News from May 2020
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- In honor of National Police Week, U.S. Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. will recognize the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement. The week will be observed Sunday, May 10, through Saturday, May 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: GREENSBORO, NC - On Monday, May 11, 2020, a judge in federal district court sentenced a High Point resident, JABRELL CRAIG SMITH, to a 138-month prison term, announced United States Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: CONORD - In honor of National Police Week, U.S. Attorney Scott W. Murray recognizes the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement. The week will be observed Sunday, May 10, through Saturday, May 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - In honor of National Police Week, U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. joins the Department of Justice and our federal, state, county, local and tribal partners in recognizing the service and sacrifice of the law enforcement community, particularly the law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty in 2019. The week will be observed Sunday, May 10 through Saturday, May 16, 2020.
By EPA Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) sent a letter to Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA) to call for a hearing on mental health.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: MOAB, UT- Following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Arches and Canyonlands national parks will be increasing recreational access starting May 29, 2020. The National Park Service (NPS) is working with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and we are using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold a meeting of the Utah Resource Advisory Council (RAC) via conference call on June 10, 2020. The meeting will take place from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The public is welcome to join the conference call.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: In honor of National Police Week, U.S. Attorney Erica H. MacDonald recognizes the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement. The week will be observed Sunday, May 10 through Saturday, May 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay" Pak will join representatives from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Georgia Secretary of State, and the AARP in a tele-town hall meeting to provide information to Georgia residents to help them identify and avoid fraudulent schemes related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19).
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Subcommittee on Trade Chairman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) led Ways and Means Committee Democrats in expressing their concerns about the Administration’s failure to establish the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (Task Force)...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas David Clay Fowlkes, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Diane Upchurch of the FBI Little Rock Field Office, announced today that Simon Saw-Teong Ang...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: Greenville, SC - The United States Marshals Service (USMS) have arrested a fugitive who failed to return from a courtroom recess during a trial for cocaine trafficking offenses on March 25, 2011. Ryan Gomez was subsequently was found guilty in absentia and received a sealed sentence from Circuit Court Judge Edward Miller. Two general sessions bench warrants were issued by the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office in regards to this case.
By DOE Newswire | May 11, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science has selected 62 graduate students from across the nation for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program’s 2019 Solicitation 2 cycle.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: During National Police Week, U.S. Attorney Christina Nolan will honor and recognize the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement. The week will be observed Sunday, May 10 through Saturday, May 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Larry Allen Lyons, of Moorefield, West Virginia, was sentenced today to five years’ probation, with the first three months incarceration, for methamphetamine distribution, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: GREENSBORO, NC - In honor of National Police Week, U.S. Attorney Matt Martin recognizes the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement. The week will be observed Sunday, May 10 through Saturday, May 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Michael Baez, 39, of Pelham, pleaded guilty in federal court to distributing cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: Ochopee, FL - Current fire behavior is minimal due to a small amount of precipitation that moved through the area yesterday. This allowed operations to continue to improve existing lines and fire breaks, clear around structures for protection and initiate potential plans to burn out the Loop Road corridor. This was done to help protect local communities and property.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Senior United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Rodolfo Genchi-Villal today to a term of imprisonment of 46 months. Genchi-Villal will serve a 5-year term of supervised release following his release from the Bureau of Prisons. There is no parole in the federal system. Genchi-Villal will be deported from the United States to Mexico after serving his prison term.
By US DOT Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has posted the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the South-Central Florida Metroplex project, the agency’s plan to modernize air traffic procedures for four major air carrier airports and 17 additional airports in the southern half of the state.
