News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer and Assault by Striking, Beating, or Wounding was sentenced on December 7, 2021, by Judge Mark A. Moreno, U.S. District Court.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
Release: After a gap of six years, whole U.S. turkeys are back on the menu in the People’s Republic of China (China). Promotional events were in full swing throughout the month of November across China by the U.S. Agricultural Trade Offices (ATO) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A Madison County man has been sentenced for unlawful gun possession by a.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, S.D.-Investigators with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) worked with state, local, tribal and federal law enforcement partners on an enforcement activity in six cities of eastern South Dakota earlier today, arresting 10 people on federal drug charges and four people on state drug charges. Agents located and seized methamphetamine and eight firearms at multiple properties this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - This week, 60-year-old Paul Vernon Hoeffer was arraigned in federal court in West Palm Beach on charges that he called and threatened to injure two members of Congress and a district attorney.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on December 6, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on December 9, 2021, Imhram Clarke, age 44, of Steelton, Pennsylvania was sentenced to 21 months’ imprisonment for mail fraud by U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: Natchez, Miss. - A McComb man was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Burlington County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for stealing more than $350,000 from a special needs trust, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Following eight days of trial in federal court, David Chappell Fey (57, Belleview) and Shari Lynn Gunter (58, Ocklawaha) have each been found guilty as charged for the murder of a government witness. The trial required special accommodations: a separate jury heard evidence for each defendant.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: $220,856 awarded for projects in the Southern District of Indiana.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
Release: BOSTON - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers detected another firearm in a man’s carry-on bag at a Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) security checkpoint yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: Richard G. Frohling, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on December 8, 2021, Sean A. Jochims (age: 51) of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, was convicted of one count of possession of child pornography. The formal conviction followed the filing of a written plea agreement on November 5, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that it has awarded more than $17.5 million in grants to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program. Funding will support efforts across the country to address violent crime, including the gun violence that is often at its core. The Montana Board of Crime Control, through the Montana Department of Corrections, was awarded $94.012 to administer PSN grant funds in the District of Montana.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Travis Fanning, 26, of Albuquerque, was sentenced on Dec. 8 in federal court to four years and nine months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and possession with intent to use or transfer five or more identification documents or authentication features. Fanning pleaded guilty on May 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that it has awarded more than $17.5 million in grants to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program. Funding will support efforts across the country to address violent crime, including the gun violence that is often at its core. In the Middle District of Florida, $546,480 was awarded to fund initiatives throughout the district.
By Bob Martin | Dec 9, 2021
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently launched a fourth expansion of the Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) in an effort to improve the commercial viability of clean energy technology.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Lumberton man has pleaded guilty to federal child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that it has awarded more than $17.5 million in grants to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program. Funding will support efforts across the country to address violent crime, including the gun violence that is often at its core. The Mississippi...
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: “In the face of the sustained and alarming challenges to democracy and universal human rights around the world, more than ever, democracy needs champions.".
