News from February 2021
By USDA Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
Release: Washington - Following a months-long investigation into thousands of reports from citizens who received unsolicited seed packages in the mail last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is providing additional guidance to help online buyers ...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is implementing interim operating guidance that will temporarily govern its civil immigration enforcement and removal operations, until Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas issues new enforcement guidelines for the Department. Secretary Mayorkas is expected to issue new enforcement guidelines in less than 90 days, after consultation with Department personnel and external stakeholders.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Lamont Thomas, 42, of Detroit, Michigan, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture containing methamphetamine and a quantity of heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $6.7 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to help communities and businesses in California respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory W. Meeks and Lead Republican Michael McCaul sent a letter to President Biden urging him to consider using the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to sanction those responsible for the recent assassination of Lebanese activist Lokman Slim.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - Sean Smith, 32, of Onslow County, was sentenced on Feb. 17, 2021, to 198 months imprisonment for possession with intent to distribute a quantity of methamphetamine and possessing, brandishing, and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A former member of the New Bedford Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") was sentenced today on racketeering charges. The defendant admitted to participating in a June 2019 shooting of another Latin Kings member who was in bad standing with the gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael D. Darling, age 41, of Gloversville, New York, was arrested earlier this week on a charge of possessing pipe bombs as unregistered destructive devices.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
Release: The Biden Administration is committed to strengthening U.S. alliance relationships, particularly with our key Northeast Asian allies Japan and the Republic of Korea. As part of this effort, and against the backdrop of the Biden Administration’s ongoing North Korea policy review, representatives from...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced Adam Lee Hollis (42, Polk County) to 45 years in federal prison for producing sexually explicit photographs of a seven-year-old child in his custody, and for having committed that offense while being required to register as a sex offender. Hollis was also ordered to serve a 20-year term of supervised release following his incarceration.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
Release: The following statement was released by United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, and UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab following today’s ministerial meeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Feb. 18, 2021, Timothy Wayne Turben, 40, of LaFollette, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Judge, to serve 97 months in federal prison for knowingly distributing child pornography in interstate commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault With a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: GREENEVILLE Tenn. - On February 8, 2021, Lyle Vernon Tarlton, 30, of Telford, was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $10.3 million grant to Northern Marianas Technical Institute, Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, to support workforce education and training through the construction of a new facility to house the school’s trades program. This EDA grant is expected to create 410 jobs, retain 385 jobs, and generate $2 million in private investment.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and six senators today proposed a bill to help states adopt mobile crisis response teams that can be dispatched when a person is experiencing a mental health or substance use disorder (SUD) crisis instead of immediately involving law enforcement. The funding is provided through an enhanced federal match rate for state Medicaid programs.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the below statement regarding today’s announcements regarding Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Manderson, South Dakota, man convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter was sentenced by Judge Karen K. Schreier, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that he has submitted his resignation as United States Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana, effective Feb. 28, 2021. Mr. Fremin was appointed by President Donald J. Trump to the position of United States Attorney in February 2018.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
Release: FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION. DA-2021-01. Feb. 17, 2021To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory OfficialsEffective Sept. 24, 2020, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) removed giant African land snail (GAS) regulated area, Zone G, from the list of quarantine areas in Miami-Dade ...
