News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. - Investigators with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Omaha Division, Lincoln Police Department (LPD), Omaha Police Department (OPD) and Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) are alerting the public to an increase in overdose deaths that began Aug. 10, from fentanyl-laced drugs. No less than eight overdose deaths and 21 overdoses have been reported between the two cities over the course of a six day span.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Heather Akins, 30, of Warner, was arrested today for making efforts to prevent the United States Marshals Service from apprehending a fugitive.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: The defendant re-sold the stolen tickets to brokers and pocketed over $1 Million.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has temporarily closed public lands in Trinity County to protect public safety from the encroaching Monument Fire. The closure is in effect until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: Local Business Also Pleads Guilty to Laundering More than $770,000 in Marijuana Proceeds through Account.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Virginia man was sentenced today to 14 years in prison for his role in an investment fraud scheme in which he and his co-conspirators stole approximately $5.7 million from victim investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Matthew Holland, 29, of Newark, NY, who was convicted of production of child pornography and possession of child pornography involving prepubescent minors, was sentenced to serve 50 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - With hopes for rain during monsoon season amid exceptional drought conditions, the EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) recently activated samplers at 183 monitoring sites that collect surface water and stormwater for potential contaminants around Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) released a draft Environmental Assessment for public comment on the use of safe tracer particles and non-toxic, inert, odorless gas as part of a scientific study on aerosol particle behavior in New York City.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management has issued a decision to reduce herd numbers within the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area to appropriate management levels. The decision allows the BLM to gather wild horses to the low end of the appropriate management level, ranging from 163 to 362, and maintain herd numbers through subsequent gathers and a variety of treatment options for fertility control over the next ten years.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
Release: NORTH CANTON, Ohio - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stopped a firearm from making its way onboard an airplane at Akron-Canton Airport (CAK) Monday.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A man who kidnapped and assaulted his ex-wife in April 2017 was sentenced today in federal court, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. -Boyd Egan, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced on Aug. 13, 2021, to nine years in federal prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for bank fraud and identity theft. Egan also was ordered to pay $160,954.54 in restitution.
By State Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Representatives Gregory W. Meeks and Michael McCaul, Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, as well as Representatives Albio Sires and Mark Green, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, Migration and International...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Petra Gomez to eight years in federal prison for conspiracy to defraud the government and tax evasion. She had pleaded guilty on Nov. 16, 2020. Gomez’s sister, Jakeline Lumucso, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Xavier Gentry, 33, Menomonie, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 54 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a loaded firearm as a convicted felon. This prison sentence will be followed by 3 years of supervised release. Gentry pleaded guilty to this charge on May 21, 2021.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Local contractor Two Rivers Terminal recently made its first delivery of materials that will be used to immobilize Hanford Site underground tank waste in glass for disposal to the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Joe Maldonado, 43, of Albuquerque, was sentenced in federal court on July 29 to 10 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute five grams and more of methamphetamine, and using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime. Maldonado pleaded guilty on Dec. 1, 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: Keeping Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel safe on the job is a crucial part of the Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) mission. Nearly every day, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents come across drones that may have been used to facilitate the movement of illicit drugs...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Robin Stephan, 43, of Manchester, was sentenced on Monday to 18 months in federal prison for possession of ammunition by a convicted felon, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
