News from February 2021
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
News Release: MOOSE, WY-Teton Interagency Dispatch Center received an emergency call at approximately 12 p.m. today, Monday, Feb. 22, about a skier involved in an avalanche in the Broken Thumb Couloir on the peak known as 25 Short in Grand Teton National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Andrew L. Foster, 36, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for distribution and receipt of Child Pornography. Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Foster to 60 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal prison system. After his release from prison, Foster will serve 8 years of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
Release: Thank you to the UNEP staff, Executive Director, Inger Andersen, Deputy Executive Director, Joyce Msuya, and Minister Rotevatn for their commitment to the success of this gathering.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Involuntary Manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
News Release: The wife of Joaquin “El Chapo" Guzman Loera, leader of a Mexican drug trafficking organization known as the Sinaloa Cartel, was arrested today in Virginia on charges related to her alleged involvement in international drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - Chief U.S. District Judge Sara L. Darrow today sentenced a Champaign, Ill., man, Tommie Slayton, 36, of the 2400 block of Clayton Boulevard, to serve 24 months in prison for engaging in a counterfeit check scheme that resulted in an estimated loss of more than $100,000. Slayton was remanded...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Feb. 19, 2021, Corey Treadwell, age 49, previously of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced to 240 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, for assault with intent to commit murder.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
News Release: Sedro Woolley, WA- The established climbing management areas identified below are closed to all public use from March 1, 2021 to July 15, 2021 to protect peregrine falcon nesting aeries.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced that Jasmine Johnnae Clifton, 24, of Charlotte, appeared in court today on federal charges, for fraudulently obtaining a COVID-19 loan for almost $150,000 from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA- House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court denied former President Trump’s request to yet again shield his tax returns...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
News Release: Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is pleased to announce that beginning March 1, 2021, the Brown Trout Incentivized Harvest Program will begin making a $33 payment for each brown trout harvested and turned in. The program began Nov. 11, 2020 with payments of $25 per fish.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
Release: BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed new acrylic shields at the security checkpoint at Greater Binghamton Regional Airport as part of the agency’s ongoing efforts to implement initiatives to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced Jose Flores Romero, 29, of Mexico, to 87 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release on drug trafficking charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Feb. 22, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Feb. 22, 2021, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Kyle Charles Julian, age 26, of Clinton, to 46 months in prison for Felon in Possession of a Firearm announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Julian was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow his prison term as well as pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
News Release: The Defendant Allegedly Fraudulently Obtained more than $60,000 in Government-Funded Coronavirus Aid Relief.
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States and the American people, I am honored to send heartfelt congratulations to His Majesty the Emperor of Japan on the occasion of his 61st birthday this February 23. When then-Chief Cabinet Secretary and now Prime Minister Suga unveiled to the world the era...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, Mark Fredrick Sandell, age 63, of Red Oak, was sentenced to 180 months in prison and five years of supervised release announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. At the time Sandell committed the present offense, he was on supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Thomas Traumann, 53, of Wilmington, DE, was sentenced to eight years and three months in prison, ten years of supervised release, and a $25,000 find by United States District Court Judge Gene E.K. Pratter for traveling across state lines to have sex with a person whom he believed to be a minor child.
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
Release: The United States stands in solidarity with the people of Burma who came out across the country with courage and determination today to reject the military coup and voice their aspirations for a return to democratic governance, peace, and rule of law. We condemn the security forces’ brutal attacks on...
