News from February 2020
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: A number of EM sites marked Engineers Week, Feb. 16-22, in a variety of ways, from conducting creative science and engineering demonstrations with middle school students, to inspiring interest in the field of engineering in high school students, to highlighting the careers of women engineers advancing...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JORGE ALBERTO RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ, 33, a citizen of Honduras last residing in Stamford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to unlawful reentry of a removed alien.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Caliente and Cedar City field offices concluded the Eagle Complex wild horse gather on Feb. 25, 2020. The BLM gathered 1,716 excess wild horses from in and around the Chokecherry, Eagle and Mt. Elinore Herd Management Areas (HMAs) located in Lincoln County, Nevada and Beaver and Iron counties, Utah. The BLM treated 28 mares with the fertility control vaccine GonaCon-Equine and released them with 19 stud horses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: COLUMBIA, S.C. - Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced today that Brian William Rose of Aiken County was sentenced in federal court for his involvement in a methamphetamine and heroin conspiracy and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - Henri Michelle Piette, who had been found guilty by a federal jury on June 6, 2019, was sentenced on Feb. 20, 2020, to life imprisonment for Kidnapping, and 360 months for Traveling With Intent to Engage in Sexual Acts With a Juvenile. His sentenced included a $50,000 fine and restitution to the victim in the amount of $50,067.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Charges are the result of the multi-agency partnership at CGIC to increase federal prosecutions of individuals who illegally possess firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN -Harry French, 21, has been sentenced to 246 months in federal prison for carjacking and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence in two separate criminal episodes. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Rochester, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury has convicted an Indiana man of kidnapping a child from a Calumet City street as she walked home from school.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today, Donte Swinton, 25, Indianapolis, who on February 5, 2020 exited his vehicle and pointed what appeared to be an AR-15 style weapon, at an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department detective, was charged today with possession of a firearm after having been convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Distributed More Than 100 Kilos of Meth in Buchanan, Clinton, Nodaway Counties.
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: Portland, Maine: A Westbrook man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Portland to distributing images of child exploitation, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa. has been sentenced in federal court in Johnstown to 46 months in prison and six years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Eleven people were charged today for their roles as members and associates of a drug trafficking organization involved in the distribution of narcotics, including heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine base (crack) in the Stephen Crane Village Housing Complex in Newark, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND- Javier Aguilera, 27, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced by Judge Philip P. Simon to 216 months in prison following his guilty plea to conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity as a member of the Latin Dragons Nation street gang, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Emmett David Smart (29, Jacksonville) to five years in federal prison for arson of a residential apartment building. The court also ordered Smart to pay $148,920.09 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - Scotty Dale Johnson, 48, of Richmond, Kentucky, was indicted earlier this month in federal court, for producing, receiving, and possessing sexually explicit images of children.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Sacramento, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation today announced the initial 2020 water supply allocation for Central Valley Project contractors. Allocation amounts are based on an estimate of water available for delivery to CVP water users and reflects current reservoir storages, precipitation, and snowpack in the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Feb. 25, 2020 - Ilaine T. Newby, 51, of Antioch, Tennessee, was sentenced Friday to 12 months and 1 day in prison for embezzling over $206,000 from a Smyrna, Tennessee-based company, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee. U.S. District Judge William...
