News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas prohibited person who pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm, based on a prior conviction for domestic violence, was sentenced Monday to 20 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Acting Special Agent in Charge Frederic D. Winston for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for the San Francisco Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General William P. Barr, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, and Chief Postal Inspector Gary R. Barksdale today announced the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history. This year, prosecutors charged more than 400 defendants, far surpassing the 260 defendants charged...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are a constant and ever-changing threat to the security of our nation. Their extreme destructive potential demands innovative solutions. That’s where the Reverse Velocity Jet Tamper (ReVJeT) comes in.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland, Ohio, returned a superseding indictment charging twenty defendants for their roles in an international drug distribution conspiracy, which includes the illegal sales of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: NORTH BEND, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management Coos Bay District sold 1.94 million board feet of timber at an oral auction on Friday, February 28. The timber, located on Oregon and California Railroad Revested (O&C) Lands in Coos County, sold for $529,615.10.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Philadelphia, PA - Members of the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force arrested Dominique Carter, 29, for homicide and related charges, at approximately 6:30 a.m. on March 3rd in the 600 block of Poplar Street in Sharon Hill Pennsylvania. Carter was wanted for vehicular homicide since Feb. 11, 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Dear Mr. Vice President: As American citizens and communities across the country prepare for the threat of novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), I write to ask about the information the federal government is providing the American people. News reports, as well as the State Department, have documented significant...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Hundreds of community members and former workers weathered subfreezing temperatures Feb. 27 to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new K-25 History Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Identical twin brothers who admitted to child sex exploitation and child pornography offenses were sentenced on Monday to 30 and 25 years in prison, respectively, to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of STEVEN ALLEN LINDQUIST, 30, to 204 months in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. LINDQUIST, who pleaded guilty on Oct. 31, 2019, was sentenced today before Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court in...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Brothel owner Helen Kim was sentenced yesterday evening to 46 months in federal prison on a racketeering charge, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial is accepting applications for the National Park Service Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program for the 2020 season. This summer, the YCC employees will learn new skills in split rail fence repair, hiking trail maintenance, and wrought iron fence repair and maintenance, and cultural landscape maintenance.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
Release: Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH), Chair of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget requests for House officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CHRISTIAN ERAZO pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to conspiring with others to commit wire fraud and computer intrusion. As part of that scheme, ERAZO and others obtained unauthorized access...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Kareem Mack, a/k/a K Mack, age 29, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances related to his participation in a drug trafficking organization that distributed heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and crack cocaine in Maryland and surrounding...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) issued the following statement today after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report stating that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is refusing to share documents and information related to EPA’s enforcement program...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams joined Attorney General William P. Barr, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, and Chief Postal Inspector Gary R. Barksdale today in announcing the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history. This year, prosecutors charged more than 400 defendants...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Brandon Patton, 28, of Minot, North Dakota, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking offense, and felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Daniel Neill for the DEA.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, joined Attorney General William P. Barr today in announcing two initiatives to protect the elderly.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -E&C GOP Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) along with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), and House Republican Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) held a press conference to provide updates on coronavirus.
