News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Larry Gardner, a/k/a “Little Larry," age 40, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, including heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La.- If you have not yet received a payment or followed up on your determination letter from FEMA, you can do something to move the process along: call us, visit us online or use the FEMA app - just don’t wait. FEMA may be able to help!
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCIALES, TURKS and CAICOS - The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agreed to a partnership by signing a memorandum of understanding to allow the RTCIPF to use the ATF Electronic Tracing System.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM has developed a new, innovative system that reduces both operational downtime and personnel exposure at a key facility in the Savannah River Site (SRS) liquid waste system.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: U.S. Attorney Nikolas P. Kerest announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont collected $1,874,911.26 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2021. Of this amount, $1,326,495.45 was collected in criminal actions and $548,415.81 was collected in civil actions.
By State Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Promoting and Protecting Human Rights in Malaysia. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0008495. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345. Type...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
Release: Washington, D.C., Dec. 21, 2021 -- The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) today announced confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) in a Canada lynx at a zoo in Pennsylvania. This is the first Canada lynx confirmed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the United States.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON-Unruly airline passengers may face additional consequences for bad behavior under a new partnership between the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Stephen Johnstone, 32, of Gilford, was sentenced to 180 months in federal prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Convicted felon trafficked in handguns from Georgia.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is awarding $500,000 to Texas A&M University’s Norman Borlaug Institute to establish and teach school-based programs in Guatemala through the International Agricultural Education Fellowship Program (IAEFP), administered by USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).
By State Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today highlighted his major foreign policy achievements and priorities from the first session of the 117 th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that OSCAR NOEL DUENAS-RODRIGUEZ, age 47, a native of Honduras, was charged on Dec. 16, 2021 in a one-count Bill of Information with illegally using a social security number to obtain employment, in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Dec. 20, 2021, David J. Dexter (age: 44) of Kingsport, Tennessee, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison by Senior United States District Judge William C. Griesbach.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has approved the Arica and Victory Pass solar projects near Desert Center in eastern Riverside County. These are the first projects to be located within areas identified as suitable for renewable energy development as part of the BLM’s Desert Renewable...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CRYSTAL KLATT, 36, of Meriden, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to one count of wire fraud stemming from an embezzlement scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Winner, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM workers continue to reduce risks and prepare to deactivate the Main Plant Process Building (MPPB) for what will be the West Valley Demonstration Project ’s (WVDP) most complex demolition since crews knocked down the Vitrification Facility in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. Attorney Erek L. Barron announced that financial collections in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 in the District of Maryland reached $26,206,937.09. The U.S. Department of Justice keeps statistics on a fiscal year basis, closing the books each September 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Long Beach Township, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to a charge of obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
