News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced James Lee Crooker, age 36, was sentenced today, after having pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted production of child pornography, each involving a different victim, on June 17, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Levi Gibbs, Jr., 51, of Lauderdale, Mississippi pled guilty today before U.S. Chief District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Michelle Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Mississippi.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of State’s Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program (TOCRP) announced a $5 million reward Tuesday for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Audias Flores Silva (Flores Silva), following multiple investigations by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and other U.S. agencies. These actions are part of a whole of government approach to combating drug trafficking and transnational organized crime globally and in Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: SALMON, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management’s Salmon Field Office will host virtual and in-person Earth Day volunteer events the week of April 19-25. The BLM has historically held an annual Earth Day cleanup on public lands near Salmon, and it’s that time again.
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: A Tulsa police officer pleaded guilty today in federal court for conspiring to make a false statement to a firearms dealer when purchasing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Marilyn Cook (aka Marilyn Powell and Marilyn Sunset), 58, of Alcoa, Tennessee, pleaded guilty today to one count of mail fraud in relation to a scheme to obtain unclaimed property held by the California State Controller’s Office Unclaimed Property Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: MONROE, La. - The Justice Department announced today that it has entered into a proposed consent decree to settle a voting rights lawsuit with the City of West Monroe, Louisiana. The Justice Department’s lawsuit, brought under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, challenges the current at-large method...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A California man was sentenced today to 24 years in prison for organizing and running a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy and commercial sex trafficking ring from his state prison cell.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dana Container, Inc., (“Dana"), headquartered in Avenel, New Jersey, pled guilty on April 14, 2021, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph F. Saporito, Jr., to willfully committing an OSHA violation that resulted in an employee’s death, as charged in a criminal Information.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A West Virginia resident has been sentenced in federal court to three years of probation, including six months of home detention, on her conviction for wire fraud, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Mark L. Flint, II, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 51 months of incarceration a firearms charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By State Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
Release: Today, the United States announced more than $95 million to support the response to the South Sudan humanitarian emergency. On behalf of the American people, this funding will provide critical protection, economic opportunity, shelter, essential healthcare, emergency food assistance, safe drinking water...
By State Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
Release: The United States strongly condemns the Houthi complex attacks against Saudi Arabia this week, including the most recent attack today in Jizan, which threatened civilian infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - A federal jury has found Ronnie Jerome Jones (39, Jacksonville) guilty of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Due to his multiple prior felony convictions, Jones qualifies for an increased penalty under the Armed Career Criminal Act. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, and up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 19, 2021.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) returned 523 pre-Hispanic archeological pieces to Mexican officials Thursday during a repatriation ceremony at the Mexican Consulate.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Former Chief Executive Officer of Publicly Traded Petrochemical Company Pleads Guilty to Foreign Bribery and Securities Law Violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Christopher Gambrill, age 44, of Windsor, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for concealing assets during a bankruptcy proceeding.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $880,640 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Region 10 League for Economic Assistance and Planning, Montrose, Colorado, to improve access to affordable, reliable, and abundant internet...
By State Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the administration’s announcement of new sanctions against Russia for the SolarWinds intrusion, reports of bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, and attempts to interfere in the 2020 U.S. elections:
