News from July 2021
By USDA Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision against Pete Blayne Burkhalter, doing business as 4B Cattle of Springtown, Texas, on June 14, 2021, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal jury convicted Jourden Tairee Shepard, 23, of Onslow County earlier this week on two counts of a three count indictment charging him with of (1) possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, (2) possession with the intent to distribute quantities of fentanyl and cocaine, and (3) possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Prior to trial, Shepard pled guilty to count two of the indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A second Burke County man has been sentenced to federal prison after admitting to operating an illegal pill factory from a residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: BOISE -Travis Richard Hampton, 41, of Glenns Ferry, Idaho, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 46 months in federal prison based upon his April 2021 guilty plea for the unlawful possession of firearms and the possession of unregistered silencers, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr., announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: Chinese National Sentenced to More than Three Years in Federal Prison for Attempting to Illegally Export Maritime Raiding Craft and Engines to China.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Miguel Freytes, 42, of Bristol, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine from Puerto Rico to Connecticut through the U.S. Mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: Seven pounds of meth; firearms found at residence.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: (MISSOULA, Mont.) - Due to a wildfire burning about a mile east of Garnet Ghost Town, the Bureau of Land Management has temporarily closed the historic site and surrounding area for public safety and to allow firefighters to conduct suppression activities.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: NORTHBROOK, IL - A federal court has approved the settlement of a U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration whistleblower investigation that determined a Northbrook waste management company violated federal law when it retaliated against a former truck driver who reported a workplace injury and raised concerns to the company that an unrepaired truck was unsafe to operate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: DUBLIN, GA: Thirty defendants are charged in a Laurens County methamphetamine-trafficking indictment unsealed in the Southern District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Clifton Lamar Dodd, 49, a federal inmate, has been found guilty by a jury in Lafayette of mailing a number of hoax letters to United States Senate post office boxes, Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced. United States District Judge James D. Cain, Jr. presided over the four-day trial.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: COPPER CENTER, AK - Federal subsistence registration permits for permit hunts in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve will be available starting Monday, July 26. Permits will be available for moose hunts in Unit 11 and a portion of Unit 12, a goat hunt in Unit 11, and sheep hunts for people...
By State Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment charging Robert Bearden, 49, of Chesterland, Ohio, with three counts of wire fraud and one count of theft of government funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: DUBLIN, GA: Thirty defendants are charged in a Laurens County methamphetamine-trafficking indictment unsealed in the Southern District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: Former Police Detective and FBI Task Force Officer Convicted of Bribery and Other Offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Donald Mark Tillotson, of Burlington, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STEVEN WHITTICK, the former treasurer of the Law Enforcement Employees Benevolent Association (“LEEBA") and an officer with the New York City (the “City") Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP"), pled...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Ellison C. Travis announced that Chief U.S. Judge Shelly D. Dick has sentenced the final two defendants to federal prison following their convictions for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 16, 2021
Release: Congressman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Chair of the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Appropriations Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2022 Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies bill.
