News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota and its federal law enforcement partners, including the FBI, ATF, U.S. Marshals and Homeland Security Investigations, will devote all our resources to protect public safety throughout the State of Minnesota in the coming days. Federal law enforcement...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - Inyo County Sheriff’s Office and the National Park Service report an accidental death of a man at Saline Valley Warm Springs on Dec. 20, 2020. Donald Vanneman III was a 63-year-old resident of San Francisco.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - A California man was arrested and charged yesterday in connection with the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, January 6, 2021.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: SEATTLE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers removed a convicted child sexual predator and illegally present criminal alien to El Salvador Tuesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on charges of drug and firearm possession.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: HANCOCK, Md. - Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park has replaced the bridge span at Little Tonoloway Day Use and Recreation Area and will reopen the crossing over the canal to traffic in the afternoon on Friday, Jan. 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging RALPH EDWARD CLOUD, JR., 36, with murder in the second degree. CLOUD made his initial appearance today before Magistrate Judge Jon T. Huseby in U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: PRICE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Price Field Office (PFO) is seeking public input to inform the San Rafael Swell Travel Management Plan (TMP). The San Rafael Swell planning area in central Utah covers approximately 44,218 acres in Sevier County, 1,110,165 acres in Emery County, and 2,575 miles of routes on BLM-managed lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Travis Lawrence Ferguson, 32, of Lincoln, was sentenced on Jan. 14, 2021 by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the record of decision for the Fuels Reduction and Rangeland Restoration Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement in the Great Basin. This record of decision provides for treatment of undesired vegetation communities within a 38.5-million-acre potential area that includes portions of California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. Jan. 15, 2021 - Due to a lack of recent precipitation and unseasonably warm temperatures, holiday weekend visitors to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks should expect to find little snow, if any. While this expands some recreational opportunities for those wishing to use hiking trails or picnic areas, it may come as a disappointment to those seeking a winter weather experience.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Billings, Mont. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Missouri Basin Region has selected Ryan Newman to serve as the Montana Area Office (MTAO) Manager in Billings, Montana. He succeeds Steve Davies who is retiring after serving in the position since December 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man was indicted today on a charge of narcotics distribution after he sold a kilogram of fentanyl to an undercover law enforcement agent in Fort Lee, New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: FALLS CHURCH, Va. - The Bureau of Land Management approved today Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC’s revised right-of-way application for the Mountain Valley Pipeline project to construct and operate a natural gas pipeline across National Forest Service lands in accordance with the Mineral Leasing Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Yesterday, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, reached out to Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Alex Azar, to express her strong opposition to sudden steps announced by the Department in the final days of the Trump Administration that undermine the independence of, and public confidence in, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jair Abraham Gil Valdez, 29, Tuscon, Arizona, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and distributing cocaine. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Man Charged with $5 Million COVID-Relief Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was arrested on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021 on charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with using stolen identities to fraudulently purchase MBTA passes.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Department of the Interior will issue a Public Land Order (PLO) Jan. 19 revoking the withdrawal of approximately 9.7 million acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) managed public lands in Northwest Alaska between the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and the Chuckchi and Bering...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Departamento de Justicia. Oficina de Asuntos Públicos. PARA DIVULGACION INMEDIATA. Viernes, 15 de enero de 2021. Líderes de Alto Rango de la MS-13 Son Acusados por Delitos de Terrorismo en los Estados Unidos. Este día, en Central Islip, Nueva York, se presentó una acusación contra 14 de los líderes de mayor...
