News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: A Dallas man has been found guilty of sex trafficking a 14-year-old minor and an adult victim, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in San Juan, Puerto Rico, returned a three-count indictment charging Jordany Rafael Laboy García, Christian Yamaurie Rivera Otero and Anthony Steven Lobos Ruiz with hate crimes for assaulting a transgender woman because of her gender identity. Rivera Otero and Lobos Ruiz were also charged with obstruction of justice.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Spokane, WA - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Spokane District will extend fire restrictions on public lands administered by the BLM and the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) in eastern Washington.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: CRAIG, Colo - Today the Bureau of Land Management issued a decision on approximately 1,600 miles of open and limited travel designations for roads and trails across approximately 370,000 acres of BLM-administered land northwest of Craig in Moffat County.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - A federal jury in Gainesville has convicted Justin Lewis, 38, of Ocala, Florida of six counts of wire fraud. The guilty verdict, returned Tuesday, at the conclusion of a five-day trial, was announced by Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MICHAEL YUSKO, III, age 46, a resident of New Orleans, pleaded guilty today to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business before U.S. District Judge Barry W. Ashe.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Two Bryan County men face up to life in prison after another man’s fatal fentanyl overdose.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Jason Langhorn, a member of the “Lowrider Brims" subset of the Bloods and an associate of the “Red Stone Gorilla" subset of the Bloods, a violent criminal enterprise operating in Riverhead, New York, pleaded guilty to firearm-related murder for his role...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Acting United States Attorney Karin Hoppmann announces the arrest of Kenyari Devaughnte Brewton (26, Ocala) on a criminal complaint charging him with eight counts of knowingly causing a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) to maintain false information in its official records. Each count...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced plans to fund cost-shared research and development of natural gas demand response (NGDR) pilot programs.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is closing about 4,500 acres of BLM-managed public land to treat invasive cheatgrass on the Yarmony Mountain area on Aug. 9-11. Signs will be posted in the project area to alert visitors to the area closure and herbicide application.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Kenneth J. Lawson, 32, La Crosse, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 9 years in federal prison for armed robbery and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. This prison term will be followed by 3 years of supervised release. Lawson pled guilty to these charges on May 17, 2021.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that $10 million is available for competitive grant funding in the 2021 Specialty Crop Multi-State Program (SCMP).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: CASE NAME: United States v. Choksi, et al., Criminal Case No. 3:19-cr-160.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $2.25 million in funding to accelerate four projects aimed at mitigating the threat wildfires pose to the Nation’s electric grid. This investment is part of the Biden Administration’s efforts to help strengthen U.S. wildfire prevention, preparedness, mitigation, and response efforts - and to protect communities from wildfires and their devastating impacts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: EAST SAINT LOUIS, Ill. - Ronald Speiser, 81, and Jean Speiser, 81, of Freeburg, Illinois, pled.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Chairman Steve Cohen (D-TN) announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Monday, August 16th at 10 A.M. EDT with U.S. Assistant Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Sara Zareas, 36, of Gilford, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, fentanyl, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By State Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
Release: The Department of State has imposed visa restrictions on 50 immediate family members of Nicaraguan National Assembly representatives and Nicaraguan prosecutors and judges. As these actions demonstrate, the United States is committed to promoting broad accountability for anyone responsible for or benefiting from the Ortega-Murillo regime’s attacks on democratic institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Thursday, August 5, 2021, U.S. District Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced Kane Kileal Lamont Moore, 26, of Charlotte, to 96 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, on felon in possession of a firearm charges, announced Acting U.S. Attorney William T. Stetzer.
