News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that BURDETTE LYNN MESTETH, a.k.a. Burdette Lynn Seminole, 32, of Ethete, Wyoming, was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 25, 2021, for involuntary manslaughter. The Indictment alleges that on Sept. 13, 2020, in the District of Wyoming...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a markup of H.R. 51, an unconstitutional bill to grant D.C. statehood aimed at consolidating Democrats’ power in Washington. Republicans offered a dozen amendments to address major flaws within the bill, but Democrats rejected every amendment. After passage of H.R. 51, Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, ME - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced that a New York man was sentenced today in federal court for possessing cocaine base and fentanyl with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.- On April 14, 2021, Teela Moore Hendrix, 35, of Ooltewah, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: REGION 1 - The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded $46,669,040 to the Vermont Agency of Human Services for the state’s Hotel/Motel Vouchers Program for individuals who were high risk populations and required non-congregate medical sheltering.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Roy Bovee, age 34, of Jamesville, New York, pled guilty today before United States District Judge David N. Hurd to one count of distribution of child pornography, one count of transportation of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, announced Acting United...
By State Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I wish the Cambodian people a joyous Khmer New Year.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Indianapolis - Acting U.S. Attorney John Childress announced today that a federal grand jury in Indianapolis, returned a 17-count superseding indictment charging three officers and one sergeant of the Muncie Police Department with excessive force and obstruction.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: MIDLAND, Texas - A federal judge sentenced the last of six defendants who were operating a methamphetamine distribution ring throughout the Odessa area. The judge sentenced 42-year-old Jeremy David Farley, aka “Biker," to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute approximately 27 kilograms...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.- Wildlife, large and small, are getting some help from their biologist friends at the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and the National Park Service (NPS) to cross a dozen-mile stretch of State Route 118, a two-lane highway in Ventura County. Photos can be accessed here.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) joined U.S. Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.), Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), House Committee on Agriculture...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: SEATTLE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers removed a convicted murderer and public safety threat to Mexico, Tuesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - Juan Fernando Sanchez, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary (USP) Lee in Jonesville, Virginia, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to 48 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a weapon inside the prison, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) issued the following statement after an all-day, bipartisan hearing during which 63 non-committee Members submitted testimony to layout their districts’ infrastructure needs. The Members’ Day hearing comes on the heels of the release of the Biden-Harris administration’s American Jobs Plan, and ahead of the Committee’s plan to markup a surface transportation bill next month.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 49-year-old Austin man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, issued the following statement after President Joseph R. Biden announced his plan to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Christopher Hodgeman, 29, of New Ipswich, pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to possession of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced today that Garland Beardsley a/k/a Charlie Beardsley, 53, of Jamestown NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer to conspiring...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, during the markup of H.R. 1573, the Access of Counsel Act of 2021...
