News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Elijah Jovann Wheeler-Watson, 25, of Springfield, Massachusetts, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington in connection with his October 2019 drug trafficking activity in Vermont. Wheeler-Watson...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: An Irving man was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison for possession of multiple unregistered machine gun conversion sears as well as numerous drug crimes, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against Defendant Baha Jaffal, 29, of Parma, Ohio, on Friday, Dec. 17, following a five-day trial before Judge Benita Y. Pearson in Cleveland. Jaffal was convicted of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, using or carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for the botched robbery of a Grandview, Mo., auto dealership that ended when he shot an employee while fleeing, after a shootout with the owner, who was also armed.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: Central Ore. -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Prineville District Office will soon change how boater permits are released for portions of the John Day Wild and Scenic River. Beginning Jan. 1, 2022, boater permits for the high season of use will be released on a daily rolling schedule instead of block releases that were used in past years.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: HAWAII NATIONAL PARK, Hawaiʻi -- Visiting Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park during the crowded holidays is no walk in the park. It’s easy to become the Grinch but donʻt let the congestion snatch your holiday spirit! Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park invites you to skip the stress and come holoholo by yourself, with friends or the family to the park’s lesser known and uncrowded destinations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - Hershel James Ratliff, age 71, of Council Bluffs, was sentenced Thursday Dec. 16, 2021, by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 360 months in prison for six counts of Human Trafficking and one count of Distribution of a Controlled Substance to a Minor. His prison term will be followed by ten years of supervised release. A jury found Ratliff guilty of the offenses on July 23, 2021.
By Trina Thomas | Dec 20, 2021
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently launched an initiative to protect professional caregivers from wage violations and reminded employers to abide by workers’ rights laws.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that their bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Training for the Acquisition Workforce Act which will help bolster the federal workforce’s...
By Press Release | Dec 20, 2021
Last week the Department of the Interior released their top 5 accomplishments for 2021 via social media.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - All Disaster Recovery Centers in Louisiana will be closed Dec. 24 - 26 and close again the following week Dec. 31 - Jan. 2 for the holidays.
By State Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: Defendant Listed an At-Home Care Patient’s Address to Received Fraudulently Obtained Unemployment Funds; Participated in an Elder Fraud Scheme That Defrauded 13 Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Terrance Harden, age 30, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was sentenced on December 8, 2021 to 151 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base and fentanyl and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Maryland man pleaded guilty today to transporting over $300,000 of stolen monies from West Virginia to Maryland.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced today the expansion of its TSA PreCheck® expedited screening program with the addition of Avelo Airlines, adding to the more than 80 TSA PreCheck participating domestic and international carriers.
By Trina Thomas | Dec 20, 2021
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently awarded $184,000 to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium as part of its plan to address unsafe drinking water in tribal schools and childcare facilities..
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dighton registered nurse was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for drug tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher today sentenced Karon Foster, age 27, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 40 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity, for a carjacking conspiracy, and for aiding and abetting a carjacking resulting in death.
By George Willis | Dec 20, 2021
The Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for private employers took a hit Dec. 8 when the Senate voted it should be overturned.
