News from January 2020
By DOE Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement slamming Democrats for putting politics over solutions to the country’s PFAS challenges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Punch It Performance and Tuning Agrees to Stop Selling Illegal Devices That Defeat Emissions Control Systems of Vehicles in the Wake of Clean Air Act Enforcement Action.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced ANTHONY GABRIEL JOHNSON, 42, of Fayetteville, NC, today. JOHNSON was sentenced to 212 months imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: STATESBORO, Ga. -- Four people have been indicted on federal charges for running a methamphetamine distribution ring throughout Bulloch County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Independence, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing methamphetamine and firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced KEENAN JOSHUA BYRD, 23, of Raleigh, NC, to 48 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that HECTOR SILVA-TOLENTINO, age 29, was charged in a one-count Bill of Information for illegal use of a social security number in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A two-count federal indictment was unsealed Jan. 3, 2020 charging Sonia Tabibzada, 35, of San Jacinto, California, for threatening to bomb the Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington, DC. Count One charges Tabibzada with intentionally attempting to obstruct persons in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Ronald Rice, aka Lil Ron, 35, Madison, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Madison to illegal possession of a firearm by a felon. This charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement slamming Democrats for putting politics over solutions to the country’s PFAS challenges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Dr. Justin Neisler, MD, age 31 of Denver, Colorado, pleaded guilty yesterday to the production of child pornography before U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore. Dr. Neisler appeared at the change of plea hearing in custody and was remanded at the hearing’s conclusion. He is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Moore on May 22, 2020. The Denver office of the FBI joined in this announcement.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: PRAIRIE DU SAC, WI - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Milwaukee Valve Company Inc. - based in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin - for exposing employees to lead and copper dust at rates higher than the permissible exposure levels. OSHA has proposed $171,628 in penalties to the industrial valve manufacturing company.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Somerset man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Springfield for illegally participating in a loan with a financial institution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - THADDEUS CARTER, age 46, of New Orleans, Louisiana, and GUADELUPE PEREIDA, age 44, of Douglas, Arizona, were sentenced on January 9, 2020 before the Honorable Carl J. Barbier for violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault on a Federal Officer was sentenced by U.S. Magistrate Judge Daneta Wollmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: ATHENS, Ga. - A married couple engaged in a drug trafficking scheme moving methamphetamine through the U.S. mail service was sentenced for their crimes, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Amy Berg, 46, and Joshua Woodey, 39, both of Athens-Clarke...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan, sentenced GLENN SHAW, 43, of Princeton to 172 months’ imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release. SHAW was named in a four-count Superseding Indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Aesha Rivers, age 44, of St. Croix, was sentenced on Jan. 10, 2020, after being convicted by a federal jury of 48 counts of Wire Fraud; 1 count of Theft of Government Money; and 1 count of False Statement to Government, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. The jury trial commenced on April 30, 2019 and concluded on May 2, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - Bureau of Land Management fire crews will be burning piles of brush and small trees near Lake Oroville in Butte County from Monday, Jan. 13, through Friday, Jan. 17. Crews will ignite the piles only when weather conditions and fuel moisture are suitable for safe and successful burning.
