News from April 2021
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: HOHENWALD, TN - The National Park Service (NPS) announces the availability for public review of the draft Engineering Evaluation/ Cost Analysis (EE/CA) report for the Meriwether Lewis Firing Range Site. The former firing range is located on the north side of the Natchez Trace Parkway near Milepost 378...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Dennis Bousquet, 31, of Lisbon, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Monday and charged with one count of production of child pornography and one count of distribution of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that STEPHEN DANIEL DEFIORE, age 36, a resident of Brandon, Florida, pleaded guilty as charged before United States District Judge Jay C. Zainey after previously being charged in a one-count Bill of Information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Basil Bey, 31, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to 19.5 years in prison, and six years of supervised release by United States District Judge Gerald A. McHugh for conspiring to distribute heroin and crack cocaine, and distributing heroin and crack cocaine, including near a playground.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 80 months in prison for possessing large quantities of heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, along with a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Lincoln man pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing firearms after being convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, Acting United States Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: International Ring Worked Sophisticated Tech Support Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nev. - To help keep visitors safe, the Lake Mead National Recreation Area is instituting seasonal closures to some areas and trails from May 15 to Sept. 30, 2021. The temporary closures are in response to serious safety concerns related to summer heat effects to visitors. Excessive heat is the #1 weather-related killer in Arizona, Nevada, and California.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Michael John Jordan (39, Jacksonville) to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison for possessing child sexual abuse images and videos and for possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon. The court also ordered Jordan to...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) joined “Fox & Friends Weekend" with Pete Hegseth to discuss MLB’s attack on Georgia’s voting bill and the decision to move the All-Star Game from Atlanta, which is hurting local small businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: Miami, Fl. - A Broward County resident was charged by indictment with forty counts of theft of government property in connection with a scheme to steal over 37,000 stamps from the United States Postal Service.
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
Release: The United States is concerned about the arrests of journalists affiliated with the group Bao Sach (Clean Journalism). Nguyen Phuoc Trung Bao, Nguyen Thanh Nha, and Doan Kien Giang were arrested on April 20 and charged with “abusing democratic freedoms" under Article 331 of the Penal Code. These arrests follow the December detention of another member of Bao Sach, Truong Chau Huu Danh, under the same charges.
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
Release: The United States commends the United Kingdom on the establishment of a Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regime, which reinforces the U.S.-UK partnership in the fight against corruption and illicit finance.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: PECOS, Texas - A Colorado man was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas to 60 years in prison following a child pornography conviction.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on the 2020 Census’ apportionment population count results that will determine each state’s representation in the U.S. House of Representatives...
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
Release: MR ICE: Great, thank you. Good afternoon, everybody, and thank you for joining us. I’d like to welcome you now to this call previewing Secretary Blinken’s virtual trip to Africa, which will take place tomorrow.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Matthew Berry, 42, of Eads, Tennessee has been sentenced to 220 months in federal prison for child exploitation offenses. Acting United States Attorney, Joseph C. Murphy, Jr., announced the sentence today.
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
Release: On behalf of the people of the United States, I congratulate all South Africans on the 27th anniversary of your country’s historic 1994 democratic elections.
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will embark tomorrow, April 27, on his first virtual trip to Africa, where he will visit Kenya and Nigeria and engage with young people from across the continent.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Mariposa County resident John “Jack" Welch has agreed to pay $950,000 to settle a claim by the United States against him for damages resulting from a 2016 wildfire that burned nearly 100 acres of National Forest land, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced today.
