News from March 2020
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statements in response to the latest round of arrests of Hong Kong protesters, including prominent businessman and publisher Jimmy Lai:
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A California man today admitted shipping approximately 30 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and conspiring to send an additional five kilograms of fentanyl into New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that KiDARRYL T. PHILLIPS faces federal charges for Threatened Use of a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The University of Southern California has agreed to resolve allegations that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) at its USC Hotel adjacent to its campus by failing to provide a wheelchair-accessible room to a customer who needed one.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, U.S. Attorney General William Barr, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf, Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray, U.S. Cyber Command Commander...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Beginning Sunday, March 1, bison operations began at the Stephens Creek administrative area in Yellowstone National Park. Bison capture and shipping operations begin when bison migrate from the interior of the park into the Gardiner (Montana) Basin and may continue through late March.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $1.1 million to Oregon as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production system. Overall, USDA is ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: MIAMI -Brandon Michael Fleury, 22, of Santa Ana, California, was sentenced to 66 months in federal prison today for cyberstalking and sending a kidnapping threat to families of victims of a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, announced U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida and Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON W.Va. - An Ohio man involved in the distribution of large quantities of methamphetamine which were transported from Akron and sold in West Virginia last year was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Marquis Allen Pritchett, 22, previously pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - DeRon Parrish and Andre Parrish, both of Morgantown, West Virginia, were sentenced today for firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - An inmate at the Federal Correctional Center in Loretto, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court in Johnstown to a charge of possession of a prohibited object in prison, and immediately following, was sentenced to eight months in prison and three years’ supervised release, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, March 2, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $1.9 million to Washington State as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. - The National Park Service (NPS) is working to understand the full extent of the damage and the options to repair the Goodloe E. Byron Memorial Pedestrian Walkway (footbridge) across the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry. Planning efforts to repair the footbridge are underway. Repairs will take time given the complexity and safety issues associated with its location over a river and the fact that it is attached to an active railroad.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Patrick Freaney, Deputy Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the United States Secret Service (“Secret Service"), Troy Miller, Director of New York Field Operations for United States Customs and Border...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after the Supreme Court announced it would hear the Texas v. U.S. court case later this year. The case, brought by Republican states and supported by the Trump administration, would eliminate pre-existing condition protections, middle-class tax credits for health care and the Medicaid expansion if successful.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to drug trafficking in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted an Addison man for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Isaiah Miller, 19, has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of carjacking and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that NORMAN KLOSEK, also known as Rich Klosek, 35, of Enfield, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to offenses related to his illegal sale of numerous firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Kevin Depaul Davidson, 46, incarcerated in Fountain Correctional Facility, was sentenced on Feb. 27, 2020, for attempt to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. At the time of the offense, Davidson...
