News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that yesterday in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced BRITT ALLEN JACOBS, 46, of Robeson County to 48 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. JACOBS was also ordered to pay more than $1,300 of restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Alcerster, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for 12 Counts of Wire Fraud and 8 Counts of Mail Fraud.
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 Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park received another year of record visitation in 2019. The park received a total of 4,670,054 visitors, which was a slight 1.7 percent over record visitation in 2018, of 4,590,492 visitors. Visitation for 2019 represents a 44 percent increase since 2012. July, the most visited month, experienced a record 976,042 visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that two United States Penitentiary Allenwood (USP Allenwood) inmates Alexander Palmisano, age 35, and William Oloane, age 30, were indicted on Feb. 13, 2020, by a federal grand jury for an assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment Thursday against Diego Garcia Lua, 61, of Orange Cove, California, charging him with cultivating marijuana and maintaining a drug-involved premises, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that two United States Penitentiary Allenwood (USP Allenwood) inmates Alexander Palmisano, age 35, and William Oloane, age 30, were indicted on Feb. 13, 2020, by a federal grand jury for an assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. - A pair of the fastest birds in the world are eyeing Maryland Heights in Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (NHP) as their nesting site.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty pleas of MICHAEL JACOB BLANDFORD, 28, and MATTHEW JON LEIGLAND, 26, to one count each of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. BLANDFORD and LEIGLAND, who were initially charged on April 26, 2019, entered their guilty pleas before Judge Nancy E. Brasel in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - The proposed plans to guide decisions on how to manage federal lands in western and central Montana for the next two decades were released today by the Montana/Dakotas State Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently published technical corrections and amendments to 27 OSHA standards and regulations. This administrative rulemaking corrects minor misprints, omissions, outdated references, and tabular and graphic...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A sales agent for a Chicago-area red-light camera company has been indicted for allegedly conspiring to pay bribes to obtain approval to install additional cameras in suburban Oak Lawn.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man was indicted Thursday on federal charges of assaulting an undercover officer after she paid him $400 for a handgun, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A previously convicted child sex offender was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for producing images of child sexual abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Ángel Miguel Rivera-Quiñones, 74, from Ponce, Puerto Rico, was arrested for production of child pornography, coercion and enticement of a minor, and receipt of child pornography, following an investigation by the FBI, the Police of Puerto Rico, and the Department of Justice for the Region of Ponce, announced United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, W. Stephen Muldrow.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Former Detroit Police Officer Michael Mosley, age 48, pleaded guilty today before the Honorable George Caram Steeh to bribery for taking $15,000 in cash bribes from a drug trafficker, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Augusta charges two men with using fraudulent and stolen credit cards to steal from hotels and a limousine company.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - James Howard, 39, of Somersworth, pleaded guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging an alleged Bloods gang member with January 2017 murder.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2020 ─ The United States Department of Agriculture announced the selection of 30 university students who will attend USDA’s 2020 Agricultural Outlook Forum as participants of the USDA Future Leaders in Agriculture Program. These undergraduate and graduate students will participate in a weeklong trip to Washington, D.C., capped off by their attendance at the Forum, USDA’s largest annual meeting, held February 20-21, 2020 in Arlington, Va.
