News from February 2021
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - February is Black History Month and New River Gorge National Park and Preserve is highlighting the park’s African American Heritage Tour (AAHT), available for free in CD format at the Canyon Rim Visitor Center. The tour can also be found on the park website at African American Heritage Auto Tour - New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov).
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 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 Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. - The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking input as we begin to develop a site plan for the Shark Valley area of Everglades National Park. The purpose of this project is to enhance the visitor experience, safety and park operations at Shark Valley as envisioned in the park’s 2015 General Management Plan (GMP). The site plan will address issues of unsafe parking, flooding on the Entrance and Tram Roads and improvements to the administrative complex.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Matthew Modafferi, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal Service, Office of Inspector General, announced that ABILIO PEDROSO, 41, of Danielson, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden to theft of government property related to his receipt of more than $66,000 in fraudulent postal insurance claims.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: ASTORIA, OR - How would you like to work, learn, play, and serve in a national park? Lewis and Clark National Historical Park is currently recruiting for the 2021 Youth Conservation Corps (YCC), a non-residential work-based education program for high school age students.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Everett, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 40 months in prison followed by three years supervised release after pleading guilty last year to various counts related to firearms stolen from the National Firearms and Ammunition Destruction Branch (NFAD), United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A member of the Proud Boys, a nationalist organization, was arrested today and charged in federal court in the District of Columbia with obstructing or impeding an official proceeding, among other charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of ANDREW ALBERT COMEAUX, 38, to one count of felon in possession of a firearm. COMEAUX pleaded guilty earlier today before Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. COMEAUX is currently scheduled to be sentenced on May 25, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia has returned an indictment charging a Hawaii man who purports to have founded the Honolulu chapter of the Proud Boys and a Texas man with conspiring to obstruct the United States Congress’ certification of the results of the 2020 U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: Bergenske had a prior conviction involving a dangerous weapon and 5 outstanding arrest warrants when captured by police.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of ANDREW ALBERT COMEAUX, 38, to one count of felon in possession of a firearm. COMEAUX pleaded guilty earlier today before Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. COMEAUX is currently scheduled to be sentenced on May 25, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man was convicted today in federal court for cutting his girlfriend’s throat and for illegally possessing a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: Hot Springs, AR - To protect the health of those who live, work, and visit national parks and National Park Service (NPS) facilities, and in support of President Biden’s Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing, NPS is immediately implementing a mask requirement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The owner of several Fairlawn, New Jersey, businesses was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for failing to pay more than $500,000 in payroll taxes, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - A former University of Florida (UF) professor and researcher and resident of China has been indicted for fraudulently obtaining $1.75 million in federal grant money from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by concealing support he received from the Chinese government and a company that he founded in China to profit from that research.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Sarah Patricia Loya, 22, of Albuquerque, made an initial appearance in federal court on Feb. 2 where she was charged with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and assaulting a federal officer. Loya will remain detained pending a preliminary hearing scheduled for Feb. 4.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: To protect the health of those who live, work, and visit national parks and National Park Service (NPS) facilities, and in support of President Biden’s Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing, NPS is immediately implementing a mask requirement for employees, visitors...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States Attorney Robert K. Hur announced today that he will resign his position as the chief federal law enforcement officer for the District of Maryland. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland is one of the country’s largest and busiest, serving a population...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: At approximately 9:15 a.m. EST, Feb. 3, 2021, staff at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) responded to an alert of elevated radiation levels in the confinement building of the NIST Center for Neutron Research on its Gaithersburg, Maryland, campus.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that a federal grand jury, sitting in Burlington, returned an indictment charging Dorian Johnson (a.k.a. “Jon"), 27, of Bloomfield, Connecticut with distributing cocaine base within 1,000 feet of the Brewster Pierce Memorial ...
