News from December 2020
By Interior Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public scoping comments on approximately 34,252 acres of public lands proposed for the upcoming June 2021 competitive oil and gas lease sale in Las Animas, Moffat, Rio Blanco and Routt counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: Communication Attempts with Woman Began After Murdering Her Husband.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Dec. 29, 2020, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Emilio Daniel Dillon, age 23, of Muscatine, to 70 months in prison for Receipt of Child Pornography announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Dillon is required to pay $5,000 in victim restitution and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund. Following his prison term, Dillon will serve five years of supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers removed a Mexican illegal alien, convicted of child molestation and living illegally in Washington state, to Mexico Tuesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that Matthew Paul Slatzer, age 36, of Canton, Ohio, was sentenced by Judge Donald C. Nugent to 27 months imprisonment, the maximum possible sentence allowable within the federal sentencing guidelines. Slatzer previously pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a person with domestic violence conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Dec. 23, 2020, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Charls Peter Niphong, age 20, of Iowa City, to 64 months in prison for Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Following his prison term, Niphong was ordered to serve three years of supervised release, as well as pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Bradley Lefebvre, 38, a former resident of Springfield, Vermont who has since moved to New Hampshire, pleaded not guilty today in United States District Court in Burlington to federal harassment charges. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy released Lefebvre on conditions pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision against Rodney Rasco (Rasco) of Carthage, Mississippi, on Dec. 22, 2020, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Dec. 23, 2020, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced John James Ramirez, age 45, of Davenport, to 60 months in prison for Possession of Child Pornography and Possession of Obscene Visual Representation of the Sexual Abuse of Children announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Following his prison term, Ramirez was ordered to serve five years of supervised release and pay $200 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa-On Dec. 22, 2020, United States Chief District Court Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Michael Alan White, age 49, of Iowa City, to 144 months of imprisonment for Receipt of Child Pornography announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Following his prison term, White was ordered to serve five years of supervised release, pay $10,000.00 in restitution to the two victims, and pay $100.00 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader for the 116th Congress Greg Walden (R-OR), incoming Republican Leader for the 117th Congress Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader for the 116th Congress Greg Walden (R-OR), incoming Republican Leader for the 117th Congress Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: Washington -The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) airspace restrictions over additional national security sensitive locations, effective December 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that on Dec. 22, 2020, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned a five-count indictment charging JOSEPHER Y. CARTAGENA, 24, of the Bronx, New York, with offenses stemming from his alleged role in a car theft ring operating in Connecticut and New York.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) announced his four appointments for the Commission on the State of U.S. Olympics and Paralympics.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) announced his four appointments for the Commission on the State of U.S. Olympics and Paralympics.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is updating domestic regulations for pale cyst nematode (PCN, Globodera pallida). The update will allow for a public comment period for future changes to program protocols for regulating and deregulating PCN-infested ...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: ICYMI: On Sunday evening, President Trump signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which will fund the federal government for the rest of Fiscal Year 2021 and provide individuals, families, and businesses across the nation with much-needed relief from the coronavirus pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: DENVER, COLO. - The National Park Service is pleased to announce the launch of a special resource study of the George W. Bush Childhood Home located at 1412 West Ohio Avenue, Midland, Texas. The Bush family, which included two future presidents-George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush and a first lady-Barbara...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Boston, Massachusetts, removed an unlawfully present Salvadoran national wanted by law enforcement authorities in El Salvador on a homicide charge Friday, December 18.
