News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A fourth man was arrested today for his role in a conspiracy to steal and transport across state lines luxury cars from towns in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt this week designated three new sites as national natural landmarks. The sites in West Virginia, Colorado and California bring the number of national natural landmarks in the U.S. to 602, heralding an important milestone for the National Park Service’s National Natural Landmarks Program.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - The EM and National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Los Alamos field offices completed their first comingled shipment of transuranic waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) on Jan. 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Concord, NH - The United States Marshals Service is very happy to announce the arrest of one of New Hampshire’s “Fugitives of the Week," Jesse Davis. Jesse Daniel Davis, 38 years-of-age, was arrested early this morning after being found using the name, Jesse Kimball at a Lewiston, Maine hotel. Davis...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky.- A Flemingsburg, Ky., man, Wesley A. Miles, 28, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, before Chief U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves, to illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.56 million grant to the city of Loudon, Tennessee, to make infrastructure improvements to allow for expansion of new and existing industries in the region. The EDA grant, to be matched with $640,000 in local investment, is expected to create 200 jobs, retain 1,010 jobs, and spur $130 million in private investment.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.7 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to California Coastal Rural Development Corporation (CCRDC), Salinas, California, to establish and administer...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev.- The Humboldt River Field Office (HRFO) has released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) analyzing the proposed Gold Acquisition Corporation (GAC), Relief Canyon Mine Expansion Project located approximately 16 miles east of Lovelock in Pershing County, Nevada. Comments on the DEIS are being requested from the public and must be received by March 5.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $5.98 million grant to the city of San Diego, California, to make stormwater infrastructure improvements needed to mitigate the impact of flooding on local industry. The EDA grant, to be matched with $5.98 million in local investment, is expected to help retain 2,000 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jesse Moses Escano, 22, of Fresno, was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to three years and three months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ronnie Charleston, 37, Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder, Jr. to possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, and being a felon in possession of ammunition. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: FARGO - United States Attorney Drew Wrigley announced that a federal grand jury has indicted Thomas Alexander Starks, age 30 of Lisbon, ND, for Damage of Government Property, 18 USC 1361. The Indictment was unsealed today alleging that on Dec. 21, 2020, Starks went to the downtown Fargo office of United States Senator John Hoeven and using an ax, caused substantial damage to the windows, intercom system, and doorframe. The monetary damages caused by Starks’ exceed $1,000.
By State Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a full committee nomination hearing for Antony J. Blinken to be secretary of State.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $956,858 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Lake Superior State University, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, to purchase lab equipment to build capacity at the Center for Freshwater Research and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: For Possession of Machineguns. SOUTH BEND -Joshua Ray, 29, of Elkhart, Indiana was sentenced, late last week, by United States District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio upon his plea of guilty to possession of machineguns, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Bell. Ray was sentenced to 41 months in prison and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice today announced a settlement that will require Midwest Can Company, one of the largest manufacturers of portable fuel containers in the United States, to pay a $1.7 million civil penalty to resolve Clean Air Act violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Jeffrey Lowe and Tiger King LLC Ordered to Relinquish Big Cat Cubs to United States for Placement in Suitable Facilities.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Arkansas, Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management Ely District in January finished aerially seeding nearly all of the 8,268 acres of the public and private lands burned in last June’s Brown Fire, south and east of Lund, Nev.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Tennessee State Senator Katrina Robinson, 40, has been federally charged in a new case, along with two other co-defendants, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the unsealing of the new federal criminal complaint today.
