News from June 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Lightning sparks new wildfires in central section of Noatak.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
Release: MANCHESTER, N.H. - A Merrimack County, New Hampshire, man was caught with a.45 caliber handgun loaded with eight bullets, including one in the chamber at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport on Sunday, June 7.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role as a member of a heroin trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.’s (D-NJ) remarks as prepared for delivery for today’s Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “Pollution and Pandemics: COVID-19’s Disproportionate Impact on Environmental Justice Communities:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of theft of government funds, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Spokane - The Department of Justice has announced nearly $400 million in grant funding through the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The Attorney General announced funding awards to 596 law enforcement agencies across the nation, which...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Ricardo Uribe, age 37 of Springdale, AR was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison followed by 4 years of supervised release on one count of Distribution of More Than 50 Grams of a Mixture of Methamphetamine. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing today in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Marlon Monta Williams, 27, of Jackson, Mississippi, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge David C. Bramlette III to 33 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi. Williams was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Pomona, California, woman was sentenced in federal court today for leading a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine in Jasper County, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Oak Grove, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for distributing the heroin that resulted in the overdose death of an Arizona man visiting his family in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. The Drug Enforcement Administration investigated the case with the Jackson County Drug Task Force.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Tuesday, June 16, at 12 p.m. (EDT). The hearing is entitled, “Reviving our Economy: COVID-19’s Impact on the Energy Sector."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Fire burned approximately 1,888 acres in Jackson County in August 2018.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced nearly $11 billion in energy-cost savings by more than 950 public and private sector organizations in DOE’s Better Buildings Initiative. To date, partners have saved nearly 1.8 quadrillion British thermal units of energy, which is equivalent to the electricity consumption of 27 million homes in America over one year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Brian Arnold, 49, of Pine City, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to embezzlement of union funds. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two South Dakota men were recently sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - John Maasen, 65, of Olivehurst, pleaded guilty today to possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Melanie K. Pierson (619) 546-7976.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey of the Eastern District of Tennessee today announced that the Blount County Sheriff’s Office received $79,292 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management today honors the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument’s 20-year anniversary. The 176,000-acre monument was designated on June 9, 2000, by Presidential Proclamation to protect cultural and natural resources on a landscape scale.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - With cleanup sites beginning to ramp back up to full operations in a phased and deliberate approach, EM remains poised to complete many of its top priorities this year, Senior Advisor William “Ike" White told an industry group last week.
