News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Ashley Lynn Hess, of Inwood, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 36 months of incarceration for her role in a drug conspiracy that spanned several states, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A known Hoover Criminal Gang member and resident of Portland was sentenced to federal prison today for his role in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut; Kelly D. Brady, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division; and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that MICHAEL SHERIDAN, 27, of Colchester, pleaded guilty today to illegal possession of a machinegun.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago today charged an Indiana man with federal firearm violations for allegedly conspiring to straw purchase a semi-automatic handgun that the charges allege was used to shoot two Chicago Police officers last weekend, including the fatal wounding of Officer Ella French.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: COPPER CENTER, AK - Weather throughout Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve has recently varied greatly from rainy to dry conditions. Some areas are dry and may be primed for both human and natural caused fires to ignite and spread quickly. In the past, Park officials have found multiple abandoned...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Failed to Appear for His Sentencing Hearing and then Shot a Gun Through a Door After Threatening to Kill the Person Inside.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Unlawfully Possessed Loaded Weapon After Having Pled Guilty to Other Offense of Unlawfully Possessing Firearm as a Felon.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has temporarily closed the BLM-managed public lands west of Junction City because of the rapidly expanding Monument Fire. The closures affect lands west of Canyon Creek and Junction City, north of the Trinity River and California State Route 299, east of North Fork Trinity River, and south of Barney Gulch.
By State Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - On the one-year anniversary of the fraudulent presidential election in Belarus, and in response to the Biden Administration’s announcement of a new Executive Order with expanded Belarus sanctions authorities as well as additional designations of individuals and entities in the Lukashenka regime, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has released the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Six individuals have been charged in federal court in New Hampshire with participating in a fraudulent loan scheme, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Leroy Raymond Griffin, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 120 months of incarceration for his role in a cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl distribution operation, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on National Security Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.), and Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-Mass.), the Chairman of the Subcommittee, sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III demanding information about the January 5, 2020, terrorist attack against...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of Hobbs Act robbery, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Dr. Larry Bruni Resolves Allegations of Writing Unlawful Prescriptions.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA announced today it published funding notices for two hazard mitigation grant programs for $1.16 billion to combat climate change and protect underserved communities against disaster hazards.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man arrested for shooting a teenager in a 2018 road rage incident pleaded guilty today in federal court, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By State Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, this weekend were joined by Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) in introducing a Senate resolution to honor the 70th anniversary (September ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: A former employee of a federally licensed firearms dealer who stole a handgun from his employer while at work was sentenced today to a year in federal prison.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: MONTICELLO, IL - A central Illinois grain-handling cooperative exposed workers to serious engulfment hazards when soybeans collapsed inside a Monticello bin and engulfed an employee up to their waist.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
Release: By Rich Lucas. Deputy Administrator, Office of Policy Support, Food and Nutrition Service. As directed by Congress in 2018, USDA is re-evaluating the Thrifty Food Plan (TFP)-the estimated cost of an affordable, nutritious diet. The TFP is used to calculate SNAP benefit levels. To complement the re-evaluation...
