News from November 2020
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: KINGMAN, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Kingman Field Office has issued a decision record and finding of no significant impact on the proposed mine plan from Kalamazoo Materials Inc. that would allow for expansion of an existing decorative rock quarry near the town of Chloride in Mohave County.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Air Methods Corporation has agreed to pay $825,000 to settle a civil case alleging that the company violated Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA") regulations by operating an emergency-services helicopter with severely corroded pitot tubes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough today sentenced a Rochester, Ill., man, Randall E. Tarr, to serve two years of probation with a requirement that Tarr complete mental health counseling and treatment after he pleaded guilty to leaving a voicemail message in which he threatened to shoot U.S. Congressman Rodney Davis. In addition, Tarr, 65, was ordered to pay a fine of $2,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Irving Cepeda-Chico (39, Kissimmee) today pleaded guilty to 1 count of conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl and 12 counts of distribution of heroin and fentanyl. Cepeda-Chico faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson today announced the federal indictments of 18 individuals in the Roswell, New Mexico, area on charges ranging from distribution of methamphetamine to money laundering. The charges are contained three separate indictments totaling 66 counts.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: La Junta, CO - On Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, following guidance from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and local public health authorities, Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site will be altering its operations in response to the recent upgrade to Level Red COVID-19 status for Otero County.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and its Wage and Hour Division (WHD) remind employers of their responsibility to protect worker safety and pay during the holiday season.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Kansas guide is losing his hunting privileges for three years because he violated the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - An indictment filed in U.S. District Court on Thursday charges a Pryor man suspected in the fatal shooting of a woman and wounding of a man on the Crow Indian Reservation with murder, assault and firearms crimes, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said today.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Good morning. I welcome my colleagues and our only witness today, the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Charles Rettig.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Twenty-one members of a drug trafficking organization primarily operating in Washington, Allegheny and Fayette Counties in southwestern Pennsylvania have been indicted by a federal grand jury for trafficking significant quantities of cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin and fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Former Supervisory Corrections Officer Sentenced for Repeatedly Tasing Restrained Detainee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: UTICA, NEW YORK - Guisseppi Osorio, age 27, of the Bronx, New York, pled guilty yesterday to possessing and intending to distribute a kilogram of heroin.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration announcing several new rules related to health care and drug prices.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: LEAVENWORTH, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today it is seeking public comment on the draft environmental impact statement for the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery Surface Water Intake Fish Screens and Fish Passage Project. The draft EIS is a result of scoping comments received from other agencies, interested parties and the public on possible alternatives to modernize this hatchery’s surface water intake, fish screening, fish passage and water delivery system.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 20, 2020 - The City of Jacksonville’s Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department (JaxParks), along with its partners Florida Park Service (FPS), National Park Service (NPS), North Florida Land Trust (NFLT) and Timucuan Parks Foundation (TPS), have branded the 5,600 acres...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Terrell Andre Mosely (40, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to theft of mail by a postal employee. Mosely faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison and payment of restitution to victims of his crime. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Ramon Gomez, 41, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, was sentenced on Nov. 4 in federal court to seven years and three months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey, House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth, and House Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney published funding documents obtained from the Trump Administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that show the White House...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Montana Chiropractor and his Wife Plead Guilty to Tax Evasion.
