News from December 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), released the following statement after being reelected as Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security for the 117th Congress...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $11 million in funding for 16 federal agency projects to catalyze the adoption of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and operational resilience technologies at critical facilities across the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: Federal, state and local authorities have arrested 13 individuals, including current and former University of Texas (UT) students, charged in connection with trafficking LSD, fentanyl and methamphetamine pills to UT students in Austin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Theodore Lamont Hansen, age 50, of Highland, Utah, who pleaded guilty to money laundering and bank fraud in May in connection with a financial fraud scheme, will serve 48 months in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Robert L. Shelby imposed the sentence Thursday afternoon in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a St. Cloud, Minnesota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Nov. 23, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in Toledo has returned a nine-count indictment charging Arthur Fayne, age 58, of Aurora, with wire fraud. The defendant is accused of orchestrating and executing two schemes to defraud separate businesses and embezzling the funds for personal use, including gambling at a casino, which resulted in the loss of over $1 million.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the winners of the American-Made Solar Prize Round 3 and the 20 semifinalist teams selected to advance to the next phase of Round 4. Through the Solar Prize, DOE works to bring hardware technology innovations to market faster and to bolster American competitiveness in solar hardware manufacturing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A previously convicted felon was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release after he appeared in a video posted to YouTube while in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 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 today announced that, on Nov. 17, 2020, a federal grand jury in Hartford returned...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Carlton Craig Sandoval, 39, of Window Rock, Arizona, and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day in prison on Dec. 2 after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Gregory Wayne Haygood a/k/a “Big", 48, of Jackson, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Acting Special Agent in Charge Gilbert Trill of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: Valley Forge National Historical Park will commemorate the arrival of the Continental Army at Valley Forge on Dec. 19, 1777 with a week of featured online and virtual March-In programming, culminating with an online screening of the park's new 19-minute orientation film Determined to Persevere: The Valley Forge Encampment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael Lewis Woodyard, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 21 months of incarceration for a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that federal, state, and local law enforcement officers charged 16 individuals in federal court for their roles in a drug trafficking organization that operated out of the Midlands region of South Carolina. An additional...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Adan Barajas Maldonado (35, Mexico) was sentenced to 25 years in prison for conspiring to distribute controlled substances and for possessing a gun to further his drug trafficking enterprise. Maldonado had pleaded guilty on Oct. 30, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: KOUNTZE, Texas - Big Thicket National Preserve is excited to announce that the park’s Chronolog Citizen Science project has been awarded Texan by Nature Certification.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Michigan woman was sentenced today to three years and five months in prison after pleading guilty to carrying out a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of more than $1.7 million in veterans benefits, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced that an Elkmont Road section will be temporarily closed to motorists for bridge repairs beginning Monday, December 7 through Friday, December 18. The closure will be in place Monday at 7:00 a.m. through Friday at noon each week. The area will be fully open to all access on the weekends.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - On Dec. 2, 2020, the Humboldt Field Office (HRFO) concluded a wild burro drive-trap gather. The gather was located within the Selenite Range Herd Area (HA) and adjacent lands near the town of Empire located approximately 7 miles south of Gerlach, Nevada. The HRFO gathered and removed...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A Raleigh man was sentenced today to 88 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
