News from April 2021
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: 4/12/2021 - Watford City - Wintery weather conditions that developed over this weekend are a welcome sight to the firefighters that have been working the Horse Pasture Fire for the past week. The fire, currently mapped at 5,000 acres, is now 95% contained.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to Brussels, Belgium April 13-15. In Brussels, Secretary Blinken will join Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to consult with our NATO Allies and partners on a range of shared priorities. The Secretary will take this opportunity to reaffirm the U.S. commitment ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Ervinson Yazzie, 30, of Gallup, New Mexico, was charged in federal court on April 7 with receipt, possession and distribution of child pornography. Yazzie was ordered to remain in custody pending release to a halfway house.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSEPH RYAN, 57, of Trumbull, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to a federal firearm charge related to his unlawful possession and transfer of five firearms on behalf of his drug dealer.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: BOTHELL, Wash. - A Pilot Community Vaccination Center (CVC) will open in Jackson County, Oregon, on April 21 to accelerate COVID-19 vaccinations to Oregon’s historically underserved communities at high risk of infection.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Jeffrey Alden Blair was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Battaglia to 188-months in prison for supplying the fentanyl that led to the fatal overdose of 45-year old Derrick Hotchkiss, a long-time rugby player for the San Diego Old Aztecs Rugby Football Club. Through his plea agreement, Blair admitted that the fentanyl he dealt caused Hotchkiss’ death and that he knowingly sold in excess of 400 grams of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: In Del Rio this afternoon, Donald Ray Lockard admitted to stealing over $2 million from the San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Field Office.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
Release: U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking has arrived in Berlin for meetings on April 12 with the German Foreign Minister in conjunction with the visit of UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths. Special Envoy Lenderking will also meet with representatives from the permanent members of the UN Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Westerville woman was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 63 months in prison for robbery and attempted robbery.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
Release: Under Secretary for Political Affairs David Hale will travel to Beirut April 13-15 for meetings with a full range of leaders. He will underscore America’s concerns with the worsening socio-economic conditions throughout the country and the political impasse that is contributing to the deteriorating situation.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 10:00AM, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, Migration, and International Economic Policy will hold a hearing examining US foreign policy priorities toward Central America, with a focus on addressing the root...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Brooklyn, NY, businessman who admitted to arranging the manufacture of counterfeit clothing, apparel, and gear, in China and Pakistan, that was shipped to wholesalers for distribution in the United States, including to the United States military, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $15,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: Tattoo artist sold large quantiles of illegal drugs in the Indianapolis area.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) led a bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers in sending a letter to President Biden, urging him to make bold investments in U.S. semiconductor manufacturing. Reps. McCaul and Matsui are the sponsors of the CHIPS for America Act, portions of which were signed into law as part of the FY21 National Defense Authorization Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington today sentenced Elvis Harold Reyes (56, Brandon, Florida) to 20 years and 9 months in federal prison for mail fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme where he posed as an immigration attorney and filed hundreds of fraudulent asylum applications. The Court deferred consideration of victim restitution to a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON ‐ A 60-year-old Richmond man is now in custody on charges of making false statements in his scheme to defraud Medicare, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I wish the people of the Kingdom of Thailand good health and happiness on the occasion of Songkran, the Thai New Year.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: Fredericksburg, VA - On Thursday, April 15, America's National Park's, in partnership with Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, will be hosting a virtual author event with John Matteson about his new book, A Worse Place Than Hell, which illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War leading up to and after the Battle of Fredericksburg. The event will be moderated by Civil War historian and author James Oakes.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: FEMA, partnering with the state of South Carolina, Richland County, and city of Columbia, is opening a Community Vaccination Center (CVC) site at the Columbia Place Mall.
