News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General William P. Barr today announced the appointment of the following nine U.S. Attorneys to serve on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC): David Anderson, Northern District of California; Scott Brady, Western District of Pennsylvania; Maria Chapa Lopez, Middle District...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Committee on Natural Resources is hosting five hearings next week, including a joint hearing between the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Foreign Affairs on Sustaining U.S. Pacific Insular Relationships.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: An armed carjacker who repeatedly disguised himself as a police officer has been ordered federal prison for 30 years, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled “A Work in Progress: Implementation of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018." ...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - In honor of the 26th annual National Public Lands Day, The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest’s Mountain City-Ruby Mountains-Jarbidge Ranger District, Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Nevada Conservation Districts Program, Nevada...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: OLMSTED FALLS, OH - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited American Wire and Cable Company - an appliance industry supplier - for more than two dozen serious violations of workplace safety and health standards at the manufacturer’s facility in Olmsted Falls, Ohio. The company faces $185,640 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 150 months imprisonment and 5 years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms and narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Heidi Kalous (39, Dunedin) with conspiring to distribute a substance that contained a mixture of heroin and fentanyl, and distributing a substance that contained a mixture of heroin, fentanyl, and acetyl fentanyl, causing death. If convicted, Kalous faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 20 years, and up to life, in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on Sept. 19, 2019, Travis Wright Scott, age 31, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Carrying a Firearm During a Drug Trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment yesterday against Dave Perkins Jr., 58, of Sacramento, charging him with being a felon in possession of firearms, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jason Yelder, 37, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40, and $5,000,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Barbour County, Alabama, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has awarded approximately $10.5 million in Susan Harwood federal safety and health training grants to 79 nonprofit organizations nationwide. The grants will provide education and training programs to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that John Bennett Roof, Jr., a/k/a “Brent Roof," a/k/a “Ice Man", age 34, of Chester, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and using...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announces that Willie Dewayne Phillip was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison for holding two postal clerks at gunpoint and stealing cash from the registers. The defendant was sentenced this week in Denver by United States District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson. At the conclusion of his prison sentence, Phillip will serve 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Lexington, KY- Two Mexican Nationals, illegally residing in the U.S., and one Nicholasville, Ky., man, who previously admitted to transporting more than 100 kilograms of marijuana from Phoenix, Az., to Nicholasville, Ky., were sentenced on Thursday.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Concord, NH - Last evening, members of the U.S. Marshals - NH Joint Fugitive Task Force and the Franklin Police Department, arrested Fugitive of the Week, Desiree Manley, 32 years-of-age. Ms. Manley was wanted on an outstanding Merrimack County Superior Court arrest warrant for probation violations stemming from original convictions for drug offense, reckless conduct and operating a motor vehicle after being deemed a habitual offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Dennis Pulley, a/k/a Denmo, age 31, of Baltimore, to 35 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to participate in a drug distribution conspiracy and a violent racketeering enterprise known...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Dennis Pulley, a/k/a Denmo, age 31, of Baltimore, to 35 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to participate in a drug distribution conspiracy and a violent racketeering enterprise known ...
