News from April 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: NOAA has awarded a contract to Ahtna Infrastructure & Technologies, LLC for a project to revitalize its port facility in Ketchikan, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: One defendant allegedly committed five shootings and possessed a machine gun while participating in drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: Seattle - Cameron Shea, 25, a leader of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, pled guilty earlier today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington to federal conspiracy and hate crime charges for threatening journalists and advocates who worked to expose anti-Semitism, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced today that Kylie Reeves, 28, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer to conspiring to possess with intent...
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: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JIMMY FLORES, also known as “Cuz-o," 37, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 136 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for drug trafficking and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.- On April 7, 2021, Anthony Brett Banks, 30, formerly of Kannapolis, North Carolina, was sentenced by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tyrell McDuffie, 36, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, 28 grams or more of crack cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By State Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
Release: Poland has been a strong NATO Ally since its accession to the Alliance in 1999 and is a linchpin of Eastern Flank security. Poland is committed to burden sharing and meets its Wales commitments to spend two percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on defense and invest 20 percent of its defense budget in major equipment. The Polish government has further pledged to raise that investment to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2030.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: The pilots and passengers of three private aircraft weathered in on Denali National Park and Preserve’s Ruth Glacier over the weekend have safely returned home to Anchorage, Alaska. On the afternoon of Friday, April 2, the three pilots and two passengers, one of whom was a teenager, had landed in their small ski-equipped aircraft on the Ruth Glacier during a routine day flight, but were stranded when clouds rapidly moved in, prohibiting a safe flight out.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging the former owner of a Richmond-based assisted living facility with allegedly diverting over $800,000 in federal and state benefits that were intended to pay for the care of the facility’s residents.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Lenore Gail Worthy, age 53, of Accokeek, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to defraud the United States and to assisting in the preparation and filing of false tax returns.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: For the first time in 64 years, Denali National Park’s Muldrow Glacier, which originates high on the northeastern slope of Denali and flows north to form the McKinley River, is dramatically surging. Local pilot Chris Palms of K2 Aviation first noticed this unique geologic event during a recent overflight of the mountain. Since then, park scientists have begun a flurry of observations of this now rapidly flowing glacier.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of the City of Pittsburgh pleaded guilty in federal court to a violation of the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (commonly known as RICO), Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Khorion Williams, of Highland Park, Michigan, has admitted to a firearms charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that a Wilmington woman was sentenced today to 5 months in federal prison for defrauding the U.S. Social Security Administration (“SSA") of more than $200,000 over the past fifteen years. Chief Judge Leonard P. Stark of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware pronounced the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that William Heck, age 40, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was indicted on April 6, 2021, by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
By State Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
Release: Telephonic press briefing on the first ever West Africa Joint Operations (WAJO) regional exercise that took place March 29-31, 2021. The briefing featured Julie Cabus, Deputy Assistant Secretary and Assistant Director Training Directorate, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, and Michael C. Gonzales, Deputy...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that five men were indicted by a grand jury on multiple federal charges for fraudulently obtaining and misappropriating Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP") loan funds.
By DOJ 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 defendants who often illegally possessed firearms, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman. Law enforcement teams from FBI, DEA, Seattle Police Department, and...
