News from April 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Hartford Police Chief Jason Thody announced that YACOV OCASIO, also known as “C-Low," 23, of Hartford, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Lake Worth, Florida, businessman pleaded guilty today to tax evasion and willful failure to file a Report of Foreign Bank or Financial Account, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Hartford Police Chief Jason Thody announced that YACOV OCASIO, also known as “C-Low," 23, of Hartford, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - William Westfall, 36, of Albuquerque, New Mexico has been charged in a criminal complaint with being a felon in possession of a firearm. He will make his initial appearance in federal court in Albuquerque on April 16.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: Lakeview, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management Lakeview and Klamath Falls field offices will begin issuing firewood permits April 15. Permits will be processed over the phone ONLY from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The information needed to purchase a permit over the phone is:.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: BAKER, NV - Great Basin National Park is announcing additional modifications to operations in response to guidance from the White Pine County Office of Public Health. The health and safety of our visitors, employees, volunteers, and partners is our number one priority. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Gay Vietzke has named William “Eric" Breitkreutz as the new superintendent of Roger Williams National Memorial and the Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park. He will begin his new assignment in late May to early June.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
Release: The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Wildlife Services (WS) program has identified 12 states where it will implement nonlethal strategies to reduce or prevent depredation on livestock by wildlife. The fiscal year 2020 budget allocated $1.38 million for nonlethal predator damage management ...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service (BLM AFS) and U.S. Army Alaska (USARAK) will soon implement multiple prescribed fires on military training lands in Interior Alaska. As conditions allow, prescribed burning in the Donnelly Training Area (DTA), Yukon Training Area (YTA), and Fort Wainwright (FWA) may continue throughout the spring.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Logan Laboratories, Inc. (Logan Labs), a reference laboratory in Tampa, Florida, Tampa Pain Relief Centers, Inc. (Tampa Pain), a pain clinic also based in Tampa, Florida, and two of their former executives, Michael T. Doyle and Christopher...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: Hagatña - Shawn N. Anderson, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands today announced that Guam received $2,932,867.00 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: Reference Laboratory, Pain Clinic, and Two Individuals Agree to Pay $41 Million to Resolve Allegations of Unnecessary Urine Drug Testing.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) launched a joint effort to support the development of search engines for research that will help in the fight against COVID-19. The project was developed in response to the March 16 White House Call to Action to the Tech Community on New Machine Readable COVID-19 Dataset.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: BISMARCK, N.D. - Bureau of Reclamation recreation facilities at the Chain of Lakes remains open to the public. The Chain of Lakes is located north of Wilton, N.D., and consists of New Johns Lake, East Park Lake, West Park Lake, and Heckers Lake. Please practice social distancing at the Chain of Lakes...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
Release: Summary: The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is making an environmental assessment available for public review and comment. This EA covers the environmental impacts of field testing a new vaccine to protect poultry against necrotic enteritis ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: Incendiary device was placed at entrance of Ruth’s House, a Jewish-sponsored assisted living residential facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Cody Laweka, 29, of Zuni, New Mexico was sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque today to four years in prison for possession with the intent to distribute 10 pounds of methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: Medora, North Dakota - Effective immediately, Theodore Roosevelt National Park will be closed to recreational use until further notice. The temporary closure includes visitor centers, facilities, trails, and campgrounds. East River Road in Billings County will remain accessible to local residential traffic.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Larry Mitchell Hopkins, who is also known as Johnny Horton Jr., 70, of Flora Vista, New Mexico, was sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque today to 21 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Ebenezer Quainoo, M.D., an internist in Baltimore, Maryland, who operates a medical practice known as Baltimore Health Care, P.C., has agreed to pay the United States $436,000 to settle allegations that he submitted false claims to the United States for medically unnecessary autonomic nervous function tests and trigger point injections with the use of ultrasound guidance.
