News from August 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA announced that federal emergency aid has been made available to the state of Louisiana to supplement state and local response efforts to the emergency conditions in the areas affected by Hurricane Ida, beginning on Aug. 26 and continuing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
News Release: Sarah R. Gates Photographed Her Sexual Exploitation of a Child Under Five Years of Age.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - William Diggs, age 30, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute, possession with the intent to distribute, and the distribution of cocaine base.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Phillip Golightly, 39, of Quincy, Florida, was sentenced to 24-months in federal prison following his conviction for sexual abuse of a ward while on duty at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee. The sentence, following the defendant’s guilty plea on Oct. 16, 2020, was announced by Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
News Release: San Antonio, TX - The U.S. Marshals Service is warning the public of a telephone scam involving a fraudulent caller contacting individuals, threatening arrest and demanding payment of fines.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Prithviraj “Roger" Bhikha, a former Senior Director of Global Supplier Management of Cisco Systems, Inc. (Cisco), was sentenced to 36 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $3 million in restitution to Cisco and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service following his wire fraud and tax...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
News Release: Scranton, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the U.S. Marshals Service has extradited Angel Emilio Colon from the Dominican Republic to the U.S. Colon is a 62-year-old man, formerly of Hazleton, who is charged with sex offenses alleged to have occurred in 2002.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO - A federal jury returned a guilty verdict today convicting Jahvaris Lamoun Springfield of selling Brendan James Gallagher fentanyl pills that resulted in Gallagher’s fatal overdose on February 5, 2019. Springfield is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 14, 2021, by U.S. District Judge Larry Alan Burns.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
News Release: The Southeast Utah Group of parks will begin accepting applications for the 2022 Community Artist in the Parks (CAIP) program on Sept. 1, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., returned an indictment yesterday charging a U.S. citizen and resident of Timor Leste with seven counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to the armed robbery of a female Z-Trip driver whom he shot approximately 26 times with a rifle from the back seat.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Peter Mami, age 43, of Orange County, New York, pled guilty today to possessing and intending to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine. The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge, United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Aug. 23, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Robert E. Hood, 52, of Albuquerque pleaded guilty in federal court on Aug. 26 to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Hood is currently in custody pending sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $617,100 civil penalty against Oklahoma-based Interstate Helicopters for allegedly conducting illegal charter flights.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
Release: Washington, D.C., Aug. 27, 2021 -- The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) today announced confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) in wild white-tailed deer in Ohio. These are the first deer confirmed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide, although earlier studies have shown both that deer can be experimentally infected with the virus and that some wild deer had antibodies to the virus.
By State Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
Release: More information about Moldova is available on the Moldova Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By State Newswire | Aug 27, 2021
Release: More information about Georgia is available on the Georgia Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
