News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: Faces At Least 20 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge this week sentenced a Birmingham man to 108 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Shenandoah National Park is pleased to announce the selection of Nancy Hershberger, a fiber artist, as the May Artist-in-Residence. As a former Artist-in-Residence at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Manassas National Battlefield Park, Nancy says that “artists are influenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Rastice Lee Burdex, 28, of Albuquerque, was arraigned on April 26 in federal court on an indictment for being a felon in possession of a firearm. A federal grand jury indicted Burdex on Sept. 10, 2020. Burdex will remain detained pending trial.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: EL CENTRO, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management El Centro Field Office has released a decision to move forward with water system upgrades and campsite modifications to Lark Canyon Campground and Day Use Area and Cottonwood Campground. The sites are located in McCain Valley, a remote part of eastern San Diego County, near Boulevard, Calif.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Tyson Rutledge, 48, of Bonne Terre, Missouri, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography. Rutledge appeared, today, before United States District Court Judge Audrey G. Fleissig.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed today charging a Macomb Township man in a wire fraud scheme involving the trafficking in Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Employee Purchase Control Numbers (EPCNs), announced Acting United States Attorney Saima Mohsin.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: SALEM, MA - Salem Maritime National Historic Site is one of 32 parks and park partners to receive an Open OutDoors for Kids Hybrid Learning grant from the National Park Foundation (NPF), which works in partnership with the National Park Service and the park partner community to ensure that national parks...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - Since March 3, 2021, Philadelphia’s Center City Vaccination Center (CCVC), located at the Pennsylvania Convention Center at 1101 Arch Street, has administered over 280,000 first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Sinaloa Cartel leader Ismael Zambada-Imperial, aka “Mayito Gordo," pleaded guilty in federal court today to drug trafficking charges following his extradition to the Southern District of California in December 2019. He also agreed to forfeit $5 million in drug trafficking proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - An Illinois man pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 in connection with a Massachusetts bank robbery and an Illinois bank robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: BARSTOW, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Barstow Field Office is opening the public scoping period for the development of the Amargosa Wild and Scenic River Comprehensive River Management Plan (plan ). Members of the public are invited to attend a virtual presentation on May 12, 2021 at 4 p.m. via Zoom to provide scoping comments during the 30-day period which will close on June 1, 2021.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) led a virtual forum on the Trillion Trees Act, in honor of Arbor Day. Westerman issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LIONEL GARDNER, also known as “Bleek," 36, of Newington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 96 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for narcotics distribution and gun possession offenses, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: MIDLAND, Texas - A former firefighter in Odessa, Texas, pleaded guilty Friday to possessing child pornography and using his cell phone on his employer’s network to access child pornography.
By State Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
Release: In keeping with the Department of State’s commitment to facilitate legitimate travel to the United States, Secretary Blinken decided today to apply the same set of National Interest Exceptions to India that he had previously applied to all other regional travel restrictions currently in effect as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. These Exceptions are detailed on our website here and here.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Yang Sui, age 43, of Niskayuna, New York, was sentenced today to 1 year of probation, and to pay a $5,000 fine, for stealing trade secrets.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Treveon T. Carter, 25, of Shreveport, Louisiana, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Donald E. Walter to 74 months (6 years, 2 months) in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for illegal possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Sean P. Costello of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Frederick Turner, 42, of McBee, South Carolina, was sentenced today in federal court for Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Cocaine, Possession with Intent to Distribute Cocaine, and Possession of a Firearm During a Drug Trafficking Crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Committee Republicans wrote U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo about the Biden Administration’s questionable treatment of and possible political interference in the 2020 census, which has resulted in a “strikingly different" result than was anticipated when population estimates were released in December.
