News from December 2020
By USDA Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a complaint against M&L Farms, LLC (M&L Farms), Jallaq Farms, LLC (Jallaq Farms) and Othman Jallaq (Mr. Jallaq), all of Grove City, Ohio, on Nov. 12, 2020, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that COLBI TRENT DEFIORE, age 27, a resident of Carriere, Mississippi, was sentenced to 42 months imprisonment, 3 years of supervised release and payment of a $100 special assessment fee by United States District Judge Jay A. Zainey after previously...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Scranton, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Tyrone Lincoln Lancaster, a 38-year old Wilkes-Barre man.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Two Dallas men have been charged with gun and drug crimes, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that PENNY JOHNSON, age 52, a former resident of Avondale, Louisiana, who now lives in Mississippi, was sentenced on December 9, 2020 to three (3) years of probation for conspiracy to commit mail fraud by United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana Sarah S. Vance.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
Release: DALLAS, TEXAS - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recognized the agency’s highest performers and teams of 2020 during its annual awards ceremony. The national awards recognize teams and individuals who maintain the highest standards of conduct, are dedicated professionals, acting with conviction and honesty.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Casper, Buffalo and Newcastle Field Offices are planning to burn slash piles on public lands as winter weather makes preventative burns safe to conduct across the region.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: CONCORD, NH - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Christopher Gelinas, 24, of Manchester, was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow today sentenced David Gollahon, age 59, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 13 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for the federal charges of armed bank robbery and brandishing of a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Donnie Ray King, 41, of Whiteville, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney, announced the sentence today.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan bill to address rising water levels and shoreline erosion, led by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: State Department Employee and Spouse Plead Guilty to Trafficking in Counterfeit Goods from U.S. Embassy.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
Release: HOUSTON, TEXAS - The Transportation Security Administration has named George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), in Houston, as its 2020 Airport of the Year.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Building on their newfound ability to induce molecules in ultracold gases to interact with each other over long distances, JILA researchers have used an electric “knob" to influence molecular collisions and dramatically raise or lower chemical reaction rates.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging SHADOR TOMMIE CORTEZ JACKSON, 24, VICTOR DEVON EDWARDS, 31, and LEROY LEMONTE PERRY WILLIAMS, 34, each with one count of conspiracy to commit arson of the Target Corporation’s corporate headquarters building located...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Swift & Staley, Inc., a small business, the new Paducah Infrastructure Support Services Contract (PAD Infrastructure). The PAD Infrastructure contract is a major procurement for the Paducah EM Mission Work. DOE determined that Swift & Staley’s proposal provides the best value to the Government considering Technical Approach, Key Personnel and Organization, Past Performance, and Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Smuggled Vietnamese Aliens into the United States to Work for Illegally Low Wages at Hair and Nail Salons in New York City and on Long Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Roland Farnsworth, 37, of Keene, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in federal court to conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, fentanyl and crack cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kevin Miller, 30, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to distribute, and distribution of, controlled substances, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard. J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Houston-area pain clinic owner and a clinic employee who posed as a physician were sentenced to 240 months and 96 months in prison, respectively, today for their roles at a “pill mill" where they and their coconspirator illegally prescribed hundreds of thousands of doses of opioids and other controlled substances.
