News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: A Humboldt, Iowa man who possessed a sawed-off shotgun was sentenced Dec. 15, 2021 to 8 years in federal prison.
By State Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: U.S. Department of State Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Assistant Secretary Donald Lu and Kazakhstan Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Akan Rakhmetullin led a successful annual meeting of the U.S.-Kazakhstan Enhanced Strategic Partnership Dialogue (ESPD) December 15 in Nur-Sultan.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announced today that it does not expect to purchase and sell sugar under the Feedstock Flexibility Program for crop year 2021, which runs from Oct. 1, 2021, to Sept. 30, 2022.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. Dec. 23, 2021 - National Park Service personnel are preparing for what is typically one of the busiest holiday weeks of the year amid the latest in a series of recent significant precipitation events. With heavy rain at the parks’ lower elevations and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO -The Department of Justice today announced nearly $126 million in funding to advance school safety under the STOP School Violence Act. The grants, awarded by the Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: Used hidden drain, pump, and repeated lies to regulators to routinely dump highly caustic pollutants into King County sewer system.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today announced grant awards totaling more than $210 million to fund crime laboratories, support research, decrease DNA backlogs and help law enforcement identify missing persons. The funding is administered by the OJP’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and National Institute of Justice (NIJ).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs today announced grants totaling more than $12 million to support data and information sharing across law enforcement agencies, in order to reduce crime and make communities safer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: Spokane, Washington - On Dec. 13, 2021, Senior United States District Judge W. Fremming Nielsen sentenced Patrick Elliott Pearson, 49, of Moses Lake, Washington, to 35 years in prison for shooting at four ATF agents with a shotgun in connection with a wide-ranging conspiracy to distribute heroin...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: DENVER - A Mexican national arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations officers Sept. 12, 2019, was found guilty and sentenced to charges in a drug conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: Promontory Summit, UT - Golden Spike National Historical Park invites the public to join us December 28th, 29th, and 30th for Winter Steam Festival.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: The Department of Justice today announced nearly $126 million in funding to advance school safety under the STOP School Violence Act. The Maine Department of Education, Maine School Administrative District 30, covering the Town of Lee in rural Penobscot County, and the City of Bangor are among the grant recipients.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: Spokane, Washington - On Dec. 13, 2021, Senior United States District Judge W. Fremming Nielsen sentenced Patrick Elliott Pearson, 49, of Moses Lake, Washington, to 35 years in prison for shooting at four ATF agents with a shotgun in connection with a wide-ranging conspiracy to distribute heroin...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today announced nearly $444 million in grant awards to support a wide range of violence reduction efforts, including community-based violence intervention and prevention strategies, youth and school violence prevention programs and evidence-based police and prosecution practices. Funding will also support research on civil disturbances, school safety and violence against women.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss.- A Dallas, Texas man was sentenced yesterday to 190 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Vernon “Jeb" Bison, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: Stillwater, NY - The primary visitor experience at Saratoga National Historical Park is about to benefit from $6.6 million in funding provided by the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA). Extensive work on the park’s popular, self-guided battlefield Tour Road will begin in 2022 and result in increased...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: Hamilton County Schools Awarded $266,314 for STOP School Violence Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Josiah Brown, 19, of Wilmington, DE, was arrested and charged by Criminal Complaint on charges of carjacking and carrying and using a firearm during a crime of violence in connection with an armed carjacking that occurred...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss.- A Dallas, Texas man was sentenced yesterday to 190 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Vernon “Jeb" Bison, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that DALCO GABRIEL WHITEMAN, 54, of Riverton, Wyoming was sentenced on two counts of aggravated sexual abuse and four counts of abusive sexual contact by Chief District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Dec. 20, 2021. Whiteman was sentenced to 71 years of imprisonment followed by 15 years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a fine of $1,000 and a special assessment of $600.
