News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JACHIM BROWN, also known as “Ameer Edwards," 29, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 260 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for committing several violent armed robberies in 2017 during which he shot and wounded two individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: A leader of a Guatemalan drug trafficking organization was sentenced today to 23 years in prison for his participation in an international drug trafficking conspiracy, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge Wendy Woolcock of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Operations Division.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announces the 60-day public comment period for Shasta County Water Agency draft repayment contract. This draft contract provides project water service and facilities repayment pursuant to the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act).
By USDA Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
Release: The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is updating its regulations for the accredited veterinarian program, in order to clarify program definitions.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Mitchell, Oregon - Do you want to have a positive impact at your local national park? John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is recruiting community volunteers to become members of the Painted Hills Pals. The park is seeking summer volunteers who want to help keep Painted Hills beautiful by providing visitor assistance, spending time outside, and/or hiking trails.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: WISDOM, Mont., Feb. 24, 2020 - Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development State Director Charles Robison joined Rep. Greg Gianforte to announce USDA has invested $3.3 million in a high-speed broadband infrastructure project that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for 142 homes, businesses, farms and ranches in Beaverhead County. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Former Florida Department of Corrections Officer Convicted of Civil Rights Conspiracy to Assault Youthful Offenders.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KENTWAN ROBINSON, also known as Thomas Robinson, 27, of Ansonia, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A North Carolina woman made her initial appearance in federal court today on charges of allegedly assaulting a Federal Air Marshal.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announces the 60-day public comment period for the City of Shasta Lake draft repayment contract. This draft contract provides project water service and facilities repayment pursuant to the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Wayne Dale Epps, Jr. (35, Jacksonville) has been arrested and charged with using the internet to attempt to entice a 12-year-old child to engage in sexual activity. Epps faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison. Epps is currently in federal custody and has been ordered detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: West Palm Beach, Florida - Robert Solove, 28, of Boca Raton, Florida, was arrested and charged by federal criminal complaint with production, distribution, and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced the resolution of two Project Safe Childhood cases last week, each separately noted.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN -Artavius Burnett, 21, has been sentenced to 180 months in federal prison for the armed robbery of two businesses, theft from a Federal Firearms Licensee, the disposing and selling of stolen firearms, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former Holyoke kindergarten teacher pleaded guilty on Friday, February 21st in federal court in Worcester to possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Cambridge woman was arrested on Friday, February 21st for stealing Social Security and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A South Texas woman was taken into custody Monday, following an indictment alleging she made a false statement to authorities in a bribery investigation involving alien detainee roster lists.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Donna Mahar, 61, of Danvers, Massachusetts, was sentenced today for conspiracy to obstruct justice. District Judge Christina Reiss ordered defendant Mahar to a time-served (one day) incarcerative sentence, a six-month ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: BAYFIELD, WISCONSIN - Join us for the third and final 50th Anniversary lecture hosted by Northland College. Sarah Johnson, Northland College Professor, will be presenting on Vegetation Legacies and Change - A Half-Century of Stewardship in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, February 27 at 7:00 pm, at the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute in Ashland, Wisconsin. The event is free and open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - A federal grand jury sitting in Charlotte returned a criminal bill of indictment on Feb. 20, 2020, charging Shannon White, 42, an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and resident of the Cherokee Indian Reservation, with distributing fentanyl that resulted in...
