News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - An 18-year-old Brownsville man has been ordered to federal prison for possessing nearly 10,000 of images and videos of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Red Lake man was sentenced today to 48 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possessing an unregistered firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that Luke Newton Mowrer, age 31, of Mobridge, South Dakota, was found guilty of Assault by Striking, Beating, or Wounding as a result of a two-day federal jury trial in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He was acquitted of two counts of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and one count of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A South Los Angeles man whose fireworks were detonated by police, leading to a massive explosion that destroyed a specially designed containment vehicle, damaged a neighborhood and injured 17 people, pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Sharon Jones, 44, of Philadelphia, PA, was arrested and charged by Indictment with one count of dealing in firearms without a license and six counts of making false statements to a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) during the purchase of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Aug. 30, 2021, United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger sentenced Melissa Deann Authier, age 36, of rural Pleasantville, to 33 months in prison for Wire Fraud announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Authier was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow her prison term and pay Jolly Farms, Inc. $550,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: Tacoma, Wash., - Two Tacoma residents were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to lengthy prison terms for gun and drug-distribution crimes. Tyson Lloyd, 33, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and Cole Hornbeck, 25, was sentenced to 6 years in prison. Both defendants conspired to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that his office has reached a $21.25 million cooperation agreement with Westinghouse Electric Company, amidst the ongoing investigation of criminal misconduct surrounding the failed construction of two new nuclear units at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: Saturday, September 4 through Monday, September 6, 2021, Fort Scott National Historic Site will take you on an exploration of the sights, sounds, and smells behind the Labors creating the “Crack Post on the Frontier". Labor Day weekend activities include artillery demonstrations, historic cooking, bread...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney Rhett DeHart announced today that James Thomas Bramlette, 42, of Salt Lake City, Utah, pled guilty to Wire Fraud and Tax Fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343 and 26 U.S. § 7202, before United States District Judge Richard M. Gergel. Bramlette will be sentenced at a later date.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: WORLAND, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Worland Field Office will partner with the community twice in September to celebrate National Public Lands Day. This year-the BLM’s 75th anniversary-we invite everyone to give back to public lands by participating in one of these shared conservation and restoration projects.
By State Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of State is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of People’s Republic of China (PRC) national Zhang Jian, a key leader of the transnational criminal Zhang Drug Trafficking Organization. This reward is also offered for information leading to his location.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: Large amount of methamphetamine plus firearms results in 10-year and 6-year prison sentences.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to the Biden Administration announcing the creation of the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of Louisiana to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by Hurricane Ida beginning on Aug. 26, 2021 and continuing.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. James E. Clyburn, Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, sent letters to the governors of five states-Wyoming, Alabama, South Dakota, Arkansas, and North Dakota-urging immediate action to speed up the distribution of emergency rental assistance funds.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Ro Khanna, Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Environment, and Rep. Ilhan Omar led more than 50 Democrats in sending a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer requesting that they include the repeal of fossil fuel subsidies in the Build Back Better Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - Today, Acting United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart announced that a Florida man has been sentenced for stealing guns from a licensed firearms dealer in Dothan, Alabama. On Aug. 24, 2021, 30-year-old Tevin Michael Coffman was sentenced to 72 months in prison for unlawfully taking...
By State Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
Release: U.S. Special Representative for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Ambassador Sung Kim met on August 30 with Republic of Korea (ROK) Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs Noh Kyu-duk. The two sides discussed the situation on the Korean Peninsula and prospects for humanitarian cooperation and reaffirmed the importance of the U.S.-ROK alliance. They decided to continue close coordination on the way forward.
By State Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after the last U.S. military plane left Kabul, Afghanistan:
