News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - A 30-year-old Houston bounty hunter has been ordered to prison following his convictions of sex trafficking, conspiracy to commit visa fraud and international money laundering, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation and the Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority announced a public teleconference negotiation session for the Central Valley Project Corning and Tehama-Colusa canals, Red Bluff and Corning pumping plants, and associated works in Northern California on May 4.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today highlighted the growing support for the Republican infrastructure framework unveiled last week by Senators Capito, Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 47-year-old resident of Guanajuato, Mexico, has entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute meth, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK CITY - Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Raymond P. Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security...
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
Release: Today, the United States is imposing sanctions on one current and one former Guatemalan government official-Gustavo Adolfo Alejos Cambara and Felipe Alejos Lorenzana, respectively-for their role in corruption in Guatemala.
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
Release: SANTA BARBARA, California - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is hiring Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) to work at Santa Barbara Airport (SBA). There are 20 positions currently available at SBA. Starting salary is $18.85 per hour.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: - The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that the 2020 Census shows the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2020, was 331,449,281.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Andrew Benson, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) wrote U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Commissioner, Troy Miller, regarding the negative impact the Biden Border Crisis is having on Border Patrol agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Albert "GEE GEE" Green, 25, has been sentenced to 97 months in federal prison as a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm in the furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Acting U.S. Attorney, Joseph C. Murphy, Jr., announced the verdict today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 47-year-old resident of Guanajuato, Mexico, has entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute meth, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: Today the U.S. Census Bureau released information about the quality of the 2020 Census from two methods: (1) analyses that compare the first census results to other ways of measuring the population, and (2) metrics that provide insight into the census operations.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today issued the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency's announcement that it is reconsidering the 2019 regulation known as the SAFE Vehicles Rule Part One, the rule put in place by the Trump Administration that claimed that states were preempted from setting greenhouse gas emissions standards for automobiles...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash. - Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents are asking for the public’s help to identify potential minor victims of inappropriate sexual contact and for investigative information concerning a man who volunteered at multiple local volleyball clubs from 2017 to 2021.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) loan application holds many benefits for disaster survivors who register for federal assistance. An applicant who is referred to the SBA during the initial FEMA registration process is expected to complete an application. If the person chooses...
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 DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Domestic Assault by an Habitual Offender and Child Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: WHITE PLAINS, NY - Several million dollars’ worth of opiates and other narcotics, including what is alleged to be fentanyl, was seized last week in Mount Vernon following a joint investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Drug Enforcement Task Force, New Jersey State Police and the Westchester District Attorney’s Office.
