News from August 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: DENTON, Texas - Preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) are available for review by residents and business owners in all communities and unincorporated areas of Murray County, Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Alfred David Villasenor, 38, of Chico, was sentenced Wednesday to three years and one month in prison for being a prohibited person in possession of ammunition, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Villasenor was also ordered to pay a $7,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: Seattle - A 51-year-old Seattle man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 13 years in prison for drug and gun crimes announced Acting United States Attorney Tessa M. Gorman. Clyde McKnight was convicted May 21, 2021, of possession of controlled substances with intent to distribute, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney Karin Hoppmann announces the return of an indictment charging Keaujay Hornsby, a/k/a “Plug," (26, Tampa); Kareem Spann, a/k/a “Reem," (27, Tampa); Tywon Spann, a/k/a “Weez," (25, Tampa); and Eriaus Bentley (29, Tampa). Hornsby and both Spanns have been charged...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Michael Mowry, 44, of Acton, Maine was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, IOWA - A Solon man, Christopher Allan Hay, age 49, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 30 months in prison for Drug User in Possession of Firearms and Ammunition and Possession of Unregistered Firearms. Hay was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow his prison term as well as pay $300 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Caribou man was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Drug Enforcement Administration today announced a comprehensive review of DEA’s international operations and foreign footprint, including administrative and financial support for those operations from DEA headquarters. Administrator Anne Milgram has recommended a top to bottom review of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Derrick S. McCullough (31, Keystone Heights) today pleaded guilty to escaping from a residential reentry center (halfway house) where he was completing a prior 50-month federal prison sentence. McCullough faces a maximum penalty of five additional years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded handgun in the city’s Humboldt Park neighborhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Jamal Harrison has been charged with wire fraud in a six-count federal indictment for extorting a criminal defendant who had been charged in a federal case in Atlanta. During the scheme, Harrison falsely claimed that the federal prosecutor would dismiss the charges in the defendant's case for $15,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss announced today that Connections Community Support Programs, Inc. (“CCSP") has agreed to the entry of consent judgments totaling over $15,300,000 to resolve two lawsuits brought by the federal government alleging health care fraud arising under the federal...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: Today the U.S. Census Bureau released the Franchise Statistics Report from the 2017 Economic Census. The report includes national-level data for nearly 300 industries like fast-food restaurants that have franchises as well as other industries in 15 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) sectors published in the economic census.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court for unlawfully prescribing and distributing controlled substances, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A teacher at Foxborough High School was arrested today and charged in connection with possession of child pornography and receiving child pornography over the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Marilyn Cook (also known as Marilyn Powell and Marilyn Sunset), 58, of Alcoa, Tennessee, was sentenced today to two years and five months in prison for filing false claims for unclaimed property held by the California State Controller’s Office Unclaimed Property Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dante Dolson, 52, of Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 97 months imprisonment and supervised release for a term of two years by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: Homestead National Historical Park to Host Living History Demonstrations.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County man was arrested today on four counts of tax evasion, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - James William Palmer was arrested yesterday and arraigned today on charges of engaging in the unlicensed manufacturing and dealing of firearms and of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Patrick T. Gorman.
