News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging David Washington, a/k/a Dirty Dave, a/k/a Dirt, a/k/a Wavy Davey, 39, and Eleazar Martinez Medina, 50, with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, five kilograms or more of cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, and a maximum of life in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: John Brown Named Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - Travis Mills, 35, of Barboursville, Kentucky, was sentenced to 121 months in federal prison on Monday, by United States District Judge Robert Wier, after pleading guilty to trafficking more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 25, 2020 - Agricultural producers and private landowners interested in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) 2020 general signup must make an offer of acres or schedule an appointment to do so with their local U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) service center by Friday, February 28.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s top Republican today announced that U.S. Rep. John Katko (R-NY) has been named to serve as the Ranking Republican Member of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Small Business, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sent letters seeking documents from the Puerto Rico Department of Justice, the Puerto Rico...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM workers recently finished constructing a large underground, water-permeable wall made of recycled iron filings that neutralize Cold War-era chemical solvents found in the aquifer beneath the Savannah River Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Anderson Daniel Jorge Cruz, 21, of Lowell, Mass., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young to 70 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Ocean County, New Jersey, man was arrested this morning on charges that he induced a minor to send him sexually explicit pictures and to engage in sexually explicit conduct over an online messaging service, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The National Safety Council recently awarded the EM Hanford Site ’s 222-S Laboratory the Safety Leadership Award for achieving more than five consecutive years without a recordable or lost-workday injury.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Georgia high school students who take part in a program to equip them with technical occupational skills recently toured EM maintenance facilities at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Kenai Fjords National Park will open the Exit Glacier Developed Area to off road snowmachine use at 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. Open areas include, the Exit Glacier Road, a designated route through the Exit Glacier campground to Exit Creek, and the Exit Glacier outwash plain.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rashad Liverpool, 27, and Robert Tillery, 44, pleaded guilty today of one count of Financial Exploitation of an Elderly Person or Vulnerable Adult. The two former SunTrust Bank employees defrauded a 72-year old widow with diminished capacity of over $80,000, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Shea. Both defendants agreed to pay restitution as part of their plea and will be sentenced on April 28, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss - David Michael Gammill, 44, of Vicksburg, pled guilty yesterday before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 40-year-old U.S. citizen and resident of San Nicolas, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, has been ordered to prison after admitting she trafficked a large amount of “ice" meth into the country, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Deputy Director and Senior Official Performing the duties of the Director Matthew T. Albence thanked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) today for their report on ICE’s Criminal Alien Program (CAP), which concluded when law enforcement agencies cooperate, ICE is successful at identifying and arresting criminal aliens.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Thomas Edison and the Literary Imagination.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: A Dubuque man who possessed and sold crack cocaine near a school was sentenced today to more than five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Browning woman who admitted she had been drinking and driving when she crashed a truck on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and injured two passengers was sentenced today to 27 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
