News from January 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: NOAA’s polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites are part of the global Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking System, or COSPAS-SARSAT offsite link, which uses a network of U.S. and international spacecraft to detect and locate distress signals from emergency beacons aboard aircraft, boats and from handheld Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs) anywhere in the world.
By State Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
Release: More information about Fiji is available on the Fiji country page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Barret J. Paman, 32, of Maui County, was sentenced today in federal court by United States District Judge Jill A. Otake to 46 months of imprisonment, and three years of supervised release for possession of stolen firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Standing Together for Civil Rights is the theme for the 51st Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, sponsored by the Manzanar Committee, scheduled for Saturday, April 25, 2020, at the Manzanar National Historic Site, located on U.S. Highway 395 in California’s Owens Valley, between the towns of Lone Pine and Independence, approximately 230 miles north of Los Angeles.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III today sentenced David Richison, age 64, of Frederick, Maryland, to 48 months in federal prison for wire fraud and aiding in the filing of a false tax return. Richison, who owned and operated a payroll processing business, took funds from...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 14 North Carolina counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Beaufort, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Dare, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Martin, Onslow, Robeson, Sampson, Tyrrell, and Washington counties who suffered losses caused by Hurricane Dorian that occurred from Sept. 6 through Sept. 10, 2019, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - A Peoria man was sentenced Jan. 16 to 12 years imprisonment by the Maricopa Superior Court for sexually exploiting a minor following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Joseph Charles Nolan pleaded guilty to two felony counts, each involving an image of a girl whom doctors estimated to be less than 13-years-old.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CYRUS BRADFORD, 43, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Defendants in three separate cases appeared in federal court and have been sentenced to prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Mustafa al-Imam, a 47-year-old Libyan national, was sentenced today to 236 months in prison on federal terrorism charges stemming from the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. Special Mission and CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. government personnel Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty died in the attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOEL C. RILEY, 48, of Wallingford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for bankruptcy fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, La. - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that CHRISTOPHER WATSON, age 28, has pled guilty on Jan. 22, 2020 to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud, and one count of aggravated identity theft, stemming from his arrest in Jefferson Parish in the summer of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Sean Andrew O’Neal, 58, of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, was sentenced today in Omaha, Nebraska, to 54 months in prison by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for wire fraud. There is no parole in the federal system. O’Neal was also ordered to pay $477,324.27 in restitution to his victims. After his prison sentence, O’Neal will serve a three-year of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Mustafa Al-Imam Sentenced to More than 19 Years in Prison for September 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi, Libya.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - John Burton and Nico Nixon were convicted following guilty pleas to fentanyl and heroin trafficking and firearm crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael Shavar Payton, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to his role in a cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Operation is Considered the Largest Officer-Involved Take-Down in ACCPD History.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, KY- A Frankfort, Kentucky, man, Leonard Glover, 32, was sentenced to 135 months on Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge Gregory VanTatenhove, after previously admitting to possession with the intent to distribute 10 grams of more of acefentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Igor Grushko, 33, and Denis Grushko, 29, Russian nationals who were residing in Fort Lauderdale, Florida were sentenced yesterday to 145 months in prison, after having been previously convicted by a South Florida federal jury of aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to possess and use stolen credit cards, production of fraudulent credit cards, and production of counterfeit identification documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: For Possessing Firearms as a Felon.
