News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Court Judge Matthew T. Schelp accepted a plea of guilty from Brent Lawson on today’s date for receiving child pornography. A grand jury in the Eastern District of Missouri previously indicted Lawson for the charge. Judge Schelp set sentencing for March 18, 2022.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: The management of Denali National Park and Preserve has determined that there is adequate snow cover for the use of snowmobiles for traditional activities in areas of the 1980 park additions that are south of the crest of the Alaska Range from the southwest preserve to the North Fork of the Eldridge Glacier. All other areas south of the Alaska Range, including the Broad Pass/Cantwell area, remain closed at this time due to inadequate snow coverage.
By State Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
Release: Three years ago, Sudan’s citizens united to demand an end to repression and the start of a democratic future. Sudanese from all walks of life - especially Sudan’s women and youth - showed great courage in taking to the streets. Some paid with their lives. Their bravery and sacrifice will forever remain an inspiration to all those seeking democracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for two counts of Transportation of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Shawn Andrew Wilson (47, Fernandina Beach) has pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. Wilson faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 5 years, and up to, 40 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: Defendant communicated with woman in Canada about sexually molesting her children.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - A federal jury has convicted Antonio Jamar Laster of conspiring and attempting to traffic methamphetamine sourced from a cartel-connected stash house hidden in plain sight in the north Atlanta suburbs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - A federal jury has found Raynaldo Ray Quiroga (37, LaBelle) guilty of Hobbs Act robbery, brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, possessing stolen firearms, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, related to an armed robbery of a pawnshop in LaBelle in May 2021. As a result, Quiroga faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 21, 2022.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
Release: The Government of the United Kingdom has asked USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to authorize the importation of potato mini tubers into the United States and Territories. APHIS has drafted a pest risk assessment that describes potential pests associated with the commodity. APHIS ...
By State Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL FY21 IRF: Supporting Religious Equality and Protection in Bangladesh. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0008468. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Essex County, New Jersey, women were indicted today in connection with a scheme to arrange sham marriages between U.S. citizens and non-citizens seeking to stay in the United States unlawfully, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, and U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren, and Richard Blumenthal today sent a letter to the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon has sentenced a 49-year-old man from Highlands County, Florida, to 130 months in prison for drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Erwin Boateng, age 32, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, to 42 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit bank fraud in connection with a scheme in which the conspirators opened bank...
By Bob Martin | Dec 17, 2021
The U.S. Senate confirmed President Joe BIden's nominee Rachael Rollins as U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, in a party-line vote Dec. 8 that had Vice President Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote in favor of Rollins.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) blasted the Select Subcommittee Democrats’ latest report...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Christine Bradley Okpako, age 54, of Sayre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Dec. 15, 2021, to 37 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Matthew W. Brann for conspiring to launder approximately $1.89 million in mail and wire fraud proceeds.
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is releasing preliminary fiscal year (FY) 2021 agency statistics and accomplishments.
