News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - As part of its continuing efforts to reduce drug misuse and overdose, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is launching a winter campaign urging the public to “Secure Your Meds." The current health crisis has magnified the importance of addressing the issue of controlled prescription...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Thomas McIntosh, 33, of Española, New Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque on Dec. 10 to embezzlement and theft from Indian tribal organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced today that Gilberto Marchese, 38 of Lockport, NY, who was convicted of possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to serve 46 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) Defense-Related Uranium Mines (DRUM) Program passed two major milestones in October, when DRUM completed its 1,000th final verification and validation (V&V) report and DRUM data was used to safeguard mine hazards.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Elvis Harold Reyes (56, Brandon) today pleaded guilty to mail fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme where he posed as an immigration attorney and filed hundreds of fraudulent asylum applications. Reyes...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: The Dwight D. Eisenhower Society has awarded a $10,500 grant to the Eisenhower National Historic Site for the reproduction of one of three Iranian rugs missing from the Eisenhower home master bedroom exhibit.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Oversight Republicans today called on Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) again to hold an emergency hearing regarding Big Tech’s censorship after both Hunter Biden and the Biden-Harris Transition Team acknowledged...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: A former Amarillo banker pleaded guilty for her role in embezzling thousands of dollars from a local bank, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: On Dec. 15, 2020, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont (USAO) honored a number of individuals from a variety of law enforcement agencies at the USAO’s third annual Law Enforcement Awards Ceremony. This year, the ceremony was hosted virtually, due to the pandemic, and invitations...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
Release: If you have decided to head to the airport to enjoy a winter break this holiday season - perhaps to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or even the end of what has been a very trying year - it’s important to know what items can be taken through a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint and what items should travel in a checked bag in addition to following CDC general guidelines about social distancing, washing hands and wearing masks.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: FORT WAYNE--Bradley M. Cox, 30, of Kokomo, Indiana, was convicted, late yesterday, on all counts of a six-count Superseding Indictment charging him with extortion, production and attempted production of child pornography, and receipt of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, woman convicted of Maintaining a Drug Involved Premises was sentenced on Dec. 14, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Eric Butler, age 46, was sentenced today to 135 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole followed by 20 years of supervised release on one count of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - Authorities have arrested a 22-year-old Huntsville man for possessing and receiving child pornography as well as cyberstalking, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: As the Internet of Things (IoT) grows to connect an amazing diversity of devices to electronic networks, four new publications from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) offer recommendations to federal agencies and manufacturers alike concerning effective cybersecurity for these devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Ohio man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for traveling to Missouri in an attempt to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a 12-year-old child.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - EM’s Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and its cleanup contractor N3B hosted a virtual meeting last week with stakeholders to discuss progress to remediate and close Cold War-era waste disposal sites at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - As part of its continuing efforts to reduce drug misuse and overdose, the Drug Enforcement Administration is launching a winter campaign urging the public to “Secure Your Meds." The current health crisis has magnified the importance of addressing the issue of controlled prescription drug misuse.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), released the following statement regarding President-elect Joe Biden's nomination of Pete Buttigieg to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
