News from April 2021
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced that the Greenbrier area will remain temporarily closed beyond the Greenbrier Ranger Station to all motorists and pedestrians through May 15. The repairs were expected to be complete at the by April 23, but the work has been delayed due to the availability...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Black Hawk, South Dakota, man convicted of Interference with Commerce by Robbery was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Mia Francine Sims, 53, of Meridian, Mississippi, pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation that will strengthen efforts to onshore production of personal protective equipment (PPE)...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for ISIS-inspired Bombing in New York City Subway Station in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: North Carolina Man Sentenced for COVID-19 Relief Fraud Schemes.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today introduced the Insular Area Climate Change Act. The bill - cosponsored by Vice Chair Gregorio Sablan (D-CNMI), Reps. Darren Soto (D-Fla.) and Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), and Delegates Stacey Plaskett (D-V.I.) and Michael San Nicolas (D-Guam) - seeks broad financial and technical support to prepare millions of U.S. citizens and nationals living in U.S. territories for climate change.
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Wednesday, April 21, 2021, United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose sentenced Larry Dean Weir, age 40, of Davenport, to 120 months in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute 50 Grams or More of Methamphetamine announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Weir was ordered to serve five years of supervised release to follow his prison term and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Wednesday, April 21, 2021, United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose sentenced Donovan Ryan Schmacht, age 40, of Rock Island, Illinois, to 30 months in prison for Felon in Possession of a Firearm announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Schmacht was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow his prison term as well as pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned an indictment late yesterday charging Desmond Babloo Singh, age 19, of New York, New York, for the federal charges of cyberstalking and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A local man has been charged with federal child exploitation crimes after using various social media applications, including Snapchat and TikTok, to stalk and sexually exploit a minor victim from Australia, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Scott Erik Asphaug.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot Shea, Commissioner of the...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), welcomed Jason Begger, managing director of the Wyoming Integrated Test Center, and Randy Atkins, chief executive officer of Ramaco Carbon, to the committee. Begger ...
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
Release: The Kingdom of Thailand is one of the United States’ oldest treaty partners in mainland Asia, a treaty ally since 1954, and a major non-NATO ally since 2003. The Royal Thai Armed Forces have strengthened their interoperability with U.S. forces by making significant purchases of U.S.-origin defense articles.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal grand jury in Charlotte has indicted a North Carolina man for fraudulently obtaining more than $1.5 million in COVID-19 relief guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), issued the following statement in response to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision to not hold oil and gas lease sales in the second quarter of the Calendar Year 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-After a three-day trial, a federal jury has found two Pulaski County men guilty of their involvement in a cocaine distribution conspiracy. James “Richie Rich" Richards, 52, of Wrightsville, and Isaac May, 42, of Sweet Home, were found guilty on all counts when the jury returned their verdict late Wednesday evening. United States District Judge James M. Moody, Jr., presided over the trial, and Judge Moody will sentence Richards and May at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Samuel Robert Loretta, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day of incarceration for a firearms charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announces that Matthew Cuomo, age 55, of Kansas City, Missouri, was sentenced on April 21, 2021 to three (3) years of probation following his previous guilty plea to Forgery, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 513, before the Honorable Judge Lance M. Africk.
