News from August 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the city of Huron, Ohio, to reconstruct Sawmill Parkway, a critical roadway that serves Erie County’s...
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
Release: U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman will travel to Djibouti, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates from August 15 to August 24. Special Envoy Feltman will meet with senior officials in the three countries to discuss opportunities for the United States to promote peace and support the stability and prosperity of the Horn of Africa.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Karen E. Schreier, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Md., - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging four men for a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl. The indictment was returned on Aug. 11, 2021. The defendants were arrested on a related criminal complaint on Aug. 10, 2021. Charged in the indictment are...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A Birmingham man pleaded guilty today to kidnapping and collecting ransom money, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, Federal Bureau of Investigation Johnnie Sharp, Jr., and United States Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Patrick Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Franqui Soto (44, Orlando) to seven years in federal prison for distributing child sexual abuse material. Soto was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervised release, register as a sex offender, and forfeit his smartphone.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - A Columbia, Mississippi woman pled guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: 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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. -Thomas Schindler, 69, of Wichita was sentenced to 135 months years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A federal jury found a St. Paul man guilty of arson and riot after looting, damaging, and burning businesses in downtown Minneapolis, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge for DEA Wisconsin, and Acting U.S. Attorney Timothy M. O’Shea, Western District of Wisconsin, announced that a federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin returned the following indictments of two men charged with drug trafficking crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Today, as part of a joint resolution of state and federal criminal cases, a local man was sentenced to federal prison for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, after fleeing from law enforcement officers at more than 100 miles...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: MESA, Ariz. - Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) joined the East Valley Human Trafficking Taskforce (EVHTTF) on a two-day “Buyer Reduction" or sting operation, which resulted in 18 arrests.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Minneapolis man has been arrested and indicted on federal sex trafficking charges for allegedly recruiting six minor victims to engage in commercial sex acts, announced Acting United States Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Acting U.S. Attorney William T. Stetzer announced today that Mitchell Glenn Bell, 45, of Monticello, Kentucky, was sentenced to 226 months in prison and five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Chief U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger presided over the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment today against Wes Parker McDaniel, 52, of Merced, charging him with four counts of possessing unregistered destructive devices, manufacturing destructive devices, impersonating a federal agent, being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, and malicious destruction of property by means of an explosive, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: ST. PETER, MINN., Aug. 12, 2021 - The Biden-Harris Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is making up to $500 million available in grants to help rural health care facilities, tribes and communities expand access to COVID-19 vaccines, health care services and nutrition assistance.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
Release: The United States is donating 5.5 million Pfizer vaccine doses along with ancillary kits to the 15 member countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
