News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Defendant used money transmitter status to hide and send drug proceeds to Mexico for drug trafficking group tied to cartel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Defendant Robbed Brooklyn Bank Hours After His Release For Prior Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Aurora Police Department Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
Release: On Jan. 21, USDA will publish in the Federal Register a proposed rule, “Streamlining Program Requirements and Improving Integrity in the Summer Food Service Program," providing flexibilities that will allow local SFSP operators to spend more time serving children wholesome meals and less time mired in red tape.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that over the course of the last several months in federal court fourteen defendants have been sentenced in a large-scale heroin trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that BERNELL BREAUX, age 57, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged in a two-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for attempted bank robbery of a Gulf Coast Bank and Trust Company branch and for bank robbery at a Capital One Bank branch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An illegal alien from El Salvador, who recently was convicted in state court of taking indecent liberties with a child, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for illegally reentering the United States after he previously was deported in 2004.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Darrell Wylie, 27, and Namir White, 29, both of Philadelphia, PA were convicted at trial on all charges arising from their involvement in illegal gun sales and the gunpoint robbery of a cooperating government informant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Chattanooga, Tenn. - On Jan. 15, 2020, Brad Anthony Majors, 37, of Shelbyville, was sentenced by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Harley Rouda, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment, sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) releasing new information in the Committee’s investigation into the Trump Administration’s use of ethics waivers to allow political appointees to continue working on matters they worked on before entering government.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Jamarius Tillie (28, Jacksonville) today pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the theft of firearms from federally licensed firearms dealers and conspiring to steal firearms from such dealers. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for the theft charge and up to 5 years in federal prison for the conspiracy charge. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: For the last four days, Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and detectives of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) have sought to arrest Gerod Woodberry pursuant to a federal arrest warrant charging him with bank robbery.[1] That effort was necessary because, as set forth...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida- U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Lelia Vanessa Perdomo Zapata (26, Colombia, South America) to 15 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine while onboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, for possession with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine on that vessel, and for perjury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Scranton, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Zaire Unique Burkett, a 20-year old man from Whitehall, Lehigh County.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management has published a Notice of Intent in the Federal Register to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement to consider proposed revisions to the agency’s grazing regulations. The BLM currently manages livestock grazing on 155 million of the 245 million acres of public land and administers nearly 18,000 grazing permits and leases.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Portland, Ore. - Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the Decision Record for the reclassification of public domain lands as part in one of the final steps of the implementation of the Western Oregon Tribal Fairness Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Florence, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced today that Donna Faye Shird, 41, of Florence, was sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to aid in the preparation and filing of false federal income tax returns.
By State Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, has announced a new date to hear testimony from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the Trump Administration’s policy toward Iran, Iraq, and the use of force in the region.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel today sentenced Justin Paul Keener, age 31, of Patuxent River, Maryland, to 25 years in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, on each of two counts of abusive sexual contact with a child, to be served concurrently. Judge Hazel...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2020
News Release: Keystone, SD - National Park Service Regional Director Bert Frost has announced that Patricia Trap will be serving as acting superintendent at Mount Rushmore National Memorial. She assumed her temporary position on January 6, 2020.
