News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man was sentenced today to 17.5 years in prison for illegally possessing firearms as a felon, four counts of witness tampering and obstruction of justice, and one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance.
By Press Release | Dec 3, 2021
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) Senior Advisor William “Ike” White presented Pam Marks of the Savannah River Site (SRS) with the DOE’s Federal Project Director of the Year Award for 2020 during his visit to the site today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Dywan Meredith, 30, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on Dec. 1, 2021 in federal court in Omaha as a felon in possession of a firearm. United States District Court Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Meredith to 46 months’ imprisonment for the...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: SALMON, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Salmon Field Office has received a Special Recreation Permit (SRP) application to open a new outfitted big game hunting area within part of Idaho Fish & Game (IDFG) Management Unit 29 (see attached map). The SRP application includes outfitted big game...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JAVORIOUS SCOTT, aka JAYDAYOUNGAN, age 23, a Bogalusa resident and rapper was charged in a one-count indictment with possession of a firearm while under indictment for a felony, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(n)(1) and 924(a)(1)(D), announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monroe County, Pennsylvania man was sentenced today to 200 months in prison for his role in distributing large quantities of heroin and cocaine in the Bayshore area of Monmouth and Middlesex counties, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: SHREWSBURY, Pa., Dec. 03, 2021 - United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the Department is investing $633 million to reduce the impacts of climate change (PDF, 394 KB) on rural communities. With the enactment of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and as part...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Mario Rayshawn White, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to five years of probation for a drug charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: Defendant Accused of Throwing Objects at Officers, Using Makeshift Weapons, and Damaging Exterior.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Matthew G. Garabrandt, 30, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for possession of child pornography. Garabrandt was sentenced to 4 years in prison and will also serve 5 years on supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system. After serving his prison sentence, Garabrandt will also be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: The Department of Justice, FBI, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and five other federal law enforcement agencies announced the completion of the fourth annual Money Mule Initiative, which targeted networks of individuals through which international fraudsters obtain proceeds of fraud schemes. These individuals, sometimes referred to as money mules, receive money from fraud victims and forward the illicit funds, often to overseas perpetrators.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Joseph D. Sanford, 74, of Ceres, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to violate the Animal Welfare Act by operating a cockfighting and fighting-bird breeding business, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: Four Defendants Prosecuted in Eastern District of Missouri.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK - A federal workplace safety investigation has found a Queens construction contractor failed to provide and ensure the use of effective fall protection safeguards that would have prevented the death of a worker who fell about 60 feet from a roof on May 27, 2021, during demolition of a Brooklyn building.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The owner of a cannabis company has been charged in federal court in Chicago with swindling investors out of more than $950,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Anthony Lucero, 36, of Isleta, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Isleta, was sentenced today in federal court to three years and one month in prison for domestic assault by a habitual offender. Lucero pleaded guilty on Feb. 10.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: Also Admitted that He Distributed Large Quantities of Heroin, Fentanyl, and Cocaine in Furtherance of the Criminal Enterprise.
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Transitional Justice. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0008465. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345. Type of Solicitation: Open Competition...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy Terrazas, and inmate at United States Penitentiary Hazleton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, has admitted to assault and was sentenced today to an additional 24 months of incarceration, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Jahlil Marsh, 28, formerly of Stowe, Vermont, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford. Marsh previously pleaded guilty to a superseding information charging him with participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy. Judge Crawford imposed a sentence of 60 months of imprisonment, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release.
