News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - A’keem Stanley, 24, of St. Croix, appeared before Magistrate Judge George W. Cannon in District Court and entered a guilty plea to the charge of Aiding and Abetting Possession of Firearm by Person Under Indictment, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge related to drug trafficking in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark today man admitted his role in a large international money laundering conspiracy and to using a stolen identity in furtherance of the scheme, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Des Moines University Osteopathic Medicine Center, Des Moines, Iowa, to purchase equipment for the university’s planned state-of-the-art telehealth training center. This EDA grant, to be matched with $2.1 million in local investment, is expected to create 678 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Jamilla Ciar Hall of Tallahassee, Florida, has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, mail fraud, and aggravated identity theft arising out of her work with the Florida Prepaid College Program. Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentence, which was handed down on Tuesday following Hall’s guilty plea last September.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - Paige Michelle Anderson, 29, from Ocean Isle Beach, NC was sentenced today to a total of 72 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine from April to June 2020; possession...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management Ely District, Caliente Field Office concluded the Silver King Herd Management Area (HMA) wild horse gather on Feb. 16, 2021. The BLM gathered 284 excess wild horses and removed 256 excess horses from public and private lands in and outside the HMA located in Lincoln County, Nevada. The BLM is treating 25 mares with the fertility control vaccine GonaCon-Equine and will release them back into the HMA.
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: New Jersey Residents Allegedly Instructed Victim to Transfer Money Using Bitcoin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two men from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Samuel Lamont Harris Sr., 28, of Gastonia, North Carolina, was sentenced to 54 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for illegal possession of a firearm. U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell presided over the hearing.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the city of Lawton, Oklahoma, to make roadway improvements to Lee Boulevard to improve access to the Lawton Industrial Park, Great Plains Technology Institute, and Southwest Medical Center. The EDA grant, to be matched with $5.5 million in local investment, is expected to retain 3,070 jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Dover, Tennessee- Fort Donelson National Battlefield is closed today, Thursday, February 18.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Gerald Griffith, also known as “Jerry Porecca," 47, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to nine years and two months in prison and three years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Nitza I. Quinones Alejandro for a nearly six-month-long crime spree during which he robbed eight banks and businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - Neville Singleton, 38, of North Charleston, South Carolina was sentenced on Feb. 17, 2021, to 210 months imprisonment for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, distribution of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and aiding and abetting, and possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and aiding and abetting.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today that Christopher Vera was sentenced to 10 months in prison and three years of supervised release for attempting to smuggle marijuana into St. Thomas.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - David Kyle Reeves, of, Gastonia, N.C., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Charlotte for making threats against the President of the United States and related charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Peever, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Interstate Domestic Violence, Kidnapping, and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
