News from February 2020
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Cesar Hernandez-Martinez, a 29-year-old Tijuana man, was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to 137 months in custody for laundering $13 million of narcotics proceeds for the Sinaloa Cartel. Hernandez owned and operated currency exchange houses in Tijuana that received proceeds from the sale of multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin smuggled into the United States by the cartel.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Browning woman who admitted being intoxicated when the vehicle she was driving on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation crashed and rolled twice, seriously injuring a passenger, was sentenced today to 16 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U. S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Hill City, South Dakota, woman convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Mario D. Heatly (39, St. Petersburg) was sentenced to nine years and four months in federal prison for possessing 500 grams or more of cocaine with the intent to distribute it. Heatly had pleaded guilty on Sept. 26, 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The EM Richland Operations Office and contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA) are implementing measures to support pollinating insects on the Hanford Site, the result of ecological monitoring to help ensure the effects of cleanup on wildlife is minimized.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of strengthening America’s energy independence, the Eastern States State Office announces a quarterly online oil and gas lease sale to be held March 19, 2020. The sale will include 1,126.03 acres located in Amite and Smith Counties, Mississippi; and Monroe County, Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Two defendants involved in a stolen identity and tax refund fraud scheme were sentenced to federal prison terms by U.S. District Judge Marcia G. Cooke. The scheme involved using stolen identities to file fraudulent income tax returns that falsely claimed refunds.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: ANTLERS, Okla., Feb. 4, 2020 - Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Oklahoma State Director Dr. Lee Denney announced USDA has invested $13.3 million in two, high-speed broadband infrastructure projects that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for more than 1,000 rural households in southeastern Oklahoma. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Bruce Scott Nicholson, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to five years probation for his role in a cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Franklin Israel Reyes-Zelaya, a citizen of El Salvador, was sentenced today to time served for a reentry charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Secures Denaturalization of Convicted Terrorist Who Sought to Help al Qaeda Destroy the Brooklyn Bridge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky.- Wilma Thompson, 41, of London, pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday, before U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, to obtaining a controlled substance through the registration of another and identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Five men from Jersey City, New Jersey have been charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute narcotics, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - On February 4, 2020, Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Division, and Roland D. Pandolfi, Chief of Police, Miccosukee Police Department, announced the convictions of all eight (8) defendants in United States v. Michel Aleu, et al. Case No. 19-20435-Cr-Gayles.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Fort Scott National Historic Site will host two free guided bird walks Monday, Feb. 17, from 7 to 9 am and 1 to 3 pm, for the Great Backyard Bird Count.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for distributing fentanyl, and for carrying and possessing a firearm during multiple drug-trafficking crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: FBI Seeking Information from Robbery at Regions Bank at Nashville West Branch.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: EM plans a wide range of accomplishments in 2020, including some that have been years in the making and that promise to significantly advance the cleanup mission, EM Senior Advisor Ike White told a key stakeholder audience on Jan. 31.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Little Rock and Jonesboro special agents arrested 13 people and rescued three victims following an underage sex trafficking operation in Northeast Arkansas Jan. 30, 2020.
