News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 43-year-old South Texas man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession with intent to distribute a large amount of narcotics, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA) has awarded a $13 million subcontract to Fowler General Construction to build a new Hanford Site water treatment facility that will automate water services, and support treating tank waste and completing risk-reduction cleanup projects across the site.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Second Degree Murder and Using and Carrying a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Sherrod Johnson, a/k/a “Rod," age 27, of Troy, New York, was indicted last week on multiple drug and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio, William Badberg, 44-year-old owner of Bullit Proof Arms in Schertz, TX, stands charged with a fraudulent scheme involving the sale of firearms on the internet, announced U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer; Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, San Antonio; and, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Fred Milanowski, Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A Chico man was sentenced to three years and six months in prison for burglaries of post offices in Butte, Glenn, Shasta, Sutter and Tehama counties, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. ― EM recently declared major design work complete for Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) facilities at the Hanford Site ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Eric Schneider, a 60-year-old Virginia resident and former Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of Communications Resource, Inc. (CRI), pled guilty on November 6, 2020 in federal court in the District of Columbia to one count of conspiracy to violate the Procurement Integrity Act and one count of obstruction of justice.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Hopkins, SC - Congaree National Park and Friends of Congaree Swamp will be co-hosting the Smithsonian traveling exhibit Water/Ways from Friday, Nov. 13, 2020 through Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. According to the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street “Water/Ways exhibition dives into water-an essential component of life on our planet, environmentally, culturally, and historically.".
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Shaun Nebblett, also known as “Shaun Wyatt" and “Dapper," will be arraigned this afternoon in federal court in Brooklyn before United States Magistrate Judge Sanket J. Bulsara on an indictment charging him with conspiracy to import cocaine and other narcotics offenses. Nebblett was extradited to the United States from Guyana on November 6, 2020, the first from Guyana facing federal charges in the United States since 1999.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A 34-year-old resident of Sweeny has been ordered to federal prison after admitting he employed sexually-oriented websites advertising three minors as young as 15 for commercial sex, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Pennsylvania woman today admitted participating in a conspiracy to receive bribes and kickbacks in exchange for ordering genetic tests, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Stafford man and Herndon woman pleaded guilty today to charges arising from the recovery of a firearm and cocaine base, commonly known as crack cocaine, during the execution of a search warrant in Prince William County.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Martinsburg, West Virginia, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of wire fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Grand County, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) are partnering to reduce wildfire risk and improve forest health, wildlife habitat and public safety on the slopes of Sheep Mountain in Grand County. Mechanical logging work on this project is scheduled to begin immediately and be completed by Dec. 15, 2023. Hand treatments and pile burning are expected to follow logging activities in this multi-year project.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: It is easy to understand the importance of our “critical infrastructure," such as telecommunications, energy, transportation, and emergency services, but what’s often overlooked are the underlying technologies that enable them. One such technology is Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) services, a national critical function powering many of the critical infrastructure sectors that enable modern society.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Nicholas Rockwell, age 26, of Hurley, New York, pled guilty today to distributing, receiving, and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Calvin Claxton, a/k/a Cal, age 41, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to his participation in a drug distribution conspiracy operating in the Edmondson Village neighborhood in southwest Baltimore. The drug trafficking organization (“DTO") of which Claxton was a member sold heroin and cocaine on a daily basis in street-level quantities.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: First Extradition of a Defendant from Guyana Facing Federal Charges in the United States Since 1999.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Sean Anthony Nalle, 35, of Parkersburg, was sentenced to six months in federal prison for walking away from a halfway house earlier this year. The six month term of imprisonment is to run consecutively to Nalle’s 2015 federal sentence.
