News from February 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Thank you for inviting me to speak at this year’s Corridor Business Journal Health Care Summit.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, Feb. 29, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a special 1-hour ranger-led program discussing the experiences the Cherokee Tribe endured as they made a new life in Indian Territory. This program will take place at the Brown’s Ferry Federal Road Trail located at 707 Moccasin Bend Rd, Chattanooga, TN 37405.
By State Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for Fuel Breaks in the Great Basin. This Final PEIS provides for the construction and maintenance of a system of up to 11,000 miles of strategically placed fuel breaks to control wildfires within a 223 million acre area that includes portions of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada and Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: Two Brooklyn, New York men were convicted of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base and heroin following a jury trial, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - A Cincinnati police officer was arrested today and charged with making a false statement to federal agents and filing false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Knoxville, Tenn. - A federal jury returned a guilty verdict against four defendants for their roles in running “pill mills," announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowksi of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U. S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey of the Eastern District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A registered sex offender living in western Kansas was sentenced Thursday to 292 months in federal prison on child pornography charges, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky.- A Pikeville woman, Christina Brook Mitchell, 31, was sentenced on Friday to 420 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, for production and distribution of child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news the Trump Administration is deploying tactical units of Border Patrol Agents to U.S. cities for immigration enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Co-Conspirator Held Store Owners at Gunpoint While Defendant Emptied the Cash Register and Tip Jar and Stole the Victims’ Personal Cell Phones.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Petersburg man was sentenced today to over five years in prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and distributing a mixture and substance containing fentanyl and acetylfentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Department of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), Scott J. Lampert, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Regional Office of the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - An Acushnet man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and illegal firearm possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: FBI Art Crime Team Announces the Repatriation of Over 450 Cultural and Historical Artifacts to the Republic of Haiti.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced the resolution of several cases this week, all of which are separately noted.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that CARLOS MARIO CANTU-COX, age 48, and his husband, CHRISTOPHER CANTU-COX, age 37, both of Pasadena, Texas, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 for distributing ketamine that resulted in the death of a Slidell, Louisiana teenager. The eighteen year old’s dead body was found floating in a Texas bayou.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Knoxville, Tenn. - A federal jury returned a guilty verdict against four defendants for their roles in running “pill mills," announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowksi of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U. S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey of the Eastern District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Wells Field Office (WFO) issued a Decision Record (DR) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Environmental Assessment that analyzed the impacts of multiple Plan of Operations amendments submitted to for the Big Ledge Barite Mine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that John Guerrero (also known as “Sunshine" to his former drug customers in Franklin County) was sentenced today in federal court on one count of conspiring to distribute two hundred and eighty grams or more of cocaine base...
