News from March 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
Release: Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL), Chair of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's Member Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - Ezequiel Vega-Solano, a 22-year old Mexican national, previously residing in Foley, Alabama, pleaded guilty today to illegal alien transportation, announced U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph. Vega-Solano, originally from Sonora, Mexico, was in the United States as a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and a Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) investigation, a federal grand jury returned Feb. 17, an indictment against Gilberto J. Meléndez-Colón...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: For Further Information, Contact: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kevin Mokhtari (619) 546-8402 and David J. Rawls (619) 546-7966. SAN DIEGO - Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment in San Diego today charging the owner of a large residential compound in Vista with maintaining a drug-involved premises.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - A 20-year-old Guatemalan national illegally present in the U.S. was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers March 2. ERO had previously lodged an immigration detainer with the New York City Department of Corrections (NYCDOC) following his arrest for sexual offenses in Brooklyn.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: El Dorado, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that six (6) people have been sentenced for their roles in a Union County methamphetamine distribution ring. The Honorable Judge Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearings in the El Dorado Division of the United States District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing heroin to distribute and illegally possessing 10 firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A former North Providence and Pawtucket resident arrested twice for sharing child pornography online, and who was found to be in possession of more than 11,400 images and videos of child pornography, including a video he produced that depicts him sexually assaulting a minor female, was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) introduced H.R. 6061, the State Justice Improvement Act, legislation that will make lasting changes to America’s criminal justice system. Across the country, courts often impose fines, fees, and monetary bail without considering ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: FBI Seeking the Identity of Robber from New Orleans Firemen’s Federal Credit Union Robbery on Feb. 19, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Marshals and the FBI are alerting the public of several nationwide imposter scams involving individuals claiming to be U.S. marshals, court officers, or other law enforcement officials. They are urging people to report the calls their Local FBI office and file a consumer complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, which has the ability to detect patterns of fraud from the information collected and share that data with law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - Marek K. Grigsby, 35, was sentenced this morning in U.S. District Court to 330 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for producing child pornography and producing obscene images of the sexual abuse of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Anthony Lazzarino, 69, former Chief of Podiatry for the Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Northern California Health Care System, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to six years and six months in prison for health care fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Chair of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request for the National Gallery of Art.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: 2 Defendants Charged in the Western District of Tennessee.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
Release: Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Chair of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's Member Day.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Beginning this May through September, major road construction will occur on US 36 inside of Rocky Mountain National Park. The work will take place on a 3-mile section of US 36, just west of Bear Lake Road junction to east of Deer Ridge Junction. Beginning in May, this section of road will be closed nightly from 7 pm to 7 am, Sunday nights through Friday mornings. There will be no nightly closures on Friday and Saturday nights.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury indicted Timothy Mulligan for the unlawful distribution of opioids, including fentanyl, outside the scope of professional practice and health care fraud, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on reducing child poverty.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - A former member of the Guatemalan army wanted for participating in the Dos Erres massacre nearly four decades ago, was removed Tuesday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Miami.
