News from December 2020
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Today, the Trump Administration’s Bureau of Reclamation transmitted the final Boise River Basin Feasibility Report.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted possessing a handgun in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.6 million grant to the city of Springfield, Kentucky, to make water infrastructure improvements to boost the Springfield Water and Sewer Commission’s capacity...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after meeting with President-elect Joe Biden’s Office of Management and Budget Director-Designate Neera Tanden to discuss issues faced by working families in Michigan and across the nation...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Brandon Allen Howe, age 38, of Wagoner, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to two counts of Burglary In The First Degree In Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1151, 1153, and Title 21, Oklahoma Statutes, Section 1431, punishable by up to 20 years’ imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both for each count.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A New York doctor today admitted distributing opioids without a legitimate medical reason and soliciting sexual favors from patients in exchange for opioid prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: firearm that was allegedly used in a homicide in Racine, Wisconsin, on Oct. 17, 2020. Hardimon was arrested last week and made her initial appearance last Friday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, Missouri.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on the newly unveiled formal portrait of former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: MILLS, Wyoming - Beginning in October of this year, the Wyoming Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation began lowering Alcova Reservoir to an elevation of 5459 feet, 29 feet below the normal winter operating elevation of 5488 feet. The reservoir was lowered to help facilitate repair of the Alcova Spillway. Repair efforts have been going as planned and the reservoir can safely be raised to its normal winter level of 5488 feet.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A man from McPherson County was charged in federal court here today with sexually exploiting a 15-year-old victim, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that SHELDON STEPHENSON, 28, of North Lauderdale, Florida, pleaded guilty yesterday to a conspiracy charge stemming from his participation in an immigration marriage fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho - Due to heavy equipment and timber harvest activities on the east side of the Blue Creek Bay recreation area, the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Coeur d’Alene Field Office is temporarily restricting access to several hiking trails in the area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Ismael Garcia, a/k/a “Playboy," was sentenced to 15 years in prison for trafficking methamphetamine, dealing in firearms without a license, and being a felon in possession of firearms, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago man was arrested on a federal firearm charge after law enforcement this week seized machine guns and more than 100 “switch" devices from his home. Each device is capable of converting a semi-automatic pistol into a machine gun.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
Release: BOISE, Idaho - As the holiday travel period approaches, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) provided an overview of new technology and modified procedures that are in place at Boise Airport (BOI).
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: BRASILIA, Brazil - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) assists Brazil Federal Police (PF) in the arrests of ten high-profile targets in Brazil, to include several current and former local politicians, who are part of transnational criminal organizations involved in human smuggling.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research Chair Stacey E. Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands delivered these remarks following today's subcommittee hearing on 1890 Land Grant universities...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: Roseburg, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Roseburg District is seeking public input on a proposal to implement fire recovery activities within the Archie Creek Fire perimeter, including burned timber salvage harvesting and removing hazard trees along roadways and near BLM-developed facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: Drug Dealer Additionally Engaged in Counterfeiting, Use of a False Identity, and Recreational Swimming.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A Charlotte federal jury has convicted Anthony Tommy Foster, 45, of Mokena, Illinois, of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute cocaine, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. presided over the two-day trial, which ended today.
