News from April 2021

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Cleveland, Ohio man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime. James Lavan, 45, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two individuals associated with the Oath Keepers, a large but loosely organized collection of individuals who explicitly focus on the recruitment of current and former military, law enforcement and first responder personnel, were indicted yesterday in federal court in the District of Columbia for conspiring to obstruct Congress, among other charges. James and Minuta are the 11th and 12th defendants to be charged in this case.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal drug laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas announced that Trent Guida, age 37, of Springdale Arkansas was sentenced today to 110 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Felon in Possession of a Firearm. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing today in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: A man previously convicted in state court of a 2005 triple homicide appeared by video conference at a preliminary hearing today in federal court, said Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area is hosting the 21st annual Spring Planting and Music Festival on Saturday, April 24, 2021. Starting at 9:30 AM (ET) a diverse range of the region’s most talented live music acts are currently scheduled to perform. Musical genres represented are to include bluegrass, traditional Appalachian, singer-songwriter, Americana and a flute circle.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: Investors lost over $1,500,000, Securities and Exchange Commission involved.

By Homeland Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will be participating in the Albany Job Fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 21, at the Holiday Inn Express and Conference Center in Latham, N.Y.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man who reportedly was involved in a fatal shootout between two groups outside a downtown bar was sentenced in federal court today for drug trafficking and illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - Deputy United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen announced that Bristol-Myers Squibb (“BMS") has agreed to pay the United States and participating states a total of $75 Million, plus interest, to resolve allegations that it knowingly underpaid rebates owed under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program. Of that amount, BMS will pay approximately $41 million, plus interest, to the United States, and the remainder to states participating in the settlement.

By Homeland Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - In recognition of National Supply Chain Integrity Month, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is partnering with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Department of Defense, and other government and industry partners to promote a call to action for a unified effort by organizations across the country to strengthen global supply chains.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Katherine Emma Ross, 29, formerly of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a D.C. law firm. The guilty plea was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Matthew S. Miller, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Secret Service’s Washington Field Office, and Metropolitan Police Department Acting Chief Robert J. Contee III.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Montell Keith, 23, of St. Louis, Missouri, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Keith appeared, today, before United States District Court Judge Stephen R. Clark.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: A 46-year-old Dallas man was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison of a gun crime, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Members of the Los Angeles Strike Force this morning arrested eight defendants named in a federal grand jury indictment that alleges a drug trafficking organization operating in Los Angeles and Riverside counties distributed large quantities of methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl and other narcotics across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: PABLO - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Montana, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) of the Flathead Indian Reservation and the FBI today announced the completion of the nation’s first Tribal Community Response Plan (TCRP) as part of a pilot project to address cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Christian Michael Stutes, 25, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of receipt and distribution of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 78 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Wisconsin Emergency Management (WEM) announced today that $3,411,680 in federal funding has been made available to Dane County for costs related to the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic under the federal disaster declaration of April 4, 2020.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Tyler C. King, age 32, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for falsifying evidence and obstructing justice at his November 2019 jury trial.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2021
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management invites the public to a series of virtual public information meetings in preparation of a Northwest California Integrated Resource Management Plan. People who want to get involved in developing a plan to manage Northwest California public lands can get more information and share ideas.