News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO - The Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Marshals Service, and multiple law enforcement agencies arrested 15 people, including five St. Louis area residents, today on charges that they conspired to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl. Among those charged were.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - An employee of the IRS Service Center in Andover was charged today with filing over 500 false tax returns for herself and other individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on Jan. 14, 2020, Dustin Shawn Morrison, age 39, of Council Bluffs, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance. Morrison was sentenced to 151 months in prison to be followed by a term of supervised release of five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - Twelve individuals from three states have been charged in a federal indictment returned in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - The environment health and safety magazine EHS Today has named EM’s prime infrastructure contractor at the Paducah Site as one of America’s Safest Companies.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, and Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Oversight and Reform Committee, sent letters to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense seeking information related to press reports that U.S. servicemembers and special operations forces who deployed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were reportedly exposed to cancer-causing hazards.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - As a former college golfer and current project controls specialist, Patrick Cunning is navigating the course of costs and schedules for tank closure project teams at EM’s Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that Marvin Graves, 22, and Dominique Jones, 31, both of Indianapolis, were recently charged in separate complaints for federal firearm offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: DALLAS - A woman who videotaped as she forced a 9-year-old girl to perform sex acts on her husband was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, Tuesday, for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Juan Ortega-Baez, 19, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 36 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The skyline at Oak Ridge’s East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) continually changes as EM completes demolitions.
By State Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on Mustafa Kassem’s death in an Egyptian prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Derrick Hough, of Charles Town, West Virginia, has admitted to drug distribution, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two Michigan men pled guilty to federal drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A member of a drug-trafficking organization today admitted his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin in Camden, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Atlantic City, N.J.- The FAA completed construction and opened a new indoor fire research facility in December to conduct performance tests of potential replacement fire extinguishing agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Marshals Service, and multiple law enforcement agencies arrested 15 people today, including five St. Louis area residents, on charges that they conspired to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl. Among those charged were...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Greeneville, Tenn. - On Jan. 13, 2020, Alex Lorenzo Robinson, 38, of Elizabethton, and formerly of Conway, South Carolina, was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, Sr. in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville. As part of the plea agreement, Robinson...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf, and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon today regarding their concerns...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Juan Carlos Montalbo, 57, of San Antonio, Texas, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a timeshare fraud in Mexico, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
