News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that two men involved in a New Haven-based drug trafficking organization were sentenced today in Hartford federal court. U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant sentenced MARVIN SPRUILL, 27, of West Haven, to 57 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release, and CARNELL EDWARDS, 49, of Bridgeport, to 30 months of imprisonment and five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Convicted Felon and Meth User Possessed a Gun and Fled from Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - A convicted felon faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty to planning and executing a string of armed robberies and carjackings across Georgia and South Carolina in November 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Melinda Sharon Higgins, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 15 months incarceration for drug distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) led a Committee markup to advance nine pieces of legislation, including key Natural Resources measures to reverse President Trump’s efforts to gut the Endangered Species Act and to reduce climate change impacts on at-risk species.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: The following statement was issued by the four U.S. Attorneys who serve California: David L. Anderson (Northern District of California), Robert S. Brewer (Southern District of California), Nicola T. Hanna (Central District of California), and McGregor W. Scott (Eastern District of California).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania is promoting the Department of Justice’s Elder Justice Initiative throughout the Middle District, announced U.S. Attorney David J. Freed. On Jan. 28, 2020, the Middle District partnered with the FBI and AARP to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times more potent than.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities this morning arrested three top administrators of a Philippines-based church on federal charges of participating in an immigration fraud scheme that brought church members to the United States to work as fundraisers, and then arranged sham marriages and other illegal mechanisms to keep high-performing workers in the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Charlie Foster, age 39, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was sentenced yesterday to 210 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for one count of being a Felon In Possession of a Firearm. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs is pleased to sponsor the 2020 Tribal Energy Webinar Series with the theme of “How to…" Intended for tribal leaders, tribal staff, and others interested in energy development in Indian Country, the monthly webinars will focus...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal jury in Las Cruces, New Mexico returned a verdict on January 28 convicting Dain Justin Adams, 38, of Roswell, New Mexico, of child pornography charges including distribution, receipt, and possession of sexually explicit material.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Guatemalan national wanted for his role in sexual violence targeting indigenous women in the 1980s, was removed to his native country by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers Jan. 29. His removal follows a federal conviction in December 2019, for illegally reentering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEFFREY BRAZIER, 50, of Hamden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Academy Fruit Company LLC satisfied a reparation order in the amount of $104,195 issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving unpaid produce transaction(s).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced brothers JUSTIN and STERLING WHITAKER, 27 and 22, of Goldsboro, North Carolina. JUSTIN WHITAKER received a sentence of 147 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release. STERLING WHITAKER was sentenced to 126 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing, “Stakeholder perspectives on the importance of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the Chairs of three U.S. House Committees released a framework for a five-year, $760 billion investment in infrastructure that would address some of the country’s most urgent infrastructure needs, from addressing the massive maintenance backlog, to designing safer streets, to...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Judiciary Committee Republican Leader Doug Collins (R-GA) applauded House passage of S. 3201, the temporary extension on the fentanyl analogues ban.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the Chairs of three U.S. House Committees released a framework for a five-year, $760 billion investment in infrastructure that would address some of the country’s most urgent infrastructure needs, from addressing the massive maintenance backlog, to designing safer streets, to...
