News from April 2021

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Four individuals have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and related crimes, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Anthony Clark Davila Garza, 39, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court on April 6 to cyberstalking and destruction of government property.

By State Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
Release: “We look forward to rejuvenating our partnership based on our shared values of democracy, respect for human rights, and robust people-to-people relations.".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Mercer County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 125 months in prison for nine robberies and two attempted robberies of businesses in Trenton, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - April 27, 2021 - An Antioch, Tennessee man employed by the FBI as an electronics technician was charged today with sexual exploitation of children and receipt of child pornography. Justin D. Carroll, 38, was arrested by FBI agents this morning when he arrived to work at the Nashville FBI office. He will appear before a U.S. Magistrate Judge later today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Jonathan Leo Pope, 25, of Lewiston, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 46 months in federal prison for possession of stolen firearms, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Pope to serve three years of supervised release following his prison sentence and to pay $5,800 in restitution to the victims of his offense. Pope pleaded guilty to the charge on June 10, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- One resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a theft charge, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted distributing and conspiring with others to distribute more than 28 grams of cocaine base, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - As the EM Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) team moves closer to starting up the first of two melters inside the Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility, plant contractor Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI) has launched a website that explains the WTP commissioning process, including critical activities such as the loss-of-power test and the melter heatup process.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - One resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Salem man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with conspiring to distribute large amounts of fentanyl.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - Motorists should be aware that the Bureau of Land Management Mother Lode Field Office will be conducting a controlled burn of up to 45 acres at the Cosumnes River Preserve along U.S. Interstate 5 near the town of Galt in Sacramento County. The prescribed burn is scheduled to begin the week of May 3, but timing will depend on weather and air quality conditions.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has extended the REAL ID Act implementation deadline to May 3, 2023.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Eric Amaefuna, 65, of King of Prussia, PA, was charged by Indictment with 29 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: BOISE - Scott Koritansky, 54, of Meridian, pleaded guilty to income tax evasion, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced today. Sentencing is set for July 27, 2021 before Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye at the federal courthouse in Boise.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - On April 26, 2021 at approximately 11:00 a.m. MST, the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a satellite phone report of a boating accident on the Colorado River near Kwagunt Rapid at river mile 56. A commercial river trip requested assistance with an overturned motorboat and reported boater injuries.

By State Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
Release: “We look forward to rejuvenating our partnership based on our shared values of democracy, respect for human rights, and robust people-to-people relations.".

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) unveiled a groundbreaking plan to reshape the American economy through universal paid family and medical leave, guaranteed access to child care, and permanently extending worker and family-related refundable tax credits...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Edinburgh, Indiana, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on charges of violating federal firearms and narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: An Irving man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for helping a capital murder suspect evade capture for more than a decade, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.