News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: Imported fentanyl from China and produced and distributed pills that appeared to be oxycodone.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: Appomattox, Va. - Last fall, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park’s trails took heavy damage in multiple flooding incidents. This summer, the park hosted an Appalachian Conservation Corps Trail Repair Crew (ACC) to restore approximately one-half mile of the Southside Connector Trail. This...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), and Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Ed Markey (D-MA) have introduced the Food Labeling Modernization Act of 2021 in their respective...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Alante Martel Nelson, of Detroit, Michigan, was indicted today on drug and firearms charges, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida -- A Texas man pled guilty today to knowingly and willfully making a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement and representation to Special Agents of the United States Fish & Wildlife Service during a criminal investigation into international trafficking of primates into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that SALLY SPINOSA pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to one count of theft of public money related to her false application for benefits related to the attack on New York on Sept. 11, 2001. SPINOSA pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer.
By State Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican has released the following statement on President Biden’s announcement of a Priority 2 (P-2) program for a select group of Afghans under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). This allows eligible Afghans to apply for refugee status...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: Lake Powell visitors are advised that due to low lake levels, the Halls Crossing pumpout station will close for the season at 5 p.m. on Friday, August 6, 2021. The Halls Crossing Marina is accessed via Utah Highway 276, Lake Powell, Utah.
By State Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - The Honorable Sarah S. Vance sentenced ALLEN ROBERTSON, age 32, and TARON BROWN, age 24, both of New Orleans, Louisiana, for violating the Federal Controlled Substances Act, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. ROBERTSON was sentenced for the violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(B), 846 and BROWN was sentenced for the violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(C).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Lee Antonio Dunlap a.k.a Ra El Bey, 40, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. to spend 60 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: SEATTLE - A Tacoma couple who had large quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine and MDMA in their home were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma for being armed drug traffickers. Jaymes Arthur Gallagher, 34, was sentenced to 7 years in prison and Brittany Nicole Chipman, 28, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: Concord, NH - Monday night, last week’s U.S. Marshals “Fugitive of the Week," Shawn Hartford was arrested by the Somersworth Police Department after fleeing on foot from law enforcement in a homeless encampment. Additionally, this morning, the U.S. Marshals - NH Joint Fugitive Task Force was able to locate and arrest this week’s “Fugitive of the Week," Jeffry Robtoy near a business on Front Street in Manchester, NH.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: LAKEWOOD, NJ - A Central New Jersey medical facility and temporary staffing agency failed to ensure the safety and health of nurses giving flu shots and testing potentially infectious patients for the coronavirus earlier this year, a U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation has found.
By State Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
Release: The United States has provided more than 23 million vaccine doses and over $158 million in emergency health and humanitarian assistance to ASEAN members to fight COVID-19 and is committed to a comprehensive set of actions towards ending the global pandemic in 2022. These include vaccinating some of the...
By State Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, continues to call on President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats to abandon their reckless tax and spending spree that leaves hardworking family farmers and ranchers to foot the bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - EDMOND ARZATE, age 29, a resident of Houston, Texas, was sentenced to one year of probation by U.S. District Judge Jay C. Zainey after pleading guilty to a superseding bill of information charging him with making a false statement to a Special Agent of Homeland Security Investigations in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001 announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: LOUISVILLE, KY - A federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, returned an indictment today charging a Louisville man with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm issued the following statement today on President Biden’s nomination of Ms. Corey Hinderstein for Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)...
