the coming fiscal year. Additionally, President Trump issued an Executive ...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded $143,478 to Danube Tech GmbH, based in Vienna, Austria, to develop blockchain security technology. The award was made under S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) Other Transaction Solicitation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: AUSTRALIAN MAN SENTENCED TO PRISON. FOR ILLEGALLY POSSESSING FIREARM IN HAWAII. HONOLULU - Melvyn Gear, 59, a citizen of both Great Britain and Australia, was sentenced in federal court by Senior United States District Judge Susan Oki Mollway yesterday to 15 months of imprisonment for the illegal possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced James Edward Phillips, III (45, Jacksonville) to 10 years in federal prison for selling cocaine and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Phillips had pleaded guilty on June 11, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Alan Williams, of Hillsboro, West Virginia, has admitted to producing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Lonzo Patrick, 54, of St. Louis City, MO, pleaded guilty to three counts of robbery and two counts of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence in connection with three separate armed store robberies committed in October 2017. Patrick appeared today before U.S. District Judge Henry Ronnie L. White, who accepted his plea and set a sentencing date of January 8, 2020.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Upgrades to the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) DroneZone now
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Today, a South Florida man pled guilty to charges arising from his participation in kidnapping a victim at gunpoint and, along with his co-conspirators, facilitating his torture.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on state of nation’s election security after the whistleblower complaint against the President was released today...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Westfield man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Springfield to child pornography charges.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management’s Coeur d’Alene Field Office is in the process of awarding a contract for improvements at the popular Huckleberry Campground. Improvements include upgrades to the electrical panels to support newer RVs, a new storage building to house the water system and installation of a dump station at the camp host site.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Sloan Canyon Visitor Contact Station will be open daily from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. starting October 1. The station has been open Fridays-Sundays since May. The Sloan Visitor Contact Station is located at the end of Nawghaw Poa Road near Henderson, Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Owners and Operators of University Health Hospital in Shreveport to pay $531,241.74.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Ronald Clark Roddenberry, 52, of Little River, Alabama, was sentenced today in federal court on charges of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and felon in possession of a firearm. Roddenberry pled guilty to the charges in December of 2018.
