News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Cresencio Antonio Chinchilla-Roque, age 26, of Honduras, was indicted on Jan. 22, 2020, by a federal grand jury with illegal re-entry into the United States by a previously deported alien.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Information is key in times of crisis. Public safety and emergency management agencies need fast, reliable data to help them make the best possible decisions, which means dependable communication systems can directly lead to saving lives.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Backcountry recreationists are encouraged to visit the Bridger-Teton Avalanche Center website to make better informed decisions about winter backcountry activities in Grand Teton National Park. The avalanche center website includes a new weekly discussion that highlights backcountry conditions in the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Deandre Laquan Jones, a/k/a “Cuz," age 27, of Towson, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, possession with intent to distribute drugs near a school, and to being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Christopher C. Cantwell, 39, of Keene, was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with making extortionate communications and sending interstate threats, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -A former resident of Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA-Selling methamphetamine to an undercover agent in 2018 sent a Marion resident to prison today for one year and one day to be followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - The Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office today honored 35 police officers and federal agents for outstanding work in support of significant federal violent crime prosecutions. Recipients included police officers from Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, City of Hyattsville, Montgomery County, Prince George’s County, Prince William County, Virginia, and the University Park Police Department; and federal agents from ATF, DEA, FBI, and HSI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Williamsport, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Tyrone James Moten, a 21-year old Montoursville man.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Belgian national holding an Illinois law license has been indicted on money laundering charges involving funds obtained from three Massachusetts victims.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Marshall County, Kansas, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to excessive rain, flash flooding, flooding, high winds, and hail that occurred between Jan. 1 and July 10, 2019, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Carried a handgun loaded with hollow point bullets.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - The Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office today honored 35 police officers and federal agents for outstanding work in support of significant federal violent crime prosecutions. Recipients included police officers from Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, City of Hyattsville, Montgomery County, Prince George’s County, Prince William County, Virginia, and the University Park Police Department; and federal agents from ATF, DEA, FBI, and HSI.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -In recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day-and 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau-Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, entitled, “75 Years After the Holocaust: The Ongoing Battle Against Hate."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Russian national pleaded guilty today to charges related to his operation of two websites devoted to the facilitation of payment card fraud, computer hacking, and other crimes.
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 Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: This winter, enjoy a variety of documentary films at 1:00 pm every Saturday afternoon at Indiana Dunes National Park’s Paul H. Douglas Center. In honor of Black History Month, February’s movies will feature some of America’s civil rights heroes whose lives are commemorated in the national parks.
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 US DOT Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-AR) today applauded the Administration for finalizing a new rule to provide for the reasonable regulation of the Nation’s waters without trampling the rights of states, local communities, farmers, small businesses, and private citizens across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. District Judge Judith C. Herrera sentenced Raymond Moya, 36, of Albuquerque, to life imprisonment in federal court today for his conviction on two heroin trafficking offenses, including a distribution of heroin on Aug. 12, 2011, that resulted in the death of Cameron Weiss, an 18-year-old La Cueva High School student, on Aug. 13, 2011. A federal jury convicted Moya on May 13, 2019, following a six-day trial.
