News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - Today, Brian Bravo, 46, of Pembroke Pines, Florida a former procurement director at Broward Health, was sentenced to 42 months in prison and to pay a forfeiture money judgment of $427,000. On June 1, 2021, Bravo pled guilty in federal district court in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to a federal conspiracy charge, admitting that he accepted kickbacks from vendors and a consultant in exchange for awarding them lucrative government contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jesse David Tolson, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 150 months of incarceration for a drug charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: Amarillo, TX - An Amarillo man has been sentenced to 35 years and five months in federal prison for gun and drug crimes, announced today by Eduardo A. Chavez, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Dallas Field Division, which is responsible for the Amarillo area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DERRICK STOKES, 29, of Middletown, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing cocaine and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A former employee of the United States Postal Service was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for stealing mail containing medication intended for United States Veterans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: Distributed 98 Kilos of Meth, Illegally Possessed 23 Firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: VAN BUREN, Mo. - This past Fourth of July, the National Park Service (NPS) in Missouri and Arkansas partnered with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Region 7 (NHTSA) and local law enforcement to emphasize the importance of driving sober and saving lives on America’s roads by participating in the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over impaired-driving awareness campaign.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Eddie Sanchez, (43), of Loving, New Mexico, made an initial appearance in federal court on Aug. 10 on charges of kidnapping, transporting an illegal alien, and harboring an illegal alien. Sanchez will remain in custody pending a detention hearing scheduled for Aug. 13.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: RAPID CITY, SD ‒ Four days before Christmas in 2020, an excavation company’s owner was fixing an underground sewer line in Rapid City when the trench around him collapsed; his life ended under thousands of pounds of dirt.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member David Rouzer (R-NC) today led a coalition of 36 Republicans to call out the Biden Administration’s plan to arbitrarily discriminate against certain Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) projects related to fossil fuels.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: Staff and volunteers will bring Fort Larned alive for one last time this summer over Labor Day Weekend. Come out to experience the sights, sounds and smells of a working frontier fort. Staff and volunteers dressed in period clothing will bring back the days when Fort Larned was an active army post. Visit with soldiers in the Barracks, ladies on Officers’ Row, and watch the blacksmith use fire and an anvil to forge iron into everyday objects.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK - Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Humberto Baez, a produce importer based in Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Judge Allyne R. Ross to 13 years’ imprisonment for conspiring to import and distribute cocaine, and for possessing with intent to distribute cocaine. Baez was convicted by a jury in February 2019 following a two-week trial before the late United States District Judge Jack B. Weinstein.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: MOOSE, WY-Erika Jostad has been selected as Grand Teton National Park Chief Ranger and will begin her new duties in late August. Jostad is currently the chief ranger at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. She has over 25 years with the National Park Service.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass-On Aug. 11, 2021 at approximately 8:30 pm, a coyote bit a small child on North Herring Cove Beach within Cape Cod National Seashore. The child was taken to Cape Cod Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Park rangers destroyed the coyote responsible and will attempt to locate the body of the animal this morning so it can be tested for rabies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment today against Aldo David Alcaraz, 27, of Long Beach, charging him with production and possession of child pornography, attempted coercion and enticement of a minor, and attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: BISHOP, Calif. - Due to ongoing drought and increasing wildland fire danger especially at lower elevations, the Bureau of Land Management is prohibiting campfires, barbecues and open fires on all public lands, including developed campgrounds, in the Eastern Sierra Region managed by the Bishop Field Office. The seasonal fire order goes into effect Friday, Aug. 13, until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: Law Enforcement Recovered a Handgun and Drug Paraphernalia from White’s Residence; White Later Attempted to Run from the Police While Armed with another Firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: Media Relations. Parks Canada Agency. 855-862-1812. pc.medias-media.pc@canada.ca. Gina Kerzman. Public Affairs Officer, Glacier National Park. 406-888-5838. e-mail us.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
