News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man has pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally possessing the firearm he used when he was shot in a rolling gun battle.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three Essex County, New Jersey, men have been charged in connection with possessing five firearms and distributing, and possessing with the intent to distribute, controlled substances in Orange, East Orange, and Newark, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By State Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Tallahassee, Florida, man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to use 17 victims’ identities (without their consent) to unlawfully submit fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits claims, totaling at least $385,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Nigerian National residing in Indianapolis, Ismaila Fafunmi, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison on Friday, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, for charges related to a money laundering operation, which laundered the proceeds of romance fraud and grant fraud schemes targeting senior citizens.
By State Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement in response to the latest congressionally-mandated report from the State Department on entities engaging in sanctionable activity related to the malign Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline project.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - A Kansas City, Missouri man, Andre Emmanuel Sanders, age 53, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 100 months in prison for Possession with Intent to Deliver Methamphetamine and Felon in Possession of a Firearm, and 60 months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Davante Harrison, a/k/a “YGG Tay," age 26, of Baltimore for federal charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and crack cocaine; possession with intent to distribute heroin, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The guilty verdict was returned at the end of a five-day federal trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal complaint filed today charges Bernard Curran and Rodrigo Santos with honest services wire fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Craig D. Fair.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - FEMA has awarded grants totaling $20,411,469 for the State of Florida to reimburse applicants for emergency response, administrative costs and repairs following Hurricane Irma in 2017.
By State Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the United Kingdom on the anniversary of Mr. Alexey Navalny’s poisoning.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A Dallas man has been sentenced to prison for an international drug trafficking operation in the Eastern District of Texas pursuant to Operation Dirty Bird, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a draft Environmental Assessment (DOE/EA-2107) that analyzes and describes the potential environmental impacts associated with proposed building demolition at the Piqua, Ohio, Decommissioned Reactor Site in Miami County.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Clinton man was sentenced to serve 720 months in federal prison for production of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Acting Special Agent in Charge Paul Brown of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Brandon Rankin, 27, Madison, Wisconsin was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 30 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Rankin pleaded guilty to this charge on May 18, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Michael Regan, 39, of Williamsville, NY, with production and possession of child pornography, and enticement of a minor. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum of life.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Lamborghini Lucas, 33, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with unlawfully manufacturing firearms. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: Mosca, CO - Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), the National Park Service (NPS), and Trout Unlimited have been working to restore Rio Grande cutthroat trout to its native waters since 2004. The current focus area for Rio Grande cutthroat trout restoration is the Sand Creek drainage in the Great Sand Dunes National Preserve, including the Upper and Lower Sand Creek Lakes as well as Sand Creek.
By State Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
Release: Over the past several days, the United States has mobilized an unprecedented, global effort through our diplomatic channels to evacuate U.S. citizens, personnel from partner nations, and at-risk Afghans from Kabul. We are working around the clock to maximize evacuations; we have facilitated the departure of approximately 13,000 people on U.S. military aircraft since August 14 and continue to ramp up operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Gulfport man was sentenced to “time served" (72 days) in prison, and one-year of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Kurt Thielhorn, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
