News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: DETROIT - A federal criminal complaint was unsealed today charging a former Detroit Police Department detective with bribery Acting United States Attorney Saima S. Mohsin announced. The charges were brought against Michael Pacteles, 44, of Southgate, who resigned from the Detroit Police Department (DPD) in 2020 and who is currently an officer with the Hamtramck Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - A Council Bluffs man was sentenced Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021, by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to 120 months in prison for Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm. According to court documents, Clarence L. Woolsoncroft, age 58, pleaded guilty to the firearm offense in August of 2021. Woolsoncroft will serve three years of supervised release following his prison term.
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: Strengthening Religious Freedom in Sudan through the Rule of Law. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0008466. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance...
By State Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
Release: On Dec. 17, 2021, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose W. Fernandez and the ROK Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Choi Jongmoon met in Seoul to co-chair the Sixth U.S.-ROK Senior Economic Dialogue (SED). Under Secretary Fernandez and Vice Minister Choi...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A Border Patrol (BP) agent has pleaded guilty to attempting to aid and abet smuggling cocaine through a BP checkpoint, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ANTHONY SMALLS, age 33, of New York, New York, was sentenced on Dec. 16, 2021 by U.S. District Court Judge Carl J. Barbier of the Eastern District of Louisiana to 37 months of incarceration for conspiracy to pass altered U.S. Postal money orders, passing altered U.S. Postal money orders and possessing stolen U.S. government property.
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 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: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans for the Eastern District of Louisiana, announced that TREYVON TOBIAS (“TOBIAS"), age 22, of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana was sentenced on Dec. 16, 2021 to 125 months imprisonment today by United States District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo for Brandishing...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal jury returned a guilty verdict on Dec. 16 in the trial of Paul Michael Astorga, 35, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, on one count each of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Astorga will remain in custody pending sentencing, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Authorities this morning arrested a Riverside man who allegedly sold counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl that caused the fatal overdose of a college student who was visiting her family for the holidays two years ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: Registered Sex Offender Sentenced To 50 Years in Prison for Producing and Using Facebook to Distribute Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - An Autryville man was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to make restitution on a charge of Malicious Damage to Property Used in Commerce, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 844(i).
By Press Release | Dec 17, 2021
Today, the House of Representatives passed a pair of bills to provide certainty and transparency in cattle markets—H.R. 5609, the Cattle Contract Library Act introduced by Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee Republican Leader Dusty Johnson, and H.R. 5290, a one-year extension for the Livestock Mandatory Reporting (LMR) Act introduced by Chairman David Scott.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Timothy Myers, 37, of Freehold, NJ, who was convicted of production of child pornography and cyberstalking, was sentenced to serve 240 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky.- A Carlisle, Ky., man, Earl Lee Planck, Jr., 62, was sentenced to 56 months in federal prison on Friday, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, after previously pleading guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States, crop insurance fraud, and tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: Alleged member of Heath Street gang currently facing four firearms charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - Don’t let a fraud or scam steal the joy of the holiday season from you. Be aware that con artists and criminals may try to steal money or personal information from you through fraud, scams or identity theft. Some may even pose as federal disaster workers.
By Press Release | Dec 17, 2021
Today, four bipartisan bills drafted and moved out of the House Agriculture Committee, H.R. 5290; H.R. 5608; H.R. 5609; and H.R 4489, passed in the House of Representatives.
By State Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), chair of the Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, today released the following statement on Polish lawmakers’ decision to approve legislation that targets free media and jeopardizes U.S. investments:
