News from April 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 $2 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Mississippi Gulf Coast Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau, Biloxi, Mississippi, to develop and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: LYNCHBURG, Va. - Eric Joseph Gravette, who was convicted in September 2020 of federal drug conspiracy and weapons charges, was sentenced recently in U.S. District Court in Lynchburg to 262 months in federal prison, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar, Lynchburg Police Chief Ryan Zuidema, and Charlie Patterson, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Washington Field Division (ATF) announced today.
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 $2 million grant to the city of Thomasville, Georgia, to improve the city’s wastewater treatment plant to support current and future business needs. The EDA grant, to be matched with $2.125 million in local investment, is expected to create 260 jobs, and spur $28.8 million in private investment.
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 $1.7 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Bear Paw Development Corporation of Northern Montana, Havre, Montana, to capitalize and administer a...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: HARTFORD, CONN. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and 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 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 DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) saw a jump in drug seizures across South Dakota in 2020, as compared to 2019, with methamphetamine topping the list of most commonly seized drugs at 150 pounds. By comparison, in 2019, DEA investigators seized 29 pounds of methamphetamine, half the weight of South Dakota’s largest 2020 single seizure weighing 59 pounds.
By State Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
Release: The Burmese military regime has ignored the will of the people of Burma to restore the country’s path toward democracy and has continued to commit lethal attacks against protesters in addition to random attacks on bystanders. This includes security forces’ brutal actions on March 27 that left over 100 protestors dead. These attacks have led to over 500 deaths, including dozens of children.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: AMARILLO, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Panhandle of Texas Chapter of the Associated General Contractors in Amarillo renewed a three-year alliance designed to educate employers and employees on construction hazards.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Samuel Schiltz, 20, Waunakee, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 5 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Schiltz pleaded guilty to this charge on Jan. 26, 2021.
By EPA 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 Homeland Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: SEATTLE - Twenty-one people were arrested today on indictments and criminal complaints charging an extensive drug dealing conspiracy by those who often illegally possessed firearms. Federal, state and local law enforcement teams from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), FBI, DEA, Washington State...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Roquandre Malik Jimison, 23, of Meridian, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Henry T. Wingate to serve a total of 108 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for two robberies in Meridian, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: Indiana Dunes National Park has jobs for four teenagers this summer. The Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program is a work-learn-earn program for 15-18-year-olds. The deadline to apply is April 30, 2021.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: Lakeview, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management Lakeview Field Office is now making fuelwood-cutting permits available online through the BLM Special Forest Products Online Permit Sales Pilot Program. Online permits are available for purchase 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On April 5, 2021, Robert Goins Leeper, 52, currently of Clarksville, was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney W. Anders Folk today announced the guilty plea of MATTHEW LEE RUPERT, 28, to one count of arson. RUPERT, who was initially charged on June 1, 2020, pleaded guilty today before Judge Nancy E. Brasel in U.S. District Court. A sentencing date will be scheduled at a later time.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: Harrisburg, PA - Today, U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Kent Shand - a 27-year old Lebanon man.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: Shortenhaus was apprehended after leading police on a high-speed chase in a vehicle stolen from one of his victims.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: On Tuesday, April 6, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas spoke by video teleconference with Portugal’s Minister of Internal Administration, Eduardo Cabrita. During the conversation, Secretary Mayorkas and Minister Cabrita reaffirmed the importance of the transatlantic relationship and ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: USDA Has Deployed 1,034 Disaster, Public Health Specialists to Assist with Federal Response WASHINGTON, Apr. 7, 2021 — In January 2021, President Biden released the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness. The plan is driven by science, data, and public health to improve the effectiveness of our nation’s fight against COVID-19 and to restore trust, accountability and a sense of common purpose in our response to the pandemic.
