News from December 2021
By State Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
Release: President Biden today signed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, underscoring the United States’ commitment to combatting forced labor, including in the context of the ongoing genocide in Xinjiang.
By State Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
Release: President Biden today signed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, underscoring the United States’ commitment to combatting forced labor, including in the context of the ongoing genocide in Xinjiang.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today announced that it will award grants totaling nearly $103 million to support youth and help achieve greater equity in the juvenile justice system.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Marshals are offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the capture of a man wanted in the Eastern District of Washington on a failure to appear on a significant multimillion dollar fraud case.
By State Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: Fort Smith, AR - An Oklahoma man wanted by the Drug Enforcement Administration in the Western District of Arkansas on charges of distributing methamphetamine and state charges in Oklahoma of assault with a deadly weapon, distribution of a controlled substance and conspiracy has been arrested in Mexico and deported to California.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - A 43-year-old Pembroke Pines, Florida man made his first appearance in Fort Lauderdale federal magistrate court today to face a charge that he used the U.S. mail system to solicit, plan, and pay for the murder of his former girlfriend’s new love interest.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - CLARENCE “BILLY" BURKETTE, age 53, and a resident of Slaughter, Louisiana, was indicted on Dec. 16, 2021, by a federal grand jury for multiple counts of wire fraud (Title 18, United States Code 1343), announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Shiloh Y. McLemore, 42, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, appeared in federal court for a preliminary and detention hearing on Dec. 17 where he was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. A federal grand jury indicted McLemore on Dec. 8.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: DENVER - FEMA has awarded more than $3.6 million to the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control to reimburse the cost of fire suppression measures resulting from the 2018 Spring Creek wildfire in Costilla and Huerfano Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that ROYCE NEIL PERRY JR a/k/a “Chucky," 24, of Fort Washakie, Wyoming, was sentenced for one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury and one count of involuntary manslaughter by Chief United States District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on December...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management Arizona Strip Field Office issued a decision that would allow wind testing facilities to move forward on public lands located near Yellowstone Mesa, southeast of Colorado City, Arizona, on the Arizona Strip.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: BRADENTON BEACH, FL - Two men doing framing work at a residential construction project in Bradenton Beach on June 23, 2021, had no warning when the platform beneath them failed, causing both to fall about 25 feet - roughly two stories - to the ground. Head trauma killed a 49-year-old carpenter and crew leader, who died at the scene. The second worker, a 40-year-old carpenter, suffered fractures to his leg, knee, ribs and nose, and needed transport to a local hospital.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Republican leaders, led by House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), House Committee on Agriculture Ranking Member Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.), and House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Ranking Member Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), today wrote Environmental...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today announced grant awards totaling over $37 million to support evidence-based law enforcement strategies designed to build trust with communities and improve public safety. The grants, made by OJP’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and...
By State Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
Release: At the second Japan-U.S. Clean Energy Partnership (JUCEP) plenary meeting on Dec. 15, 2021, the United States and Japan, led by the U.S. Department of State and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, reviewed achievements and set priorities to accelerate clean energy deployment in the Indo-Pacific region.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: HAMMOND - U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson announced today that the Northern District of Indiana collected $6,637,580.30 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2021. Of this amount, $5,174,664.80 was collected in criminal actions and $1,462,915.50 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that ADAM LEE GODWIN, age 35, of Sheridan, Wyoming pleaded guilty to being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm and possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it at a change of plea hearing held before Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Dec. 15, 2021. Sentencing is set for March 7, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. -Michael E. Shell, 52, of Melrose, Iowa, was sentenced on Dec. 21, 2021, to to 27 years in prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, for production of child pornography. Shell must also register as a sex offender once he is released.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky - One additional county is now eligible for FEMA Assistance after the Dec. 10, 2021 storms and tornadoes.
