News from July 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Tyler Curtis, age 24, of Hampstead, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to the possession of more than 300 illegal images and videos of child pornography on his cell phone. Curtis was previously convicted of the promotion and distribution of child pornography in 2017 within the Circuit Court of Carroll County, Maryland and was subsequently required to register as a sex offender.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
Release: The open period to submit suggestions for fiscal year (FY) 2022 Plant Protection Act Section 7721 (PPA 7721) Plant Pest and Disease Management and Disaster Prevention Program (PPDMDPP) funding closes on July 23, 2021, at midnight Hawaii Standard Time. Through the PPDMDPP, APHIS provides funding to strengthen ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kanawha County man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today for federal gun crimes. Tevin Williams, 27, of Charleston, pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
News Release: Put-in-Bay, Ohio - The Memorial column at Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial will reopen to the public on Thursday, July 22 at 10 a.m. after an extended closure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
News Release: Defendant Illegally Entered U.S. Capitol and Into the Senate Chamber.
By State Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
Release: The United States commends the Kingdom of Morocco for its collaboration in repatriating Abdul Latif Nasir, a Moroccan citizen who had been held at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. Abdul Nasir is the first detainee to be repatriated to his country of origin during the Biden-Harris Administration.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has prepared a final environmental assessment (EA) that addresses the environmental impacts of releasing leaf-spotting fungus (Ramularia crupinae) to manage common crupina (Crupina vulgaris). After careful ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WALI MUHAMMAD, 46, of Branford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding Connecticut’s Medicaid Program.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, California July 19, 2021- As fire once again sweeps through the American West, an interagency report formally released today estimates that 7,500 to 10,600 large giant sequoias were killed in last year’s Castle Fire. This represents 10-14% of large sequoias in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
News Release: Federal and local law enforcement recovered more than a kilogram of cocaine, half a kilogram of methamphetamine, 14 firearms, and nearly $1.6 million dollars in cash during a drug bust at a two-bedroom home in southeast Dallas last week, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - On July 16, 2021, a South Florida federal magistrate judge ordered pre-trial detention for 37- year-old Lazaro Alfredo Ramirez-Alvarado, finding that he presents a risk of flight and danger to the community if released. Pursuant to the order, Ramirez-Alvarado will remain in jail, without bond, pending his trial on charges of possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking and possession with intent to sell cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
News Release: Defendant Also Pleads Guilty in a Separate Firearms Case.
By State Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C.- House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement on the Biden Administration’s announcement regarding the relocation of eligible Afghans and their families who are in the final stages of the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) process.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit woman who was caught in Wayne County with oxycodone in 2016 was sentenced today to three years in federal prison. Tuniesia Monique Adams, 43, previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that four men were indicted by a grand jury on federal charges for conspiring to distribute controlled substances and conspiring to break into pharmacies to steal controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - On Saturday, a federal jury convicted a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee of access device fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Jackson man was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison for brandishing a firearm in the commission of a business robbery, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - The U.S. Marshals intensified the search for a Michigan man wanted in a 2019 double homicide by adding him to the agency’s 15 Most Wanted fugitives list and offering up to $25,000 for information directly leading to his arrest.
By State Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2021
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart stated today that Lazarus Floyd, 44, of Taylors, has been sentenced to more than 22 years in federal prison, after pleading guilty to multiple drug trafficking and firearm-related offenses.
