News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
News Release: Defendant sentenced for conspiracy to fake his wife’s death at the New River Gorge.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
Release: Collins, CO, April 5, 2021-The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) invites you to watch the new video series-Feral Swine in America -which chronicles the impacts of feral swine damage on American livelihoods and ecosystems through personal stories. Listen to farmers, ranchers, land managers, conservationists, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Louis Daniel Morales a/k/a “Trouble," 29, of Reading, PA, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine by United States District Judge Edward G. Smith for...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
News Release: Benjamin Alan Carpenter, also known as “Abu Hamza," 31, was arrested on March 24, 2021, in Knoxville following the return of a federal grand jury indictment charging him with attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
News Release: HODGENVILLE - The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park will hold a special observance, “Now He Belongs to the Ages" in memory of the 156th anniversary of the assassination and passing of President Abraham Lincoln.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A North Providence woman, serving a term of federal supervised release for having conspired to use the stolen personal identity information of numerous individuals to steal nearly $400,000 from the United States Treasury, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly making false...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney W. Anders Folk today announced a federal indictment charging JEREMIAH LEE IRONROPE, 24, and KRISANNE MARIE BENJAMIN, 25, with multiple carjackings occurring across the Twin Cities. IRONROPE was also charged with using, carrying and brandishing a firearm, during and in relation...
By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement after the Biden Administration lifted sanctions on the International Criminal Court’s prosecutors.
By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
Release: The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs released the 20th Edition of To Walk the Earth in Safety, a report underscoring the accomplishments of the U.S. Conventional Weapons Destruction Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Frailin Manuel Gomez-Gil, 29, a citizen of the Dominican Republic most recently residing in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 75 months in federal prison on Friday for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy, Acing United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla -- FEMA has approved an additional $16,352,427 to reimburse Bay District Schools for emergency protective measures resulting from Hurricane Michael.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - Two 35-year-old South Florida men have pled guilty in federal district court in Ft. Lauderdale to participating in a pair of robberies that culminated in a carjacking and the murder of a Miami plumber.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Fitchburg woman was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for fraudulently receiving Social Security disability benefits, MassHealth and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Kirsten Sandy, 38, and an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Zuni, was sentenced in federal court on April 1 to 41 months in prison for assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A Carrollton, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
News Release: MESA VERDE, CO - The National Park Service and the International Dark-Sky Association are pleased to announce Mesa Verde National Park as the 100th International Dark Sky Park. This certification recognizes the exceptional quality of the park’s night skies and provides added opportunities to enhance visitor experiences through astronomy-based interpretive programming.
By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of State is partnering with the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Center for One Health Research to host the virtual international conference, One Health, One Future, April 6-11, 2021. Organizers expect this to be the largest circumpolar One Health conference held in the United States...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
News Release: Norfolk, Virginia - As vaccination efforts continue at the Community Vaccination Center located at the Military Circle Mall, FEMA reassures residents that immigration status is not a factor to receive the lifesaving COVID-19 vaccine. In accordance with Department of Homeland Security directives, FEMA and other federal partners fully support equal access to the vaccines and vaccine distribution sites for undocumented immigrants.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Dominican national living in Pawtucket faces between seven and fifty-seven years in federal prison after admitting to a federal court judge that in addition to operating a drug stash house and arranging for the sale of fentanyl on at least four occasions, he used the identity of an individual...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2021
News Release: For Possessing with Intent to Distribute Cocaine.
