News from May 2020
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal criminal complaint charging OMAR DAMACIO RUIZ-PENALOZA, 30, with possession with intent to distribute more than 110 pounds of methamphetamine. RUIZ-PENALOZA made his initial appearance today, before Magistrate Judge David T. Schultz, in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. RUIZ-PENALOZA was ordered detained pending further proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Defendant faces new federal drug charges as well as allegations he violated conditions of supervised release from his 2015 conviction.
By DOL Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement today after House Democrats passed H.R. 6800, a $3 trillion socialist wish list crafted behind closed doors...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A phone line will be in operation for the public to listen to the federal sentencing scheduled for May 27 in the Atchison Clean Air Act case, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the Department of Homeland Security’s oversight of cybersecurity at high-risk chemical facilities under the...
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: M. Speaker, I am proud to rise in support of H.R. 6800, the Heroes Act.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Ochopee, FL - An early tropical system tamped down the Moon Fish Wildfire today with over an inch of rain. This system brought some beneficial rain to southern Florida with a slight chance of rain on Saturday. The water levels in Big Cypress National Preserve are quite low due to weeks of dry weather and below average rainfall.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister today announced the formation of the Kansas Covid Fraud Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man, Michael R. McReynolds Jr., 32, pleaded guilty on Friday, before Chief United States District Judge Danny Reeves, to Hobbs Act robbery and carrying and using a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Boise, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has opened the 8th Street gate in the Boise Foothills to allow the use of all motorized vehicle on the 8th Street extension.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS -U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon sentenced, on May 14, 2020, ROBERT GAINES, age 37, of Marrero, Louisiana, to sixty (60) months’ imprisonment and four years’ supervised release after pleading guilty to a one-count superseding bill of...
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Bradenton, FL - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, De Soto National Memorial is increasing recreational access. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local...
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary Mnuchin, Commissioner Rettig, and Commissioner Saul...
By USDA Newswire | May 15, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, May 15, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the extension of three nationwide waivers, giving child nutrition program operators the flexibility they need to continue to feed children while promoting social distancing and keeping families safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement on the partisan proxy-voting proposal put forth by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Today the Trump Administration announced the details of Operation Warp Speed, a groundbreaking and aggressive effort in America’s war against the coronavirus. The project will work to dramatically shorten the development timeline for Coronavirus vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics and get them to the front lines as quickly as possible.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Roosevelt, AZ - Due to increased fire danger in Arizona, Tonto National Monument will increase fire restrictions beginning Friday, May 15, 2020. These restrictions coincide with similar restrictions going into effect on other public lands in southern Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Fayetteville man was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute a Quantity of Heroin, a Quantity of Cocaine, and 28 Grams of More of Cocaine Base (Crack); and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Quantity of Heroin, a Quantity of Cocaine, and a Quantity of Cocaine Base (Crack), and Aiding and Abetting.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: OAKLAND, Calif. - Jeremy Donagal was charged in a criminal complaint filed this morning with possession of equipment for producing counterfeit drugs as well as the manufacture and sale of counterfeit drugs in a scheme to distribute counterfeit generic alprazolam (the active ingredient in the brand-name...
