News from May 2020
By Homeland Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - Following an investigation by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the FBI, four complaints were unsealed Thursday in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, variously charging 10 members and associates...
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today announced the appointment of Stan Austin as regional director of the South Atlantic-Gulf, America's most visited NPS region. He will return to the Atlanta-based operation in late June after having served two years as regional director of the NPS Lower Colorado Basin, Columbia-Pacific Northwest, California-Great Basin and Pacific Islands region.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that the leader of a methamphetamine trafficking ring was sentenced to 151 months in prison on drug charges. In addition to the prison term imposed, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger also ordered Michael McCray Sykes, 34, of Clyde, N.C., to serve five years under court supervision after he is released from prison.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Farmington, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) hosted the first of five virtual meetings regarding the recently published Farmington Mancos-Gallup Draft Resource Management Plan Amendment and associated Environmental Impact Statement (RMPA/EIS) on Thursday...
By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the launch of the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) within the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE). ARDP is designed to help domestic private industry demonstrate advanced nuclear reactors in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Marshals are offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest of a man wanted by the Maryland State Police for first degree murder.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: SAN ANGELO, Texas - The Bureau of Reclamation, in collaboration with managing partners, is finalizing a Transportation Management Plan (TMP) that officially authorizes off-road vehicle (ORV) use and designates open ORV routes on Federal lands surrounding Twin Buttes Reservoir. This is being done in response to growing concerns about public safety and unauthorized uses in the area.
By Homeland Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - An Arkansas man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison May 6 following his conviction on two counts of transportation of child pornography, and one count of accessing the internet with the intent to view child pornography. The sentencing follows an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Arkansas Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force.
By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Based on DOE EA 2113, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management issued a finding of no significant impact for the proposed grazing activities at some of its sites.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: A Waco man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for a scheme that deceived numerous victims, including several former law enforcement, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A local physician has agreed to pay the United States $450,000 to resolve allegations that he falsely signed home health certifications and plans of care in exchange for money, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Dr. Maaz Abbasi, 41, also agreed to a three-year period of exclusion from participation in any federal health care program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Wednesday, May 13, 2020, Derek Antoine Hamel, a 28-year-old man from Auburn, Alabama, was sentenced to 27 months in prison, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Following his prison sentence, Hamel will be on supervised release for three years. There is no parole in the federal system.
By US DOT Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign helps educate GA pilots about safety, including loss of control, power plant failure, and controlled flight into terrain.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JASON BOYET, age 41, a resident of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, was charged on May 13, 2020 in a one-count Bill of Information with distribution of images depicting the sexual exploitation of children, including children as young as three (3) years old, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 2252(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Gerald Fitzgerald Hunter, 54, a fugitive in a fentanyl and cocaine distribution conspiracy in St. Louis was arrested in Los Angeles this week.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that a joint team of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers arrested eight individuals who have all been charged, along with four others, in federal court for their roles in a drug trafficking organization that operated in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Daniel Logan Mock, 34, of Albuquerque, New Mexico pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque on May 13 to two counts of transmission of threatening communications in interstate commerce.
By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded the Tank Closure Contract (TCC) that will provide a variety of services at the Hanford Site in Richland, Washington, to Hanford Works Restoration, LLC, located in Lynchburg, Virginia. The Hanford Works Restoration members are BWXT Technical...
By US DOT Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) called on U.S. airlines to make better efforts to apply social distancing policies to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, after multiple reports of increasingly full commercial flights. In letters...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that United States District Court Judge Joshua D. Wolson approved a Consent Decree between the United States and Philadelphia food distributor Kawa Trading, Inc. (“Kawa"). On April 7, 2020, the United States filed a lawsuit to stop...
