News from May 2020
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Two men have admitted to drug distribution in the Wheeling area, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Irish National Extradited to the United States from Ireland for Trafficking of Rhinoceros Horns.
By Commerce Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Peter King, and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, introduced the Postal Preservation Act
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, New Jersey, man today admitted maliciously calling in a bomb threat to a religious institution, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jose Casado, 32, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, quantities of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and crack cocaine, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By State Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Washington- Representatives Eliot L. Engel Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Michael McCaul, the Committee’s Ranking Member, today released the following statement calling on Vladimir Putin’s regime to release Paul Whelan, a U.S. citizen wrongfully imprisoned in Russia. Yesterday, the Russian government concluded a secretive, sham of a trial and announced its intention to seek a draconian 18-year prison sentence in a Russian labor camp.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Lawrence Keefe, of the Northern District of Florida,.
By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Fritch, TX - A 45-year-old Borger resident died Saturday, May 23, 2020 near Cedar Canyon within Lake Meredith National Recreation Area.
By Homeland Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a Salvadoran man Tuesday who is wanted for homicide in his home country. He was turned over to Salvadoran law enforcement authorities upon his arrival in El Salvador.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Mexican national pled guilty in federal court today to his role in a Daviess County, Missouri, marijuana-growing operation where law enforcement officers seized nearly $10 million worth of plants.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A Frankfort woman, Lesley Wade, pled guilty in federal court on Tuesday, before U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove, to money laundering and filing a materially false tax return.
By EPA Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold the Committee’s first fully remote hearing on Tuesday, June 2, at 11:30 a.m. (EDT). The hearing is entitled, “On the Front Line: How Governors are Battling the COVID-19 Pandemic."
By DOE Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement after President Donald Trump’s announcement on lowering insulin costs for seniors.
By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Kula, Maui - The National Park Service (NPS) is following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, as it begins to increase recreational access and services. The NPS is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and is using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, Missouri - Deandre Moore, 26, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 186 months in prison for six armed carjackings. Moore appeared today before U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Korey Stewart, aka “Skip," “Dash," “Slim," “Gutta," and “Corey Adams," 37 years old, was sentenced last week to 110 months of imprisonment for conspiring to distribute heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and cocaine base, and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Georgia couple has been indicted on multiple child pornography charges in a virtual U.S. District Court grand jury session necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Homeland Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Imagine that in the course of an investigation, law enforcement officers suspect the presence of a clandestine laboratory processing illicit drugs. Upon the execution of a search warrant, these officers discover a clandestine laboratory hidden in the basement, full of bottles and containers with chemicals.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Marcus Watkins, 35, of Hinesburg, Vermont, was arrested yesterday and charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, a Schedule II controlled substance. Watkins appeared today by telephone before the Honorable John M. Conroy, United States Magistrate Judge, and was ordered detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser, Eastern District of Louisiana, announced today the award of Department of Justice grants to Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office ($161,045), Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office ($76,357), Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office ($37,639), the City of Kenner, Louisiana ($43,809) and the City of Hammond, Louisiana ($61,855) to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19.
