News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: BALTIMORE, Md. - Today, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Baltimore Field Division and the Baltimore Police Department announce the arrest of two suspects for the murders of 21 year-old Diamond Davis and 20 year-old Pedro Chesley that occurred on Nov. 21, 2020 in the 700 Block of Grantley Avenue.
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 State Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
Release: The United States is grateful to Bahrain for its humanitarian efforts and its gracious offer to facilitate the safe transit of U.S. citizens and evacuees. The United States greatly appreciates the Bahraini government’s support; it is emblematic of our strong and enduring partnership. We have no higher...
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 Biden Administration’s announcement today on the designation of nine Russian individuals and two Russian entities, the latter which had already been sanctioned previously, for their...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: State and Federal Partners in California and Arizona Ask Public to Help Detect and Prevent Spread of Fungus Deadly to Bats.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging four men with federal charges related to the distribution of methamphetamine sent through the U.S. mail to a mail carrier who allegedly accepted bribes to re-route the packages to drug conspirators. Charged in the indictment are...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Central Coast and Ukiah field offices are increasing fire restrictions due to high wildland fire danger. The restrictions apply to all BLM-managed public lands within the boundary of the Central Coast and Ukiah field offices, which are primarily...
By Timothy Stuckey | Aug 20, 2021
The California Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is enforcing fire restrictions on public lands in response to growing fire hazards and diminishing firefighting resources in the area, according to a press release from BLM.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - On Aug. 19, 2021, United States District Judge Eldon E. Fallon sentenced JIMMIE POWELL, age 28, to 100 months in the Bureau of Prisons for armed bank robbery, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2113(a) and 2113(d), announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, CHRISTOPHER ARANA, age 27, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana plead guilty in a one-count Indictment charging him with Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: Repeat Sex Offender Sentenced to Over 11 Years in Federal Prison for Possession of More Than 5,000 Videos of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday, DANIEL DEWAYNE COWNS, 46, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced to serve more than 21 years in federal prison for his involvement in fentanyl distribution and his possession of seven firearms-including several assault weapons-following multiple felony convictions, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Hermosa, South Dakota, man convicted on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and one count of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on Aug. 13, 2021, by Judge Karen E. Schreier, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan W. Sharp announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 11 unsealed Indictments charging 11 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: Yellowstone National Park responded to high water temperatures and unprecedented low stream flows in rivers and streams by instituting a fishing closure during the afternoon and evening (after 2 pm) as of July 24, 2021. Conditions at the time were stressful and even fatal for trout.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: BOTHELL, Wash. - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for the Schneider Springs Fire burning in Yakima County, Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - Today, Acting United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart announced that a Montgomery, Alabama banker was sentenced for disclosing the existence of a grand jury subpoena to one of his customers. On Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, Charles Gregory Hardy, Jr., 37, was sentenced to three years’ probation and fined $10,000.00 for obstructing a criminal investigation as an officer of a financial institution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Oluwatoyin Aborisade, a/k/a “Thoyinstar", a/k/a “Toyin", age 43, of Owings Mills, Maryland, for the federal charges of conspiracy to commit visa fraud, visa fraud, and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: A Bedford man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for receiving sexually explicit images of children, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
