News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Daniel Romero-Mancia, 25, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to the crime of willfully making a false material statement to a federal officer, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca, Jack Stanton, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans and Michael J. Harrison, Acting Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol’s New Orleans Sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment today against Calvin James Smith, 33, and Marques Julius Johnson, 39, of Sacramento, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: I. Illegal Reentry After Deportation (8 U.S.C. 1326).
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a fully remote legislative hearing on Thursday, April 15, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) on several environmental...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that LUIS COLLAZO-RIVERA, 40, of Caguas, Puerto Rico, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 75 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine from Puerto Rico to Connecticut through the U.S. Mail.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
Release: Low-Carbon Biofuels Could Power Airplanes, Ships, and Other Heavy-Duty Vehicles
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: CINCINNATI, OH - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released operational statistics for March 2021 regarding the crisis at our southern border and the massive influx of unlawful migrants and unaccompanied children making the dangerous journey to our border...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and House Judiciary Committee Republican Leader Jim Jordan (R-OH) are leading legislation that will continue to keep fentanyl-related substances in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. In addition, the Leaders are calling on Democrats in Congress to work with Republicans to make this move permanent.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a fully remote legislative hearing on Thursday, April 15, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) on several environmental...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Springfield Armory National Historic Site is pleased to be hosting two five-month, paid, Historic Preservation trainees this summer through the National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center Traditional Trades Apprenticeship Program (TTAP) One intern will work in the field of cultural landscape...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Monday, Simon Calvin Simms Hiatt, 46, of Parker, AZ was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 108 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release. Hiatt previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
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 $1.5 million grant to the city of Ames, Iowa, to construct critical water infrastructure to allow for development and business growth at the Prairie View Industrial Center. This EDA project, to be matched with $3.8 million in local funds, is expected to generate $30 million in private investment.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
Release: New ARPA-E Funding Will Create Cleaner Solutions for the Oil, Gas, and Coal Sectors
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell today sentenced Irving Cepeda-Chico (39, Kissimmee) to 14 years in federal prison for 12 counts of distribution of controlled substances and 1 count of conspiracy to distribute such substances. Cepeda-Chico had pleaded guilty on Nov. 20, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Discharged a Firearm During the 2019 Robbery of a Clinton Pharmacy While Demanding Oxycodone and Money from the Register.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Federal Partners Vow “All Hands On Deck" to Fight Violent Crime in Philadelphia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - David Litman, 41, of the village of Foosland, Ill., has been ordered to report to federal prison on May 18, 2021, to begin serving a two-year sentence for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud in connection with a real estate short-sale scheme. Following the March 10, 2021, sentencing...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $749,810 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the University Corporation at Monterey Bay, Seaside, California, to provide technical assistance to coronavirus-impacted small businesses and support the economic resiliency of the Monterey Bay region. This EDA grant is expected to create 35 jobs, retain 200 jobs, and generate $3 million in private investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Wendy W. Berger has sentenced Edgar John Dawson, Jr. (47, Cocoa) to 50 years in federal prison for five counts of using a minor child to produce sexual abuse videos and two counts of distributing child sex abuse images over the internet. Dawson was also ordered to register as a sex offender and to forfeit his phone. He has been in custody since his arrest on May 7, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jose Luis Vazques, age 39, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday to 87 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani for drug trafficking and firearms charges.
