News from April 2021
By USDA Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is extending deregulation to J.R. Simplot Company’s (Simplot) potato variety developed using genetic engineering, designated as Snowden Z6 (Z6 potato). The potato variety is engineered for late blight protection, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Jason Manley, 32, of Concord, pleaded guilty in federal court to attempted possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By State Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
Release: The United States notes with concern the numerous arrests of opposition political leaders related to the April 11 presidential elections. Among the democratic principles our two countries share is the presumption of innocence until proven guilty through a prompt, fair, transparent, and apolitical criminal justice process. This principle, as well as freedom of expression and assembly, is enshrined in both the Beninese and U.S. constitutions.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.)- Across the country, too many families are struggling to find quality, affordable, accessible child care. To address these challenges, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congressman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (VA-03), ...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Second Gentleman of the United States Douglas Emhoff and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced 16 additions to the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program. The new listings join nearly 700 other sites, programs, and facilities in the network that honor, preserve, and promote the history of resistance to enslavement through escape and flight. A recording of the event can be viewed via YouTube.
By State Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A graduate student at the University of Georgia was arrested today on charges that he extorted a Massachusetts woman for videos, photographs and communications of a sexual nature and cyberstalked her for more than a year and a half.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark joined the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in announcing that DEA will be conducting its 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 24. Between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., the public can dispose of their expired, unused and unwanted...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - Qwanelle Ruffin, also known as “El Patron," 28, of New Hanover County was sentenced today to 132 months in prison for: 1) Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess With Intent to Distribute One Hundred (100) Grams or More of Heroin; 2) Three Counts of Distribution of a Quantity of Heroin...
By State Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Yesterday, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), ranking member and chair of the Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, announced the introduction of a bipartisan resolution ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Desmond Ringgold, a/k/a Worm and Fool, age 32, of Baltimore, Maryland to 15 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role as a supervisor in a prolific drug trafficking organization (DTO) that operated in and around Baltimore.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan W. Sharp announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 23 unsealed Indictments charging 29 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Desmond Ringgold, a/k/a Worm and Fool, age 32, of Baltimore, Maryland to 15 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role as a supervisor in a prolific drug trafficking organization (DTO) that operated in and around Baltimore.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Illinois man was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for his role in a bank fraud scheme resulting in $1.4 million in losses, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Philip Mungin, age 58, of Bryans Road, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to forgery of a military discharge certificate and identity theft, in connection with a scheme in which Mungin provided fraudulent DD-214 discharge certificates to individuals for fraudulent military waiver applications for commercial driver’s licenses in exchange for payment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Detroit man pleaded guilty today to possessing heroin with the intent to distribute the drug in Raleigh County.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) issued the following statement after Canadian Pacific (CP) and Canadian National (CN) both made separate multi-billion dollar offers to buy Kansas City Southern (KCS), sparking a bidding war for the railroad and threatening to usher in a new round of consolidations in the rail sector, ultimately threatening jobs and affecting shipping in the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: Quincy Man Sentenced in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Cushmir McBride, 21, of Yeadon, PA, Kamar Thompson, 34, of Philadelphia, PA, and Nasser McFall, 22, of Claymont, DE, were charged by Indictment for their alleged involvement in four separate incidents in Fall 2020: ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: A Lubbock woman who received shipments of methamphetamine via mail has been sentenced to 210 months in federal prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
