News from April 2021
By Interior Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park announces flight operations for April 2021.
By State Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL - Strengthening Anti-Corruption Efforts of ASEAN and ASEAN Member States. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0007854. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance...
By State Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment today charging REGINO MORILLO-ESPINAL, 38, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, with possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
News Release: CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr., sentenced Jimmy Warf to 144 months in prison today. The 46-year-old Sikeston, Missouri, resident pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of methamphetamine in January.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Missouri man was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison without parole today for attempting to purchase a chemical weapon, capable of killing hundreds of people, on the dark web with Bitcoin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Joseph W. Cromp, Sr., age 47, of Blossvale, New York, was sentenced today to serve 57 months in federal prison for possessing two firearms and over 100 rounds of ammunition as a convicted felon, announced Acting United States Antoinette T. Bacon, John B. DeVito, Special Agent in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of 18 months to be followed by three years of supervised release on his conviction for possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo today announced that a total of $29 million would be awarded to 44 organizations as part of the Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) Scaling Pandemic Resilience Through Innovation and Technology (SPRINT) Challenge.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Special Agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), working alongside the Puerto Rico Police Department's Mayagüez Strike Force, arrested Tuesday in Mayagüez 20 gang members on drug trafficking and illegal possession of firearms charges. The arrests follow an HSI years-long investigation into a drug trafficking organization engaged in the possession and distribution of controlled substances.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - A donation by the EM Waste Isolation Pilot Plant ’s primary contractor is helping students at New Mexico State University’s Carlsbad campus prepare for an intriguing future in the technology and manufacturing sectors.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers removed a 30-year-old Mexican national and turned him over to law enforcement authorities in Mexico Monday. Pedro Ramirez Morales, aka Diego Perez Ramirez, is wanted in Mexico for homicide, making him a public safety enforcement priority for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By State Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
Release: I am announcing today the public designation of a Representative in the Paraguayan Legislature’s Lower House, Ulises Rolando Quintana Maldonado due to his involvement in significant corruption. During his time as a representative, Mr. Quintana engaged in acts that facilitated transnational organized crime, undermined the rule of law, and obstructed the public’s faith in Paraguay’s public processes.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Jawhar Baruti Jones, 41, of Charleston, was sentenced to 60 months in prison to be followed by four years of supervised release for distribution of methamphetamine. Jones pleaded guilty to the charge in January 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRIAN MELENDEZ, 32, of West Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by six years of supervised release, for cocaine distribution and ammunition possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Amber Ramos, of Hepzibah, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) have taken on the challenge to improve outdoor lighting in national parks without affecting night sky viewing, one of the fastest-growing visitor activities in parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina M. Rhett DeHart announced today that the Columbia Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has recognized Assistant United States Attorney Benjamin Garner for his work in the prosecution of nearly 100 violent street gang members of a major cocaine and crack cocaine trafficking conspiracy operating throughout South Carolina’s Midlands.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
News Release: On March 17, a peer-reviewed article in the scientific journal Geomorphology announced the results of research predicting that the Alsek River mouth is likely to shift 20 miles south from its current location in Glacier Bay National Preserve and possibly exit elsewhere from the park into the Gulf of Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Rashaad Shadee Washington, of Pleasant City, Ohio, was indicted today on drug charges, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
