News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, KY. - Two western Kentucky men, Stacy Scott Phelps and James Michael Harper, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud in connection with their operation of Phoenix Development Drilling Corporation, an oil and gas drilling business, announced Acting United States Attorney Michael A. Bennett.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $979,837 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the College of Micronesia, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) to support economic opportunity and food security in the FSM through implementation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett Dehart announced today that William Bernard Wright, a/k/a “Willie" Wright, a/k/a “Quentin Mitchell," 28, of Gaffney has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison, bringing resolution to federal and state criminal cases against Wright for the shooting of a South Carolina Highway Patrolman in 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - John Luther Boyles, of Parsons, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 78 months of incarceration for his role in a methamphetamine distribution operation, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Three men have been sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett and U.S. District Judge Taylor B. McNeel for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF").
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: A federal judge in El Paso sentenced 28-year-old Roberto Martinez today to 40 months imprisonment for assaulting a child on the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo reservation, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff; Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Erik P. Breitzke, El Paso Division; and Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo Tribal Police Chief Robert Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Three men have been sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett and U.S. District Judge Taylor B. McNeel for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF").
By DOL Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, urged her colleagues to support the nomination of James Kvaal to serve as Under Secretary of Education, highlighting his extensive experience-at the Department of...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A federal grand jury returned indictments in March and this month, charging three residents of Sparks, Nevada, for their alleged roles in the distribution of fentanyl, following a probe by multiple federal and local law enforcement agencies, including Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUAN LUIS MONZON MONTEROSO, also known as Edwin Galvez Lemus, 36, a citizen of Guatemala last residing in Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JAYLON JOHNSON, age 23, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana was sentenced on April 13, 2021 to thirty-three months in the Bureau of Prisons following his plea to a one-count indictment by a federal grand jury. Additionally, JOHNSON was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Hank Johnson (GA-04), Representative Mondaire Jones (NY-17), and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) introduced the Judiciary Act ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Federal Probe Of San Francisco City Hall Corruption Continues As Another Recology Executive Is Charged With Bribery.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: DENVER, CO - The National Park Service (NPS) wants to hear from the public as we prepare an interpretive plan for future programming, exhibits, and media at Manhattan Project National Historical Park (Manhattan Project NHP) that will capture a wide array of experiences and perspectives.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - The former owner of a wastewater treatment facility in Orange has been indicted by a grand jury that accused him and his company - Klean Waters, Inc. - in a scheme that discharged untreated industrial wastes into an Orange County sewer system, among other violations of federal environmental laws.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Through a Challenge Cost Share Grant from the National Park Trust, First State National Historical Park (NHP) and Stroud Water Research Center (the Stroud Center) developed an engaging youth program, called Youth Watershed Explorers, that consisted of a mix of at-home and in-park experiences. Following...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A federal grand jury has returned indictments charging three residents of Sparks, Nevada, for their alleged roles relating to the distribution of fentanyl (a deadly synthetic opioid).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: With the sentencing of Abdul ‘AR-Ab’ West, the saga of the federal case against OBH nears an end.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: MOSCA, CO- National Parks across the country celebrate National Park Week each year in April with special programs, events, social media themes, and fee-free day(s). Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, along with 422 other park units, will celebrate National Park Week from Saturday, April 17, through Sunday, April 25, 2021.
By State Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo urging tighter restrictions on the sale of chip-making tools to China. The members argue that electronic design automation...
