News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Kerry L. Sands, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, was indicted today on heroin and fentanyl charges, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma have reached a $1.25 million agreement with defendants Rosemarie Pelfrey, Omega Enterprises LLC and Pelfrey Investment Company Inc. to resolve a Fair Housing Act lawsuit...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Dalton Kurtz, 32, an officer with the Muncie Police Department, pleaded guilty today to one count of Misprision of Felony, for concealing and failing to report a fellow officer’s inappropriate use of force.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, applauded the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for passing their bipartisan Domains Critical to Homeland...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is issuing a establishing additional requirements that take effect Aug. 16, 2021 for dogs imported into the United States for resale from countries where African swine fever (ASF) exists. The number ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Simeon Kyle Hopkins (28, Citrus Springs) today pleaded guilty to one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking and one count of possessing cocaine base with intent to distribute. Hopkins faces a minimum mandatory penalty of five years, and up to, life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former officer of the Louisville Metro Police Department pleaded guilty today to using unreasonable force against an arrestee.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season is well underway, and atmospheric and oceanic conditions remain conducive for an above-average hurricane season, according to the annual mid-season update issued by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: HOT SPRINGS, Ark.-A Hot Springs Village business owner pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of willfully failing to pay over employment taxes and one count of failing to file a tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va., - A Georgia man pleaded guilty yesterday to distributing illicit prescription drugs over the Darknet and shipping them across the country via the U.S Postal Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Mexican national was sentenced today to 22 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for production of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s California Great-Basin Region announces the selection of Jack Worsley as the Lahontan Basin Area Office Manager. The area office administers Reclamation activities over a large portion of the Great Basin, including the watersheds of Lake Tahoe, the Truckee...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Acting United States Attorney Karin Hoppmann announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Jermaine Lamar Harvard (40, Lake County) with one count of distributing fentanyl resulting in death. If convicted, Harvard faces a mandatory sentence of life in federal prison. He was arrested on August 4, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of an unregistered destructive device, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Georgia man pleaded guilty yesterday to distributing illicit prescription drugs over the Darknet and shipping them across the country via the U.S Postal Service.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- This week, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) joined CNN’s Jessica Dean on CNN Newsroom and Kate Bolduan on At This Hour to discuss the need for Congress to include transformational investments and policies in any infrastructure legislation that gets sent to the president’s desk.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm after leading police officers on a high-speed chase.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: MOBILE, AL - A Foley woman was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for her participation in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Fairfax man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for downloading images and videos depicting children as young as four years old being sexually abused, and for utilizing the Darknet to solicit and promote child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man was sentenced of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance on Aug. 2, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
