News from August 2021
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: CEDAR CITY, Utah - In order to restore key wildlife habitat and reduce hazardous wildfire fuels, the Bureau of Land Management’s Cedar City Field Office proposes habitat restoration for portions of Bear Valley in southwest Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Southern California man pleaded guilty today for attempting to set fire to the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse during a protest in Downtown Portland on July 13, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: MILLS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Reclamation will be lowering the water level in Guernsey Reservoir as the 2021 irrigation season draws to a close.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - A 29-year-old Mexican national living in South Florida who pretended to be a nine-year-old girl during on-line chats and solicited minors to produce child sexual abuse material pled guilty today in federal district court in West Palm Beach to committing child exploitation crimes and being in the United States illegally following deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Billy Ray Jones, Jr., 39, of Pineville, was sentenced by United States District Judge Dee D. Drell to 57 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Mount Gilead man was sentenced today in federal court in Greensboro for knowingly possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and for distribution of fentanyl, announced Acting United States Attorney Sandra J. Hairston of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Gresham, Oregon man pleaded guilty today for stealing financial and identification documents from more than 100 people in and around Portland.
By State Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: The Defendant Continued to Traffic Narcotics While on Pretrial Release on Multiple State Offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $915,120 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Nevada System of Higher Education, Las Vegas, Nevada, to support the post-pandemic revitalization of Nevada’s travel and tourism sectors. This EDA grant, to be matched with $228,780 in local investment, is expected to create 13 jobs and retain 120 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal drug laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JERMAINE OGRINC, 35, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 66 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in violent Bridgeport restaurant robbery in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A New Hampshire man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Portland for conspiring to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 21-year old local woman has been ordered to federal prison for possessing with intent to distribute 94.18 kilograms of meth, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Ruth Cintrón Valles with a carjacking in Río Piedras, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and National Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) sent a letter to U.S. Department of State Secretary Antony Blinken and U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin requesting their commitment to testify at an oversight hearing of the Biden Administration’s poor execution of the Afghan withdrawal.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Mean Peach, age 65 and Eam Peng Chou, age 56, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to two years in federal prison and a year and a day in federal prison, respectively, each followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE - A federal grand jury in Anchorage returned an indictment yesterday charging a Naknek, Alaska, man for possession and attempted possession of methamphetamine and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 262 months’ imprisonment and 10 years’ supervised release on his conviction of narcotics trafficking, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man who drove intoxicated and caused a wreck that killed one man and seriously injured another was sentenced today in federal court.
