News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Brian Sperber has been indicted for defrauding personal protective equipment (“PPE") purchasers out of more than $12 million during the COVID-19 pandemic, money which Sperber then allegedly used to fund his own lifestyle, including by purchasing a multi-million-dollar waterfront mansion.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Akee Ly, age 32, of Lemoyne, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Aug. 25, 2021, to 262 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Chief Judge Matthew W. Brann for possession of firearms during a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: Nearly $5 million fraudulent lien filed in retaliation for single wage garnishment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Mary Kettle, 38, of Olean, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, butyryl fentanyl, was sentenced to serve four years’ probation by U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr.
By State Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has released the following statement following the violence at the Kabul airport and the deaths of Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, IOWA - A Davenport man, Preston Andrew Cole, age 28, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 144 months in prison for Possession of Child Pornography. Cole was ordered to serve 10 years of supervised release to follow his prison term as well as pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund and $3,000.00 in restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation released the Missouri River Headwaters Basin Study that provides options to meet the increased water demand and a change in the timing of the snowmelt runoff in the Missouri River Basin above Fort Peck Reservoir. The basin covers about 50,000 square miles and is the primary water source for 320,000 people and about 1.1 million acres of irrigated lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Mary Gonzales, 50, of Socorro, New Mexico, was sentenced on Aug. 18 to 16 years and three months in prison. On March 10, a jury returned a guilty verdict on all counts, including one count each of possession with intent to distribute 50 grams and more of methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute heroin, being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: Five Others Face Charges in Same Investigation.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: WALNUT GROVE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today that the Delta Cross Channel gates will close for maintenance between August 30 and 31. The gates control the diversion channel near Walnut Grove, about 30 miles south of Sacramento. The gates are typically operated to manage water quality and allow fresh water from the Sacramento River channel to the interior Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Joshua Sangrait, of Kansas City, Missouri pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances including more than 50 grams of actual methamphetamine. Sangrait appeared today before United States District Court Judge John A. Ross.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: The 2021 Denali Road Lottery and Military Appreciation Day have been cancelled due to the landslide at Pretty Rocks closing over half of the Denali Park Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston gang associate was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for cocaine trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: Verdict Marks Successful Conclusion to Investigation into Methamphetamine Trafficking Involving 19 Defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: A Sapulpa man was sentenced Thursday for sexually abusing a young child, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that ROYCE NEIL PERRY JR a/k/a “Chucky", 24, of Fort Washakie, Wyoming, was charged in two separate indictments by a federal grand jury on July 22, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ARTHUR JOHNSON, age 44, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty on Aug. 24, 2021 to conspiring to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin. JOHNSON is facing a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment up to a maximum...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, is launching his annual Ag Tour next week. The senator will kick off the week-long highlight of Arkansas agriculture operations on Monday in Charleston and continue with stops at farms and facilities across the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: With Bank Fraud. HAMMOND- Ricky Blaylock, age 60, of Riverside, IL and Jacqueline Blaylock Wisnewski, age 57, of Indianapolis, Indiana, were charged with bank fraud related to their theft of insurance proceeds held in trust accounts designated for the benefit of their eight-year-old grandchild. According...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Maine woman pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute, controlled substances.
