News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for his role in a January 2021 gunpoint robbery of a cell phone store in East Orange, New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - Two alleged members of one of the most serious transnational criminal organizations will make their initial appearances in U.S. federal court on charges of narco-terrorism and distributing kilogram quantities of cocaine from Colombia.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ- The National Park Service (NPS) is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a missing person on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
By State Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
Release: On World Humanitarian Day, we recognize and honor all of the humanitarian aid workers who have sacrificed so much - including, for too many of them, their lives - to answer the call to protect and support the world’s most vulnerable populations. We commend the bravery and compassion of humanitarian aid...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 44-year-old Rockport man has surrendered to authorities following the return of an indictment alleging charges of distributing and possessing images of sexually-exploited children, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Eleven members of a Wasatch Front heroin distribution ring face federal charges for distributing heroin in Utah and Idaho in an indictment unsealed Monday in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Myles Frazier has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for the offenses of cyberstalking, enticement of a minor to engage in prostitution, and child pornography production.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging eight people, including the former Deputy Clerk of Muscogee County Court, with various criminal charges including bank fraud, wire fraud and interstate transportation of stolen property amounting to an alleged loss of nearly $500,000 to Muscogee County during an 11-month period in 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: OAKLAND - Shawn Jamison Prichard was sentenced today to 78 months in prison, for possession of child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Tatum King. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr., U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Springfield to conspiring to traffic cocaine and launder money.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior announced today that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public input on a commercial-scale wind energy facility that is proposed to be constructed on BLM-managed public land in southern Idaho, approximately 25 miles northeast of Twin Falls. The Lava Ridge Wind Energy Project has the potential to generate 1,000 megawatts of wind energy.
By State Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - MONTRELL CLEVELAND, age 34, a resident of Raceland, Louisiana, was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment, 5 years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $400.00 in special assessment fees by U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier after pleading guilty to four counts of a...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: La Junta, CO - From September 23-26, the Santa Fe Trail will come alive as the 200th anniversary of the trail is commemorated in and around La Junta, Colorado! The theme of the event is 200 years of commerce and cultural connections. This Santa Fe Trail Association-sponsored event is being hosted by...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - Nicole Poole Franklin, age 43, of Des Moines, was sentenced to 304 months in prison by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose after pleading guilty to two hate crime charges for attempting to kill two minors because of their race and national origin. The federal sentence...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging ZAQUAWN ARRINGTON, 22, of New Haven, with three counts of possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (“crack").
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Gainesville, FL - The U.S. Marshals-led Florida/Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force (FCRFTF), working with the Miami-Dade Police Department, arrested today a man charged with the murder of University of Miami football player Bryan Pata, who was shot and killed Nov. 7, 2006, outside his apartment complex in Kendall after leaving team practice earlier that day. He was 22 years old.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: The invention of flight has reached all corners of the globe and impacted the world in so many ways. From the cold, winter sands of the North Carolina coast, to the hot and humid summers at Huffman Prairie, Wilbur and Orville Wright took part in a legacy of flight that changed the world forever. Today...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Medical practice billed Medicare for expensive urine drug testing it did not use.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform; Rep. Diana DeGette, Co-Chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus; Rep. Barbara Lee, Co-Chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus; and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Committee on Oversight and Reform Member and Chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus’s Abortion Rights and Access Task Force, announced a resolution in support of equitable, science-based policies governing access to medication abortion care.
