News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - Francisco Joseph Arcila Ramirez (Arcila), a Colombian national and South Florida resident was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez for illegally selling firearms to the National Liberation Army (ELN), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization and a violent paramilitary group operating in South America.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, along with U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Senate Judiciary Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein, Immigration Subcommittee Ranking Member Dick Durbin and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, Immigration ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: As I typed this out, I received an email from the Franklin County Coroner, Dr. Anahi Ortiz. She let me know that there were seven overdose deaths in Franklin County this weekend. Unfortunately, this is not the worst email I have received from Dr. Ortiz. In September, there were ten overdose deaths in one day.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Keith Frazier, of Columbus, Ohio, has admitted to drug distribution, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - EM has awarded fees to three prime contractors at its Portsmouth, Ohio and Paducah, Kentucky cleanup sites based on their performance in fiscal 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Knoxville, Tennessee - On Jan. 28, 2020, Joshua Small, 52, and Joni Amber Johnson, 36, both of Princeton, West Virginia, were sentenced by the Honorable Chief Judge Pamela Reeves in the United States Courthouse in Knoxville for their roles in a conspiracy to assault, kidnap, and rob elderly victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell today sentenced Shamon D. Heatly (37, St. Petersburg) to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for selling cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: The summer wilderness backpacking season is rapidly approaching and planning ahead is critical. Many of the most popular wilderness camp areas in the park have limits for how many people can camp on any given night. These quotas minimize human impacts and provide a quality wilderness experience.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of one count of distribution of a controlled substance resulting in serious bodily injury and one count of obstructing justice by retaliating against a witness, victim or informant and aiding and abetting was sentenced on Jan. 28, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: A man who possessed a gun while unlawfully using two drugs was sentenced Jan. 27, 2020, to more than one year in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM crews at the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP) at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site recently completed remote treatment and repackaging of some of the most challenging waste in the facility’s 17-year history.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Juwon Cordelle Potter, a citizen of the British Virgin Islands, was charged with destroying a record or tangible object with the intent to impede a federal investigation and with knowingly and willfully entering the United States at a time and place other than as designated by Immigration...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The leader and the main treasurer of the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ were sentenced to federal prison today for their respective roles in a scheme in which both men caused the church to pay millions of dollars in personal expenses for the leader that the leader then omitted from his personal tax returns, U.S Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATHANIEL RODRIGUEZ, 24, of Enfield, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - Francisco Joseph Arcila Ramirez (Arcila), a Colombian national and South Florida resident was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez for illegally selling firearms to the National Liberation Army (ELN), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization and a violent paramilitary group operating in South America.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I -Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will host a special After Dark in the Park program on Japanese American internment during World War II at 7 p.m. on February 18. The new film, Minidoka: An American Concentration Camp will be shown.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Distributed meth within 1000 feet of Cook Park.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC), a member of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a joint subcommittee hearing on maternal and infant health...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement slamming Democrats for putting politics over progress on climate policy, rather than working with Republicans on bipartisan solutions for the environment and the economy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) employee was charged in federal court in Boston with embezzling nearly $70,000 in VA funds.
