News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: Federal authorities arrested 21 individuals yesterday on federal drug trafficking charges, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- With the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day set for Saturday, April 24, Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart is urging the public to participate in the semi-annual event and remove opioids and other medicines from homes where they could be stolen or abused by family members and visitors.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: Washington - The Biden-Harris Administration today submitted to Congress the President’s priorities for fiscal year 2022 discretionary spending. The funding request invests in the core foundations of our country’s strength and advances key U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) priorities, including economic...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on President Biden’s discretionary budget request for Fiscal Year 2022...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - A Michigan man who possessed and accessed, with intent to view, child pornography involving prepubescent minors or minors under the age of 12 was sentenced today to 12 years in prison.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after President Biden released the “skinny" version of the budget for fiscal year 2022, which among other provisions will give Pell Grants to illegal aliens and allow further federal encroachment of the private-sector...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: Hot Springs, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Robert Arthur Blackstead Jr., age 56, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 216 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: Nabit, who Previously Owned a Drug Treatment Center, Paid at Least $90,000 for Commercial Sex with Women who Struggled with Addiction and Supplied at least One of the Women with Cocaine on Several Occasions.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today named a Huntington Park man in a 21-count indictment that accuses him of robbing 15 Trader Joe’s stores throughout Southern California during a three-month crime spree.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE - A federal grand jury in Anchorage returned an indictment that was unsealed this week charging two Mexican nationals and eight U.S. citizens for their roles in a drug trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Acting United States Attorney Michael A. Bennett announced today that three Louisville, Kentucky, men have been charged by a federal Grand Jury in a six-count superseding indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Riverside County woman was sentenced today to 37 months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining more than $500,000 in COVID-19-related unemployment benefits by using the stolen personal information of dozens of individuals obtained from the darknet.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss announced today that the United States filed a civil complaint against Connections Community Support Programs, Inc. as well as three of its current and former corporate officers, Catherine Devaney McKay, William Northey, and Steven Davis, in the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A federal jury deliberated for approximately two hours before returning its guilty verdicts this afternoon against Jeffrey M. West, 53, of the 1300 block of S. Third St., Mattoon, Ill., for the seven counts charged: two counts of sexual exploitation of minors; two counts of commission of the offense by a registered sex offender; two counts of receiving child pornography; and, one count of possession of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: PINEDALE, Wyo. -Bureau of Land Management High Desert District fire crews will conduct prescribed fire operations between May and July as part of a multi-year project. Fire operations will begin only when conditions are favorable for a safe and effective burn on public lands administered by the Pinedale Field Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Committee on Oversight and Reform Republican Leader James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Gene Sperling - who was recently appointed by President Biden to provide oversight of the $1.9 trillion spending bill enacted last month - regarding concerns that the State of New York may be funneling billions of federal dollars to illegal immigrants.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - On April 14th at 10: 0 AM, the House Judiciary Committee will hold the first ever markup of H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act. The legislation, which was first introduced nearly 30 years ago, establishes a commission to examine slavery and discrimination in the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: Norfolk, Virginia - Norfolk residents can get their free COVID-19 vaccine this Saturday, April 10 at the Southside STEM Academy. No appointments are necessary to get the lifesaving shot and residents will be attended on a first come, first serve basis.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: BEAUFORT, NC - The National Park Service’s Beaufort Visitor Information Center is located at 701 Front Street in Beaufort, North Carolina. Starting April 15th, 2021, the Beaufort Visitor Information Center will be open daily from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: Federal authorities arrested 21 individuals yesterday on federal drug trafficking charges, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
