News from December 2021
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
Release: Bangladesh. Overview: Bangladesh experienced a decrease in terrorist activity in 2020, accompanied by an increase in terrorism-related investigations and arrests. In 2020 there were three specific terrorist incidents, resulting in no deaths. As in prior years, the Bangladeshi government denied Bangladesh-based...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Briya Nychelle Harrington, of Baltimore, Maryland, has admitted distributing fentanyl, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: Chamizal National Memorial will be closed on Christmas and New Year’s Day to enable our staff the opportunity to spend the day with their families. All roads, trails, and facilities will be closed to all vehicle and pedestrian traffic.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: Nigeria. Overview: Boko Haram and ISIS-West Africa continued attacks against government and security forces and civilians in the Northeast, which resulted in deaths, injuries, abductions, and the capture and destruction of property. Boko Haram attacks did not discriminate between civilians and government...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Christopher Howard, 33, a Delano resident, was sentenced Tuesday to 57 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: Former Defense Contractor Arrested for Attempted Espionage.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Billings, Missouri, man who belongs to the Aryan Brotherhood pleaded guilty in federal court today to methamphetamine trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - An Indianapolis man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James R. Sweeney to over 27 years in prison following his conviction at trial for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - As U.S. overdose deaths reach a devastating new height, claiming a new victim every five minutes, the Drug Enforcement Administration has revealed a direct link between fentanyl-related overdose deaths and criminal drug networks in Mexico. These groups are harnessing social media platforms...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jesus Adrian Pena-Gamez, 33, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty Tuesday to possessing with the intent to distribute fentanyl, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Pena-Gamez is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd on March 14, 2022.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA) sent a letter to the Department of Education’s (Department) Inspector General Sandra Bruce asking her to investigate the Department’s decision to terminate its contracts with all private collection agencies (PCAs).
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: Malaysia. Overview: There were no terrorist attacks in Malaysia in 2020, but the country remained a transit point and, to a lesser extent, a destination country for members of terrorist groups including ISIS, Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), al-Qa’ida, and Jemaah Islamiyah. Individuals linked to ISIS or ASG planning...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.)-Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent action removing barriers to accessing mifepristone, or medication abortion.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
Release: (As Prepared). Good afternoon, and many thanks to Whit for that warm welcome. I am pleased to be with you all today at CSIS. I see this as a critical opportunity to have a bit of a reckoning on IUU fishing, by all of us on maritime security, marine resources, and ocean sustainability. I’ve been thinking...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - Six additional counties are now eligible for FEMA assistance after the Dec. 10, 2021 storms and tornadoes.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS - On or around Dec. 18, 2021, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Southern Nevada District, Pahrump Field Office, will begin a wild horse and burro gather on the Nevada Wild Horse Range Herd Management Area located about 30 miles southeast of Tonopah in Nye County, Nevada. The BLM plans...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Charles F. “Chuck" Sams III was ceremonially sworn in as Director of the National Park Service (NPS) by Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today. Chuck is the first Tribal citizen to lead the agency, which has been without a Senate confirmed leader for nearly five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A Coronado, California, man has been found guilty of federal violations related to a health care kickback scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Michael Belfiore, a former medical doctor, was sentenced by United States Circuit Judge Joseph F. Bianco to 23 years in prison for the illegal distribution of oxycodone causing the deaths of two patients and the illegal distribution...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a report they requested from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the lack of equitable outcomes in disaster recovery programming across the Federal Government.
