News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Freedom, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months’ imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney John H. Durham, Waterbury State’s Attorney Maureen Platt, ATF Boston Field Division Special Agent in Charge Kelly D. Brady, FBI New Haven Division Special Agent in Charge Brian C. Turner, and Waterbury Police Chief Fernando C. Spagnolo, announced that JERMAINE GILBERT, 21, of Waterbury, ...
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding today’s Senate passage of a dangerous War Powers Resolution that would tie the President’s hands and limit his ability to protect Americans abroad.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced two MS-13 gang members, Jose Alberto Sibrian Garcia, a/k/a Chango, age 28, and Carlos Hernandez Diaz, a/k/a Positivo, age 29, both of Silver Spring, Maryland, to 27 years each in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: For Methamphetamine Conspiracy. SOUTH BEND - Maurice Sylvester, age 32, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced before United States District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for conspiracy to possess with intent to deliver over 500 grams of methamphetamine and over 100 grams of heroin, announced United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As part the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California’s strategy to reduce violent crime by focusing on firearms prosecutions, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced that a federal grand jury has returned indictments in the following cases involving illegal firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania resident has pleaded guilty in federal court to violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man today admitted participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl from a drug mill in the Bronx to locations in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
Release: FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION. DA-2020-03. Feb. 12, 2020To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials Effective Jan. 22, 2020, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) established a Mexican fruit fly (Anastrepha ludens or Mexfly) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Corrupt Atlanta Banker Accepted Bribes to Facilitate Fraud and Money Laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Dallas Richardson, 25, of St. Louis, MO, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in a home invasion where he shot co-defendant Kyle Phillips. Richardson appeared today before United States District Judge Henry E. Autrey.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: On Saturday, February 8th, more than 50 classroom teachers, museum educators, and historic site interpreters gathered at Salem Maritime National Historic Site to explore the stories and legacies of slavery in New England. Participants came from as close as down the street, like Julie Arrison-Bishop, Director of Community Engagement at the House of Seven Gables, and as far away as New York state, including park rangers from Martin Van Buren National Historic Site.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Today the U.S. Census Bureau released a new report on projected life expectancy from 1960 to 2060. The Living Longer: Historical and Projected Life Expectancy in the United States: 1960 to 2060 report uses mortality by nativity data from the 2017 National Population Projections series to provide nativity-specific life expectancy projections.
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: HOUSTON - A suburban Houston-area man has been convicted of 15 counts of fraud and tax violations following a two-week jury trial, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and the Office of Science’s Fusion Energy Sciences program (FES), in a joint funding effort, will award up to $30 million in funding to research and develop a range of enabling technologies required for commercially attractive fusion energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: For Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Kate Palos, 32, of Affton, Missouri, was indicted today by a federal grand jury for her involvement in a healthcare fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 31-year-old Mathis man has been ordered to federal prison for trafficking meth and illegally possessing a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tammy Hoover, 41, of Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 12 months and one day in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
