News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 29-year-old legal permanent resident of Cuba residing in Houston has been convicted of transporting illegal aliens, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of a criminal complaint charging GANGADAI RAMPERSAUD AZIM...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Announces Support of Expanded Record Sealing, Simplification of Process.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 37-year-old Mexican citizen has been ordered to prison following his conviction of harboring aliens within the United States, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that Charles “CJ" Good Voice Elk, age 29, of Kyle, South Dakota, was found guilty of Sexual Abuse and Sexual Abuse of a Minor following a federal jury trial in Rapid City, South Dakota. The verdict was returned on April 1, 2021.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $4.45 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Forsyth County, North Carolina, to repair structural damages at Smith Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - As the result of a Northern Kentucky Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigation, a Kentucky man was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Wednesday for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - On Wednesday, a jury convicted Oscar Dillon, 47, of St. Charles County, Missouri, guilty of drug conspiracy, attempted obstruction of justice and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Phillips allegedly converted over $4.7 million of organization’s funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Dillon Merritt, 53, of Many, Louisiana, has been convicted by a federal jury in the Western District of Louisiana on firearms charges. United States District Judge Donald E. Walter presided over the trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Tanya Henry Shelby, 40, of Pelham, Alabama, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Kristi H. Johnson to bank fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Chairwoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) issued the following statement after President Biden announced several executive actions to address gun violence...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $600,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation (HTDC), Honolulu, Hawaii, to provide technical assistance to small businesses in the state’s food manufacturing sector. This EDA grant, to be matched with $150,000 in local investment, is expected to create or retain 600 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for two counts of Assault of a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces the arrest of Nicholas Anderson for First Degree Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Oscar Luis Mendoza Flores, a member of a violent drug trafficking gang that operated in the municipality of Cayey between 2008 and 2015, was sentenced by U.S District Judge Pedro A. Delgado-Hernández to a term of 360 months (30 years) in prison, announced United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, W. Stephen Muldrow.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Are you interested in historic preservation? Are 18-30 years of age and studying to be or have experience as a painter? If so, then come work with us! Springfield Armory National Historic Site is hiring a summer intern through our partners at the Student Conservation Association.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Simeon Atcitty, 38, of Shiprock, New Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court today to second degree murder in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment today charging Ethan Glover, age 49, of Baltimore, Maryland, for the federal charges of false statements to law enforcement and theft of government property. Glover joined the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) on Feb. 19, 2003. He became a federal task force officer (TFO) with the Drug Enforcement Administration in 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
