News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Devron Lasha Young, Jr., age 22, of Baltimore, Maryland, yesterday to five years in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute approximately 75 grams of fentanyl and acetyl...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Republicans opposed H.R. 5598, the “Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act," in a Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources legislative hearing. U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) and U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), representing districts impacted by the bill, were permitted to voice their concerns by unanimous consent.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two Colorado Springs, Colorado, men were sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Quoc Boa Trinh pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute Schedule I synthetic cannabinoid controlled substances between 2017 and 2019, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - For the first time in the history of Kentucky there will be a full-time staffed federal prosecutors’ office in Bowling Green, Kentucky, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Strong City, Kansas - Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve announced its prescribed fire season beginning now through mid-April. Prescribed fire is one method used to promote a healthy prairie and maintain the cultural landscape of the preserve. It is also used by preserve land managers to remove woody...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Alfred McCaskill, 25, of Hattiesburg, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 41 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Erika Paola Intriago (45, Tampa) to four years in federal prison for wire fraud in connection with a fraud scheme involving her posing as an immigration attorney to more than 50 victims in Chicago and Tampa. The court also ordered Intriago to forfeit $53,663, the proceeds of her offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A former resident of Evans City, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a bank robbery charge, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 33-year-old resident of Houston has admitted he illegally possessed firearms and ammunition, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two alleged members of a Jersey City gang have been charged with the June 30, 2018, shooting of five people, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - An MS-13 gang member facing gang membership and aggravated homicide charges in El Salvador was arrested Tuesday in Galloway, Ohio, by officers with by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: On Thursday, February 13 at 7:00 pm. Nakia Zavalla with the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians will share the Santa Ynez Band’s experience on the discovery and return of Tuqan Man, a Native American man who died 10,000 years ago on San Miguel Island.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.3 million grant to Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho, to construct a new technical education and training facility on campus. The EDA grant, to be located near a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Opportunity Zone, will be matched with $567,988 in local funds.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) report on the Free File program...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: United States District Judge Victoria A. Roberts sentenced convicted former Wayne County airport official, James Warner, 52, of Commerce Township, to 10 years’ imprisonment today. A federal jury convicted Warner last June of ten counts of conspiracy, federal program bribery, federal program theft, money...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A vendor for several Veterans Affairs medical facilities was charged yesterday in connection with a scheme to profit by billing for, but failing to perform, critical medical gas inspections at VA facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two members of an Atlantic City drug-trafficking organization, including the leader of the organization, pleaded guilty today to distributing large amounts of heroin throughout Atlantic City, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Richard Boyle, a/k/a the “Straw Hat Bandit," 60, of Doylestown, PA, was sentenced today to 852 months’ imprisonment, five years’ supervised release and ordered to pay $495,000 restitution by United States District Court Judge Gene E.K. Pratter for committing 11 bank robberies, using a firearm during the commission of 10 of those robberies, and laundering the stolen proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Harrisburg, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Willie Walker, a 25-year old Philadelphia man.
