News from September 2020
By State Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a full committee hearing on U.S. policy in a changing Middle East, with witness testimony from Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale and U.S. Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela Elliott Abrams.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Energy (DOE) has completed the first application of its science-based approach to managing reprocessing waste with the safe and successful shipment of a small quantity of liquid waste from the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: The defendant was subject to a PFA order at the time of the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Timothy Daniel Raybould made an initial appearance today in federal court on a criminal complaint charging him with unlawful possession of ammunition, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of California David L. Anderson and United States Postal Inspection Service Postal Inspector in Charge Rafael E. Nuñez. Raybould made his initial appearance in federal court today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Virginia K. DeMarchi.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Final dealer convicted by a jury after three days of trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - In July 2018, the Department of Justice announced the launch of Operation Synthetic Opioid Surge (S.O.S), a program aimed at reducing the supply of synthetic opioids in 10 high impact areas, including the Northern District of West Virginia, and identifying wholesale distribution networks and international and domestic suppliers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for fentanyl distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: ROME, GA- Irfanali Momin and Shiba I. Momin a/k/a Saguftabanu Momin, husband and wife, have each pleaded guilty to naturalization fraud, and conspiring to illegally import misbranded drug products from China, receive misbranded drugs that had moved in interstate commerce, and to trafficking of counterfeit goods.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming raised more than $1.3 million in its Sept. 24, 2020, quarterly oil and gas lease sale, facilitating economic opportunities and infrastructure investment in local communities. The BLM received bids on all eight parcels offered, totaling about 4,427 acres.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Also Prohibited from Possessing Guns Because He Had Previously Been Convicted of Domestic Violence.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) has awarded $192,520 in Phase 1 funding to Kynamics of Mountain View, CA, to build a portable, standalone system for language translation capabilities under SVIP’s Language Translator solicitation.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Omaha, Neb. - National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Herbert C. Frost announced the selection of Leigh Welling as the new superintendent of Wind Cave National Park located in Hot Springs, South Dakota. Welling will begin serving in the position November 8, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - A Wilmington, NC man was sentenced today to 132 months in prison for the distribution of a quantity of cocaine base (crack) and possession with the intent to distribute more than twenty-eight (28) grams of cocaine base (crack).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Landlord allegedly sought illegal side payments from a Section 8 tenant.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: In Knox County, Tennessee, one S.O.S. investigation resulted in the indictment of 29 defendants in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving the seizure of over 5.5 kilograms of heroin and fentanyl and 11 firearms.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on the U.S. Forest Service’s newly announced upcoming publication of a Final Environmental Impact Statement that will exempt the Tongass National Forest in Alaska from the 2001 Roadless Rule.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is increasing access. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 38-year-old Houston woman has been taken into custody on allegations of embezzling thousands from her previous employer, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - On Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, at the request of Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis, the Office of the United States Attorney along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Scranton Resident Office, began an inquiry into reports of potential issues with a small number of mail-in ballots at the Luzerne County Board of Elections.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - Chief U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow has sentenced Gates L. Sisk, 20, and Davia A. Barbee, 20, both of Indianapolis, to 13 years in prison for the Sept. 10, 2018, armed robbery of Walgreens Pharmacy in Galesburg, Ill. Both Sisk and Barbee were sentenced on Sept. 23, 2020. Both have remained in law enforcement custody since they were arrested hours after the robbery on Sept. 10, 2018.
