News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Ricky Thomas, 52, of Gallup, N.M., was sentenced on Feb. 13 in federal court in Albuquerque to 33 months in prison for assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: By Adam Cancryn. POLITICO . 2/19/2020. …. The vast majority of Americans rank cutting health care and prescription drug costs as their top priorities heading into election season, regardless of party affiliation, according to a new POLITICO-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health survey. Those topics...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award $9.4 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants to 11 airports in Utah. This investment in Utah’s airports is part of a $520.5 million national investment in America’s airports that was announced today by Secretary Chao.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Two Texas men have been sentenced to federal prison for drug and gun violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: In his immortal Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln challenged all Americans to advance the ideals of the Declaration of Independence - “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us." In the spirit of Lincoln’s most famous speech, Gettysburg National Military...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today that a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh has returned five separate, but related, indictments charging five Western Pennsylvania residents with drug and/or gun charges relating to an investigation into a group of drug traffickers identifying...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award $21.47 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants to 16 airports in Oklahoma. This investment in Oklahoma’s airports is part of a $520.5 million national investment in America’s airports that was announced today by Secretary Chao.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Rodriguez-Soto organized and managed the criminal organization known as Bulls Auto Enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that John Ryall, Jr., age 40, of Simpson, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Feb. 13, 2020, by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 108 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release, for an armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Dunbar Armored Inc. employee was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for orchestrating the theft of nearly $300,000 in cash out of Dunbar’s storage facility in Vernon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio, a 34-year-old Schertz, TX, resident waived his arraignment, thus pleading not guilty to charge involving kidnapping and child exploitation, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - Dylan Brewer, 23, of Harlan County, was sentenced Wednesday to 200 months in federal prison by United States District Judge Robert Wier for possession with the intent to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Stole Over $400,000 From Her Elderly Uncle.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Tavis Washburn, 27, of Sanostee, N.M., was sentenced on Feb. 13 in federal court in Santa Fe, New Mexico to 71 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter and child abuse in Indian Country.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $709,222 grant to the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Odanah, Wisconsin, to hire an Economic Recovery Coordinator to advance disaster recovery efforts in the region. The project is located near a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act designated Opportunity Zone.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced today that Zachary Shakur Stephens, age 26, of Newberry, was arrested for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and has been detained following a hearing in federal court in Greenville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Diamond, Missouri, man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for the sexual exploitation of a minor.
By State Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: TBILISI, Georgia - U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staff Director Chris Socha arrived in Tbilisi for discussions concerning the current political environment in Georgia with Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia and other government officials, political party leaders, the chairman of the parliament ...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A southeastern Missouri man was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday for the sexual exploitation of a minor.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent a letter to Amazon seeking information about its subsidiary Ring Inc.’s partnerships with city governments and local police departments, along with the company’s policies governing the data it collects. Ring sells internet-connected home surveillance equipment, such as doorbell cameras and cameras inside children’s bedrooms.
