News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Carlos Aguayo-Salas, age 26, of Albany, was arrested yesterday and charged with possession with the intent to distribute heroin laced with fentanyl.
By State Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: SODA SPRINGS, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Idaho Falls District is preparing an environmental impact statement to address a mine and reclamation plan submitted by Itafos Conda, LLC for the proposed Husky 1/North Dry Ridge Phosphate Mine. Itafos proposes to develop several phosphate leases it holds on Dry Ridge, about 16 miles northeast of Soda Springs.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: Moab, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management plans to conduct prescribed burning of slash piles along the Colorado River adjacent to State Routes 128 and 279 and in the Kane Creek area near the Amasa Back trailhead parking lot. Slash-burning is a form of fire mitigation designed to keep public lands healthy.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: The annual Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) Joint Meeting provides an opportunity for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM) to review accomplishments, discuss the progress of ongoing work, and strategically map out the future of FUSRAP.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that ten defendants have been indicted for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin and methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Oklahoma and...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
Release: WARWICK, R.I. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has completed installation of new acrylic barriers at security checkpoints at T.F. Green International Airport in the agency’s ongoing efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) is taking steps to revitalize Shepherd Parkway. With the help of stakeholders and community members, the NPS has completed a development concept plan to enhance future use and enjoyment of Shepherd Parkway. This plan proposes ways to improve safety, connectivity, park conditions and opportunities for people to recreate in the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: In El Paso, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging 26-year-old Christopher Delgado for allegedly hitting his girlfriend with his fist then stabbing her with a knife multiple times while on Fort Bliss on Nov. 26, 2020, announced U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer and FBI Special Agent in Charge Luis Quesada, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was charged yesterday with cocaine and firearm possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former non-governmental organization (NGO) procurement official pleaded guilty today to paying bribes to NGO procurement officers in exchange for sensitive procurement information related to NGO contracts funded in part by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). These contracts...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: Former NGO Procurement Official Pleads Guilty to Bribery.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule to allow restaurants and other employers to essentially steal tipped workers’ wages.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, MD - A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging Sidhartha Kumar Mathur, age 34, of West Friendship, Maryland, for making threats against a member of Congress from Maryland. The complaint was filed on Dec. 21, 2020, and unsealed today upon Mathur’s arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: Concord, NH - The United States Marshals Service is very pleased to announce the arrest of a two-time “Fugitive of the Week," Willem Wonsang, in Townsend, Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. - A federal district judge has sentenced a Miami man convicted of running a nationwide counterfeit check cashing and identity theft scheme while illegally possessing a firearm to 129 months in prison. The man, who used fraud proceeds to buy personal luxury items, including a 39-foot Midnight Express powerboat with triple 400 horsepower Mercury engines, also was ordered to pay over $1.8 million in restitution to victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Rocky Mount man was sentenced yesterday to 156 months in prison for interference with commerce by robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Joseph Morris, 39, has been sentenced to 150 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging Thomas Holbert (aka “T"), Lance Harper, Dalonte Foard, and Glenn Whitney (aka “G" or “G-Lo") with conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a minor and individual counts of sex trafficking of minors. Holbert, Harper, Foard, and Whitney face up to life imprisonment if convicted.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON -The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced it has granted Santa Claus and his reindeer-powered sleigh special operating authority to engage in interstate air-cargo-delivery services directly to rooftops throughout the United States on Christmas Eve.
