News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Briran Blake, 30, of St. Clair County, Illinois appeared before United States District Court Judge John A. Ross on today’s date and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. On Sept. 17, 2021, a jury found Blake guilty of two counts of bank robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria, Illinois, man, Dajuan Edwards-Melton, 20, of the 2100 block of Antoinette Street, appeared in federal court today in relation to a criminal complaint that charged him with burglarizing a gun store and possessing stolen firearms on Dec. 13, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Dermot Shea, Police Commissioner of the City of New York (“NYPD"), and Kevin P. Bruen...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, applauded the Senate for passing his bipartisan DHS Blue Campaign Enhancement Act as part of the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This bipartisan legislation...
By John Suayan | Dec 15, 2021
During a visit to Charlotte on Dec. 2, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the public transportation system of North Carolina’s largest city is going to benefit from the Biden administration’s $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
News Release: Carried Pistol When He Was Arrested for Rape, Sex Trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Todd Engles (33, Orlando) to 50 years in federal prison for producing, distributing, and possessing child sexual abuse material. The Court also ordered Engles to serve a 15-year term of supervised release, register as a sex offender, and forfeit his smartphone.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
News Release: St. Paul, Minn. - The Justice Department announced today that Derek Chauvin, 45, pleaded guilty in federal court to two violations of a federal civil rights statute.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
Release: The Government of Brazil has asked USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to authorize the importation of Chrysanthemum x morifolium plants for planting into the United States and Territories. APHIS has drafted a pest risk assessment that describes potential pests associated with the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
News Release: Defendant Accused of Joining Group in Attack on Officer; He is Now Among Nine Charged in Federal Indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Minneapolis man was sentenced to 60 months followed by four years of supervised release for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Charles J. Kovats.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
News Release: Four Charged in $35 Million COVID-19 Relief Fraud Scheme.
By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
Release: I want to thank all of you for the warm welcome here. I am a longtime District resident, so I have walked the streets around Howard University, but I’ve never had the opportunity to come inside and see the building, so thank you. The buildings are impressive, but it’s the spirit of the people who have...
By Tamara Browning | Dec 15, 2021
A federal investigation of illegal tips allocations by the Pittsburgh restaurant Provision PGH at the Federal Galley has recovered $41,560 for 12 employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
News Release: Scranton, PA - The U.S. Marshals are offering up to $5,000 for information leading to the capture of a Pennsylvania man charged with kidnapping, sexual assault and terroristic threats against a 14-year-old girl in October.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan W. Sharp announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 19 unsealed Indictments charging 21 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 Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
News Release: Failed monsoon rains that reignited the southwestern U.S. drought. A spring heat wave in western Europe. Intense Siberian wildfires. Scientists say human-caused climate change made these extreme weather events more likely, according to new research published today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS).
By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
Release: MODERATOR: Announcing the arrival of His Excellency Dato’ Saifuddin Abdullah, minister of foreign affairs of Malaysia, and His Excellency Antony Blinken, Secretary of State of the United States of America.
By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
Release: We are alarmed by a potential deployment of Russia-backed Wagner Group forces in Mali. We understand that the reported deal - costing $10 million per month - diverts money that could be used to support the Malian Armed Forces and public services to pay for the deployment of Yevgeniy Prigozhin’s Wagner ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES- A Los Angeles man was arrested late Monday night on a federal grand jury indictment alleging he provided fentanyl-laced pills to a 15-year-old who died on July 8, 2021 after taking the pills.
