News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Akbar Akram (44, Holiday) to serve a four-year term of federal probation for trafficking in protected water monitor lizards, in violation of the Lacey Act. The court also ordered Akbar to serve 90 days’ home detention and complete 288 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that, DEWAYNE JOYNER, also known as “Weezy," 36, of Bridgeport, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 180 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two active-duty United States Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton were arrested today on a federal grand jury indictment charging one Marine and three civilians with conspiring to distribute narcotics - including oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl - to civilians and members of the United States Marine Corps, one of whom suffered a fatal drug overdose in May. The second Marine is charged in the indictment with being an accessory after the fact.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Plains, GA - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Jimmy Carter National Historic Site is increasing access and services. 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 Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged 10 immigration detainers during the past two years on an illegally present Dominican national after he was arrested on 10 separate occasions by the New York Police Department (NYPD). After each arrest, he was released into the community to reoffend with active immigration detainers in place.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh has been sentenced in federal court to 21 months’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man today admitted that he conspired to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin as part of a conspiracy responsible for distributing significant quantities of heroin and cocaine in the Bayshore area of Monmouth and Middlesex counties, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor, UCOR, are celebrating reaching next month. This is a historic achievement that will mark the first-ever cleanup of a uranium enrichment complex in the world.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A prior sex offender in Neosho, Missouri, was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Legislation to modernize the outdated National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), make infrastructure project reviews more efficient, reduce project costs, and spur America’s economic recovery has been introduced in the House by U.S. Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA), the Ranking Members of multiple House committees, and the Republican Leadership of the House.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Summary: The lightning caused Lime Fire started on the evening of September 21. No evacuations or closures. The fire is in remote, rugged terrain. Resources on the fire include 2 Single Engine Air Tankers (SEATs), 1 engine, 2 squads, smoke jumpers and a water...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - Over the summer of 2020, numerous heat records were broken, as the park experienced what may be some the hottest days ever recorded on Earth.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Following Defiance of Two EPA Administrative Orders, the City of Mount Vernon Is Now Subject to a Permanent Injunction to Remedy Discharges of Raw Sewage and Other Illicit Pollutants from Its Storm Sewer System into the Hutchinson and Bronx Rivers.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Democratic Leader, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), and 32 of their Senate Democratic colleagues introduced the Science and Transparency Over Politics (STOP) ...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC, September, 22, 2020-In a successful return-to-space mission, research study results indicate that beneficial insect-killing nematodes (small round worms) can be used in the future for natural control of insect pests when humans are growing crops in space.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Richard Leon Wilbern, 60, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted by a federal jury of the Aug. 12, 2003, armed robbery of the Xerox Federal Credit Union which resulted in the death of Raymond Batzel, was sentenced to serve life in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: * At about 11:45 a.m. Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, a ranger on a backcountry patrol in the Heart Lake area (southeast corner of Yellowstone) detected the new Hancock Fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Sparta, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for leading a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Christian County, Mo.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management will waive amenity-related fees at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area for National Public Lands Day on September 26. Other fees, such as camping and group day use, will remain in effect.
